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Owner of Monster.com joins gun-control battle
By Associated Press, 10/2/2000
EW YORK - Monster.com owner Andrew McKelvey has joined in the gun control fight, sinking $12 million into a new group, Americans for Gun Safety, Newsweek reports in this week's edition.
But the group will not be a typical gun control advocacy organization. McKelvey said he sees his group falling somewhere in between avid gun-control supporters and the National Rifle Association.
The hope is to get both those on sides of the issue to rally around ''common sense'' solutions, such as tougher enforcement of existing gun-control laws and safer gun designs to prevent children from using them, McKelvey told the magazine.
The group will make its debut this week with television ads in Colorado and Oregon, where referendums on background checks for gun-show sales are slated this November.
McKelvey, who according to Forbes magazine is worth $2.1 billion, made the bulk of his fortune with Maynard-based Monster .com, the world's biggest online job-hunting and recruitment portal. He lives in New York City.
Americans for Gun Safety is nonpartisan. It has already reached out to more than 50 statewide gun violence groups with the offer that, if they become chapters, they will be given $60,000 a year to pay their staff and equip their offices.
Twenty-eight groups have signed on.
This story ran on page B7 of the Boston Globe on 10/2/2000.
© Copyright 2000 Globe Newspaper Company.
Owner of Monster.com joins gun-control battle
By Associated Press, 10/2/2000
EW YORK - Monster.com owner Andrew McKelvey has joined in the gun control fight, sinking $12 million into a new group, Americans for Gun Safety, Newsweek reports in this week's edition.
But the group will not be a typical gun control advocacy organization. McKelvey said he sees his group falling somewhere in between avid gun-control supporters and the National Rifle Association.
The hope is to get both those on sides of the issue to rally around ''common sense'' solutions, such as tougher enforcement of existing gun-control laws and safer gun designs to prevent children from using them, McKelvey told the magazine.
The group will make its debut this week with television ads in Colorado and Oregon, where referendums on background checks for gun-show sales are slated this November.
McKelvey, who according to Forbes magazine is worth $2.1 billion, made the bulk of his fortune with Maynard-based Monster .com, the world's biggest online job-hunting and recruitment portal. He lives in New York City.
Americans for Gun Safety is nonpartisan. It has already reached out to more than 50 statewide gun violence groups with the offer that, if they become chapters, they will be given $60,000 a year to pay their staff and equip their offices.
Twenty-eight groups have signed on.
This story ran on page B7 of the Boston Globe on 10/2/2000.
© Copyright 2000 Globe Newspaper Company.