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But the houses will be around awhile, and so will the controversy. Lane began the weapon sweeps in 1988, restricted them a year later to cases involving "immediate threat" after negotiating a court-ordered consent decree with the ACLU, then resumed them after armed gang members chased away repair crews dispatched by the housing authority from a project last August. That led to the restraining order that Judge Andersen has turned into an injunction. Lane says he will respect that ruling -- for now. But "if the circumstances that existed two weeks ago, when we heard 300 shots, exist again, I will search for weapons" -- warrants or no.