Gun law in Nevada: agents yield to a man called Bundy

Washington politicians on the spot as cowboys and militiamen team up to drive the law out of town

Cliven Bundy
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HAS a 67-year-old Mormon cowboy brought gun law back to the American West?

Cliven Bundy was in the saddle yesterday out in the desert scrub near Mesquite, Nevada, 80-odd miles north of Las Vegas, inspecting his cattle and savouring victory in a confrontation which has brought federal authorities to the brink of a shoot-out with armed militiamen of the far right.

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Charles Laurence is a US correspondent for The Week.co.uk. He is a former New York bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph. He divides his time between Manhattan and Woodstock, upstate New York.