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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Rappahannock News Special Writer
From reading the papers one would think that the only business before the 1998 General Assembly session has been gun control.
Day after day the issue has made the front pages of newspaper in Virginia and Washington. And you know you have a mega-issue on your hands when Ann Landers urges state legislators to support gun con7 trol and President Clinton mentions it prominently in a televised town meeting.
Seldom has a single story been so dominant in a legislative session, at least not since the long ago days of massive resistance.
As of this writing, the saga continues though there is a fairly certain prospect that a bill will emerge that can be considered a major victory for the Wilder administration over the NRA and other interest groups who have been battling tooth and nail against any new forms of gun control.
But enough has been written about the gun legislation without rehashing it here. The point is that state lawmakers somehow managed to introduce an incerdible 2,800 or more other bills and resolutions dur
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