11.   Bush also opposes mandatory child safety locks on guns.

12.   But Hatch signed on as a co-sponsor of a Democratic amendment, to be debated next week, that would require the sale of safety locks with all handguns.

13.   But Mrs. Malner, who cleans offices at night, said that teen-agers like her son Jason would inevitably own and handle guns, so safety locks were useless.

14.   But, he said, they could come to terms on safety locks.

15.   Child safety locks are an appealing thought, gun-control skeptics concede.

16.   Democrats were also turned back in an effort to amend the bill to require safety locks for guns, an idea that the National Rifle Association has strenuously opposed.

17.   Dole has proposed some of the most far-reaching gun control ideas in the Republican field, calling for child-proof safety locks, among other ideas.

18.   For example, two Maryland counties passed laws this summer requiring every handgun sold to include a safety lock.

19.   Gun manufacturers could be required to put safety locks on guns.

20.   Gore also called on Congress to pass a law requiring child safety locks on guns and requiring background checks for people who buy firearms at gun shows.