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The vote highlighted the urbanrural split over the issue but showed the bipartisan opposition for such restrictions, with state delegates Andy Guest, R-loth, and Jerry Wood, D-Mlst, voting against the tougher version. Guest had supported the compromise, which Wood op{K>sed. Del. Linda Wallace, R33rd, supported both the tougher version and the compromise.
The compromise would have allowed customers to buy more than one handgun a month, but only after receiving police approval in the form of a certificate of proof. Wilder had abandoned his tougher measure because he feared the General Assembly would reject it.
On Tuesday, the Senate voted for the compromise package, a move that compounds the controversial issue but one that Wilder allies nevertheless point out w ill lead to a onehandgun-a-month law that should go into effect July 1.
Senators H. Russell Potts Jr., R27th. and Kevin Miller, R-2f>th, both of whom had signed onto the compromise originally drafted by Senate and House Republicans, voted in favor of the compromise. The Senate vote w as 85-4.
See Guns, Page A-5
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