1.   In most areas, gun crime is linked to gang activity.

2.   The government must deal with the issue of gun crime.

3.   Voters are demanding tougher action on gun crime.

4.   Both the House and Senate versions include tougher penalties for gun crimes as well.

5.   A pitch to include mild gun-control proposals meant to cut juvenile gun crime has, as gun issues always do, split the GOP.

6.   But the NRA adamantly opposes new restrictions on gun owners, asserting that gun crimes could be prevented if existing laws were simply enforced.

7.   But they said the turnaround indicated that some new strategies to combat gun crime might be having an impact.

8.   But truly clamping down on gun crime would require more legislative action.

9.   By all accounts, Boyd, an expert in prosecuting gun crimes, played a key role in a landmark effort to reduce the murder rate in Boston.

10.   Dole gets a bit more specific with his call for mandatory sentences for gun crimes.