"We're doing exactly what the gun advocates want," he said.

The bystander was killed, but gun advocates say he distracted the killer and prevented more deaths.

Forget gun advocates' contention that people, not guns, kill people, he says.

For instance, gun advocates hope the state's high court will interpret the amendment narrowly.

He talked about how much his daughter was going to miss Matilda and echoed the views of other gun advocates.

That organization is the largest group of individual gun advocates in the country.

The Republicans, fulfilling a campaign promise to gun advocates, introduced bills to repeal the ban.

Even worse ideas came from some participants in a countermarch staged by gun advocates.

They passed despite heavy spending by gun advocates and amounted to a popular rebuke to legislatures that had rejected such measures.

Outside Mr. Clinton's speech, gun advocates protested the president's visit.