
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 18, 1993                   TAG: 9309120284
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: METRO 
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GUN CONTROL

ON MANY issues - reforming health-care delivery and handling budget deficits, to mention two - state governments frequently are ahead of the feds in coming to grips with problems and fashioning responses.

In recent years, they certainly have been the trailblazers in gun control. Facing epidemics of gun-related violent crime, several states wisely decided to wait no longer for the foot-dragging feds. Among them is Virginia, under Gov. Wilder's leadership.

In the can't-wait spirit, Wilder has won a cooperative agreement from three other Mid-Atlantic states to join Virginia in its efforts to reduce illegal gun trafficking.

The pact, signed by Wilder and governors of Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware during the National Governors Conference, is similar to one Virginia entered into with New York last year.

Among other things, it calls for: setting up special interstate units to coordinate work on firearms cases; sharing information and participating in joint investigations to trace sources of i

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