A recent letter stated that the 1993 federal handgun law, formerly known as the Brady bill, would not successfully keep guns out of the hands of hoodlums and that another bill was needed to keep bullets out of the hands of hoodlums.

Good suggestion. But answer this: If the new law won't keep hoodlums from getting guns, how is the next bill going to keep hoodlums from getting bullets?

The only way to keep hoodlums from using these illegal guns and bullets is by passing and enforcing stiff laws on violent crime and by making prisons uncomfortable places to be (elimination of entertainment, etc.).