71.   Last year, Bush signed legislation that prohibits Texas municipalities from suing gun makers without approval of the state Legislature.

72.   Letting municipalities sue gun makers.

73.   Many of the million moms may well be pleased that the gun makers are getting hounded in court.

74.   Mayor Edward Rendell met elsewhere Monday with gun makers to discuss possible lawsuits by the city to recoup from them the health-care costs of the shootings.

75.   Mayor Sharpe James of Newark, N.J., agreed that gun makers ought to be subjected to additional federal regulation .

76.   Moreover, it is too early to say if the gun makers are negotiating in good faith or merely stalling for time.

77.   Of course, George Jr. also signed laws allowing Texans to carry concealed handguns, and to protect gun makers from government lawsuits.

78.   Only a few lawsuits specifically charging that an accidental shooting resulted from the lack of a magazine safety have gone to trial, and gun makers have won them.

79.   Opponents said eliminating the policy would mean gun makers have no incentive to make safer guns.

80.   Philadelphia Mayor Edward Rendell said cities across the country are unlikely to file a joint lawsuit against gun makers to recover the cost of gun violence.