11.   One in five Americans owns a handgun.

12.   One, a Marylander who owns two handguns, adamantly opposed guns for pilots, saying the cockpit is too small to allow a pilot to shoot.

13.   Polls show that most Americans think an average citizen should have the right to own a handgun.

14.   The arrests of Switzer and Iverson should spur the NFL, the NBA, and other leagues to urge athletes not to own handguns.

15.   The licensing requirement would be required only for new gun owners, not people who currently own handguns.

16.   Hubrecht was licensed to own the handgun, Taylor said.

17.   Rosenthal, the gun-control advocate who said he owns a handgun and shoots skeet, said guns rightly should be regulated.

18.   Under the proposed new rules, private citizens belonging to shooting clubs, would be allowed to own handguns but would have to leave them at their clubs.