Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 15:10:09 -0700 From: spooner@gbis.com (Rick Tompkins/Kathy Harrer) Subject: [lpaz-discuss] Gun Show Bill Secrets Found To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com Reply-To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com
>Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 11:16:53 -0700
>From: Alan Korwin <alan@bloomfieldpress.com>
>Reply-To: alan@bloomfieldpress.com
>Organization: Bloomfield Press
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>To: Alan Korwin <alan@bloomfieldpress.com>
>Subject: Gun Show Bill Secrets Found
>
>(Please see our NEW ADDRESS at end of report)
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>
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>GUN-SHOW BILL IS NOT WHAT THEY SAY
>GUN-SHOW BILL IS NOT WHAT THEY SAY
>GUN-SHOW BILL IS NOT WHAT THEY SAY
>
>Re: S. 890, The McCain-Lieberman Bill:
>"Gun Show Loophole Closing and Gun Law Enforcement Act of 2001."
>
>
>Mass media publicity on the newly proposed gun-show bill is grossly
>inaccurate.
>
>The bill has almost nothing to do with what you've probably heard so
>far. The so-called "gun-show loophole" headlines are a minor detail and
>basically obscure what the bill really does.
>
>I've just finished studying the eight pages of legalese.
>Here is it what it calls for:
>
>1. Unprecedented federal control over gun shows nationwide -- perfectly
>legal gun shows become strictly outlawed without prior federal approval,
>licensing and registration of each show;
>
>2. Centralized federal licensing and registration of every gun-show
>promoter in the nation;
>
>3. Centralized federal registration of every vendor -- including
>non-gun vendors -- at any gun show in the country. In order for me to
>sell my BOOKS at a gun show I'll have to pre-register and prove who I
>am, or face arrest; a private individual looking to sell a single gun
>would be treated as a vendor under this law and must be registered even
>if the gun isn't sold;
>
>4. Centralized federal registration of EVERY PERSON who attends a gun
>show in America, whether or not they make purchases of anything at all
>-- you won't be allowed in without registering;
>
>5. Centralized collection of "any other information" on gun-show
>attendees, as determined solely by the Secretary of the Treasury;
>
>6. Imprisonment for attending a gun show and failing to give up any
>information required by regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury;
>
>7. Imprisonment of any gun-show promoter who fails to register a single
>vendor;
>
>8. Imprisonment of gun-show promoters who cannot prove they notified
>every person attending a gun show of the new rules, and obtained from
>attendees any information the Secretary of the Treasury mandates by
>regulation;
>
>9. Centralized collection of "any other information" the Secretary of
>the Treasury decides, by regulation, is necessary on vendors, attendees,
>and the gun show itself;
>
>10. Submission by gun-show promoters of vendor registration logs a) 30
>days before any gun show, and b) additional submission of updated vendor
>registration logs 72 hours before any gun show, and c) additional
>submission of vendor registration logs within five days of the closeof
>any gun show, under penalty of arrest and imprisonment for
>non-compliance;
>
>11. Identification of vendors only by use of federally approved photo
>ID that may include use of a social security number, electronically
>encoded data, or "biometric identifiers" such as fingerprint, voice
>print, retina scan, iris scan, or similar (as defined under 18 USC
>1028(d)(2));
>
>12. Creation of a new license (in addition to a gun-show-promoter
>license), similar to FFLs, for individuals who want access to the NCS
>national background check system for facilitating gun-show sales for
>private citizens;
>
>13. Regulations to be issued by the Secretary of the Treasury on the
>procedures, data collections, methods and implementation of the entire
>process to federally control gun shows, in addition to the requirements
>made by the proposed statute; such regulations will not be known,
>drafted or even suggested, until after the McCain-Lieberman law is
>enacted;
>
>14. The proposed bill also puts pressure on state governments to make
>at least 95% of their law enforcement records for the past 30 years
>openly available to the federal government; and
>
>-- makes unlimited funds available for the states to comply with these
>federal goals;
>
>-- requires annual federal review of states' compliance;
>
>-- increases penalties (up to ten years imprisonment) for record-keeping
>violations;
>
>-- grants states permission to make even more restrictive requirements
>without being out of compliance with these new federal laws (and by
>implication, puts states that resist these rules in federal trouble);
>
>-- provides hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars for more law
>enforcement under numerous programs including project Exile and others;
>
>-- hires 200 more Federal BATF Agents;
>
>-- provides $10 million to the National Institute for Justice to give
>out for research on "technologies that limit the use of a gun to the
>owner"; and
>
>-- provides for annual reports (in great detail) by the Attorney General
>to Congress on whether the Brady law is working;
>
>15. Enlargement of the federal bureaucracy and appropriation from
>taxpayers of "such funds as are necessary" to license, register and
>monitor an estimated ten million non-criminals who attend the thousands
>of gun shows held annually in America; and
>
>16. Oh yes, I almost forgot about the so-called "loophole" part the
>media is so excited about -- the McCain-Lieberman bill will make an
>honest private citizen a criminal for transferring a gun to another
>honest private citizen, without first registering the transfer with, and
>getting permission from, the federal government (represented by the FBI
>at its data complex in Clarksburg, West Virginia).
>
>Transfer or possession of a firearm to or by a criminal (a "federally
>prohibited possessor") is completely unaffected by the McCain-Lieberman
>"loophole" bill, so I guess it's accurate to characterize it as a
>loophole bill.
>
>To sum up: Perfectly legal gun sales -- with no victims or criminal
>activity of any kind -- are outlawed at gun shows by the
>McCain-Lieberman bill, unless the sale is pre-registered with the
>federal government; real crimes are totally unaffected; and your friends
>in the federal government take over full control of gun shows -- which
>have been previously free of government infringement for more than 200
>years.
>
>Please write your local news outlet and politely request a correction.
>
>Permission to circulate or use any or all of this report is granted,
>provided my credit and contact information is included.
>
>
>
>Alan Korwin, Author
>Gun Laws of America
>
>Bloomfield Press
>12629 N. Tatum #440
>Phoenix, AZ 85032
>602-996-4020
>alan@gunlaws.com
>http://www.gunlaws.com
>"We publish the gun laws."
>
>
>NEW ADDRESS COMING!
>NEW ADDRESS COMING!
>
>WE'RE MOVING ON JUNE 1, 2001!
>WE'RE MOVING ON JUNE 1, 2001!
>
>Only the street address changes, on 6/1/01:
>
>4718 E. Cactus #440
>4718 E. Cactus #440
>4718 E. Cactus #440
>
>Everything else remains the same.
>
>
>
>GUNS STOP CRIME.
>
>GUNS ARE FOR SAFETY.
>
>GUNS SAVE LIVES.
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