From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #322 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Tuesday, March 21 2000 Volume 02 : Number 322 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 00 16:09:00 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Message from Senator John Ashcroft (fwd) On Mar 10, john_ashcroft@ashcroft.senate.gov wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Dear Friend: During my tenure as a U.S. Senator, you have been gracious enough to share, via the Internet, your concerns and ideas about legislation pending before Congress. Thank you very much. Because of your interest and past communication, I wanted to let you know about a new poll question that I have recently put up on my website. The poll asks: Rather than having federal education dollars be controlled by the federal government, should these funds be directed by local schools, parents, and teachers to programs they believe will boost academic achievement for their students? I invite you to visit the website and register your response to the poll. You can simply visit http://ashcroft.senate.gov/poll.htm. You may also feel free to respond to the poll question by replying to this e-mail. To respond via e-mail, type either "Education Poll Yes" or "Education Poll No" as the subject line and do not include any text in the body of the e-mail. I also wanted to let you know the results of the previous poll asking: Would you favor a plan that ensures the Social Security taxes you pay would only be used to pay for Social Security benefits? 98% responded YES 2% responded NO I hope that you are able to stay in touch this year. I am grateful for your advice and counsel. Sincerely, John Ashcroft http://ashcroft.senate.gov Want to know what Washington is doing with your tax dollars? Sign up to receive e-mail updates from Senator Ashcroft at http://ashcroft.senate.gov/update.htm. Since John Ashcroft is standing for election this year, his website will not be updated from June 8 to August 8 and from September 7 to November 7. Senate Rules require that a Senate website not be updated during the 60-day period before a primary or general election. If you have any questions or need current information please contact John Ashcroft's office at (202) 224-6154. [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 10:20:42 -0500 From: "Patrick J. Fields" Subject: Response to your request for opinion. Senator Ashcroft, Having soberly reviewed our precious national Constitution, I find NO authority for the Union government to involve itself in the education of youth. This is the proper duty of the States and/or their Citizens, falling strictly within their authority ONLY! Now, I have discovered that while government's creation of FICTITIOUS PERSONS, principally through the nefariously misrepresented Social(ist) Security system, yields the legal(istic) means to carry out such Union 'authority', it wholly lacks moral rectitude when understood in reality. Therefore, in light of the above, I can not only stand diametrically opposed to federal control of education funds, but to the existence of such classification of monies and 'justification' for their collection, at all! In regard to your prior question of Social(ist) Security, ABOLISH IT! Any representative elected to any public office, who supports this Marxist institution without FULL DISCLOSURE of the abominable slave trap that it presents, is committing the very pinnacle of treason against the American People, every man and woman who has ever been called to the duty to protect sweet Liberty and the Founders of our (formerly) Free Republic themselves! A Son of Liberty, devoted to Mr. Locke's Glorious Revolution, I steadfastly remain ... Pat Fields Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, uSA packfields@worldnet.att.net All Constitutional Rights Reserved, Without Prejudice UCC 1-207 PS: We are free, ONLY if We choose to be. pps: The original 13th Amendment is Law On Mar 10, john_ashcroft@ashcroft.senate.gov wrote: > >Dear Friend: > > During my tenure as a U.S. Senator, you have been >gracious enough to share, via the Internet, your concerns and ideas >about legislation pending before Congress. Thank you very much. > > Because of your interest and past communication, I wanted >to let you know about a new poll question that I have recently put >up on my website. The poll asks: > > Rather than having federal education dollars be controlled >by the federal government, should these funds be directed by local >schools, parents, and teachers to programs they believe will boost >academic achievement for their students? > > I invite you to visit the website and register your response >to the poll. You can simply visit >http://ashcroft.senate.gov/poll.htm. You may also feel free to >respond to the poll question by replying to this e-mail. To respond >via e-mail, type either "Education Poll Yes" or "Education Poll >No" as the subject line and do not include any text in the body of >the e-mail. > > I also wanted to let you know the results of the previous >poll asking: > > Would you favor a plan that ensures the Social Security >taxes you pay would only be used to pay for Social Security >benefits? > > 98% responded YES > > 2% responded NO > > I hope that you are able to stay in touch this year. I am >grateful for your advice and counsel. > > > > Sincerely, > > > John Ashcroft > http://ashcroft.senate.gov > > >Want to know what Washington is doing with your tax dollars? >Sign up to receive e-mail updates from Senator Ashcroft at >http://ashcroft.senate.gov/update.htm. > >Since John Ashcroft is standing for election this year, his website >will not be updated from June 8 to August 8 and from September 7 >to November 7. Senate Rules require that a Senate website not be >updated during the 60-day period before a primary or general >election. If you have any questions or need current information >please contact John Ashcroft's office at (202) 224-6154. - - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 13:17:43 -0500 From: "Patrick J. Fields" Subject: The Price of Freedom Friends, Here's a simple example, which anyone can do with a $3.00 calculator, of what freedom costs when We allow socialist governments to 'provide for Us' in our old age. Presuming, at 20, that one plans to retire at 50, working at a decent lower class job or profession yielding (without government's Social(ist) 'Security' and resulting legal means to levy 'income' tax) savings of $50.00 per week ($2,600.00 per year) invested in 5 equity mutual funds yielding only the historic annual average of 10%. This humble waiter or bicycle mechanic should be able to settle down with about $437,236.36 or $14,574 per year of retirement if he lives to 80. Now, for those with a nice lower middle class office job who can reliably stick away $100.00 each week, they'll kick back with about $932,657.00 (and, with a 'free' spouse separately following the same wise course, just multiply by 2) or $31,088 of annual retirement through age 80. If you're curious about slogging through a full career (43 years), or a greater savings capacity, the formula is (S+Y)*1.1, where S is the sum total of savings, Y is the yearly total of savings and 1.1 is the multiplier to compound at 10%. (If you can program a spreadsheet, it's much easier to play around with lots of variables and is even more sobering than the two above examples) The point being, that when some ignorant friend, or a company manager whose savings could net in the millions, reverently defends government and it's iron pyrite Social(ist) 'Security', you might use this little illustration to help him see the chain on his leg and the other side of the hill where the 'Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave' exists. Pat Fields Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, uSA packfields@worldnet.att.net All Constitutional Rights Reserved, Without Prejudice UCC 1-207 PS: We are free, ONLY if We choose to be. pps: The original 13th Amendment is Law - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Mar 00 12:50:43 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [newsucanuse] March 5 columns -- blame schools, not guns (fwd) On Mar 11, RichSlick@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA EDITORS NOTE: A SHORTER VERSION, AT 850 WORDS, ALSO MOVES THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz Government schools: a deadly experiment It isn't really about race. It hardly suffices for the "multiculturalists" that the children of successful black judges and movie stars now go peacefully to school with wealthy white kids (for which equality under capitalism, let us give thanks.) Nor have they ever much cared that the main victims of their racial quotas (at least here in the West) turned out to be not "sons of slave-owners," but rather deserving Asians, whose forebears were also an oppressed minority. No, the goal of the "multiculturalist" movement -- a goal so dominant that even basic literacy is happily sacrificed -- is to infiltrate the American middle class with the offspring of the liberals' "new plantation," the fatherless welfare homes of our crime-infested inner cities. The result? A six-year-old boy -- passed from hand to hand since his father was jailed for a home invasion and finally living in a fatherless crack house full of drugs, stolen guns, and other loot -- shot a first-grade classmate to death in Michigan this week. Such crimes occur only in the mandatory government schools. In private schools -- where admission is selective and voluntary, and kids who stab each other with pencils are expelled -- such horrors are virtually unknown. Nor do we see home-schoolers committing such crimes (though the statists never tire of warning us home-schooled children will not be "properly socialized"!) This tiny killer is not some innocent who picked up an unfamiliar object and brought it to "show-and-tell." While on parole in December, his father, Dedric Owens, asked the child why he had committed violent offenses that led to his earlier suspensions from school -- suspensions at the age of six. According to Genessee County Sheriff Robert Picknell, "He said that the kid told him he did it because 'I hate them.' " Gee, where could the kid have copped that attitude, in a society where whites who victimize blacks because of their skin color receive "hate crime sentence enhancements," while racism is hardly ever mentioned in the prosecution of black murderers who declare "You're all white trash, racist pigs" (this week's guest quote courtesy of one Ronald Taylor, charged in Wilkinsburg, Pa. in the shooting deaths of three white males -- two others critically wounded -- after he apparently grew upset that white workmen worked too slowly repairing his broken door.) In the real world, tens of thousands more parents of children now interned in these squalid government camps -- operated more and more on the model of penal institutions, complete with body searches and metal detectors, properly preparing their little inmates for the police state of our future -- will now quietly move their kids into private schools, or finally resolve to homeschool their children, regardless of the financial sacrifice required. But since it's "politically incorrect," don't expect to hear about this swelling tide on TV. Instead, the national whining will be the usual, "Whatever can we do to rid ourselves of these dreaded guns?" The standard lie is that guns are more readily available and accepted these days, when in fact child gunshot deaths have been dropping for decades, and our nation is currently seized in a paroxysm of paranoia about these tools of freedom: Airport police now seizing the little plastic guns that come with Christmas G.I. Joe sets; while our banks (I mean Citibank, subject of a national boycott by the Second Amendment Foundation after closing the account of the Nevada Pistol Academy for being a "gun-related business"), insurance companies (like the ones that now refuse fire and liability coverage to Las Vegas pawn shops that deal in guns), fire marshals (I refer to the guys who now seek to ban "Cheaper Than Dirt" for selling ammo via mail-order out of Fort Worth, Tex., as that company has done for years), and even national shipping firms (let's hypothetically call one of them "UPS") either raise rates, cut off service, or threaten to arrest legal, licensed firearms dealers as though they were spreading the bubonic plague. Imagine the public sitting similarly silent if such a full-court press were now being applied to the First Amendment, making it progressively harder for private churches or newspapers to stay in business. This in distinct contrast to the peaceful 1950s, when fewer than half our kids finished high school (no "dropout crisis" perceived) and when -- as recalled by retired Las Vegas auctioneer Robert Deiro -- the basement of Frazier Hall held an armory full of M-1 Garands and a rifle range used for authorized practices and matches of Las Vegas High School's award-winning rifle team. Gun control has been tried. In Australia, criminals now more confident their victims will be disarmed have increased armed robberies by 44 percent. In England, where they finally finished banning civilian ownership of handguns completely last year, staid London newspapers now dub industrial Manchester "Gunchester," and the once proudly unarmed British bobbies complain they're completely outgunned by youth gangs who now simply stock up on fully-automatic AK-47 assault rifles, fresh out of the containers in which they arrive daily from Eastern Europe. To the extent that they do work, civilian gun bans lead to genocide, as Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership have exhaustively demonstrated. But apparently guns still make a handy voodoo doll in which our statist media can stick their pins, in preference to focusing on the real problem: the fact that fruitcake bureaucrats now control our children's lives from ages 6 to 18. There, in keeping with the flawed 1930s notion that there exist "a limited number of jobs" which must be protected for adult male heads of household (the same justification employed to pressure "Rosie the Riveter" out of the workforce in 1946, and to set earnings limits on Social Security beneficiaries, which goofiness the House of Representatives finally voted to overturn only this week) our children are rounded up, bored to tears, and increasingly treated like dangerous inmates until they end up acting like dangerous inmates. Take, for example, the reason I found myself talking to Mr. Deiro this week. He called to explain how his son, Guy Robert Deiro, who now runs the family auction business (and who just finished a two-year stint as president of the Boys and Girls Club of Henderson) decided to do a good deed recently, hiring a 17-year-old kid from a fatherless Las Vegas home to work as a runner -- driving contracts around town -- in his after-school hours, at $9 per hour. Because he hired the lad 28 days prior to his 17th birthday, the younger Mr. Deiro relates, the state Labor Department fined him $2,800 and threatened to add penalties of 6 percent per day for any additional days he employed the young man, unless the lad took a mandated $3,000 commercial driving course. "I had to let him go," Guy Robert Deiro explains. "He can't afford $3,000 to go to some dumb driving school. In addition to the $9 an hour, I was paying his car insurance, plus 21 cents a mile. I thought I was doing the kid a favor -- frying hamburgers and french fries is more dangerous than this job, and it was a way for him to learn the business, work his way up. It's absolutely absurd. It's big government getting in the way of people trying to hire kids and show 'em a work ethic." Yet let some such lad eventually turn to a life of crime as the only option left him by our meddlesome government masters, and what will we hear? "How could this have happened? It must be the guns." Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. His book, "Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998," is available by dialing 1-800-244-2224; or via web site http://www.thespiritof76.com/wacokillers.html. *** - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - - If you have subscribed to vinsends@ezlink.com and you wish to unsubscribe, send a message to vinsends-request@ezlink.com, from your OLD address, including the word "unsubscribe" (with no quotation marks) in the "Subject" line. To subscribe, send a message to vinsends-request@ezlink.com, from your NEW address, including the word "subscribe" (with no quotation marks) in the "Subject" line. All I ask of electronic subscribers is that they not RE-forward my columns until on or after the embargo date which appears at the top of each, and that (should they then choose to do so) they copy the columns in their entirety, preserving the original attribution. 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(fwd) On Mar 11, Weldon Clark wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] - ----- Original Message ----- From: Joseph Olson To: Cc: Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 4:10 PM Subject: Vote and repost NOW!!! Subject: Need help in 2nd Amendment Poll! Go to www.msjama.org and vote in their quick poll. Pass it on to your friends. This is a AMA poll and the anti-gunners like to quote their results. Let's win this one. **************************************************************************** Professor Joseph Olson Hamline University School of Law tel. (651) 523-2142 St. Paul, Minnesota 55104-1284 fax (651) 523-2236 [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 00 09:49:33 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: msnbc.com survey - please vote (fwd) On Mar 15, Nramancpe@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] <<< Please Vote in the survey >>> Question of the Day: The NRA says Clinton and Gore are playing politics with guns. The administration says the gun-rights group is without shame. The NRA's attacks on Clinton-Gore: A smear campaign or Fair game. http://www.msnbc.com/news/313533.asp [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 00 09:09:31 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: OT?: CLinton Disbarment news (fwd) On Mar 17, Bob Mueller wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000316/pl/clinton_scandal_2.html Clinton Asks to Delay Disbarment Consideration Reuters Photo By Deborah Charles WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton has asked that consideration of his disbarment from the legal profession in Arkansas in connection with the Monica Lewinsky scandal be delayed until after he leaves office, his private lawyer said on Thursday. Clinton lawyer David Kendall made the request in response to a complaint by the Arkansas Supreme Court's Committee on Professional Conduct, which called for Clinton's disbarment as an attorney over misleading statements he made about his affair with the former White House intern during a deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit. ``We have filed today with the Arkansas Committee on Professional Conduct an application for an extension of time for the President to respond, until 30 days after he leaves office,'' Kendall said in a statement. Clinton leaves office on Jan. 20, 2001. [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 00 19:12:02 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: rkba-list: Internet Tax Threat to Gun Owners (fwd) On Mar 17, AkaGUNNUT@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Message to Gun Owners: If you use the Internet, you have a direct financial stake in the developing battle to save the Internet from unnecessary government taxes on all purchases, including firearms, ammunition and related supplies. In the next few days a national commission will recommend to Congress whether the current ban on new Internet taxes should be extended. Powerful political forces are pushing to end this ban and tax the Internet. The commission members must hear from as many people as possible who oppose Internet taxation before they conclude their meeting on March 21, 2000. We have made it as easy as possible for you to do this. Our site, www.NoInternetTax.org (hot link) allows you to easily send a prepared message to all 19 members of this commission individually with a single click of your mouse. The site is filled with background information to help you more fully understand this issue. Please visit our site and e-mail the commissioners. It just takes a minute or two. It would also be a great help if you forward this message to everyone on your list who would also help defend the Internet. Thank you! Alan Gottlieb Chairman, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep & Bear Arms Founder, Second Amendment Foundation President, www.NoInternetTax.org [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 00 15:51:54 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Fwd: [AZ-RKBA] KABA 4-Minute Gun Report PM Edition 3-20-2000 (fwd) On Mar 20, C. D. Tavares wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] >From: KeepAndBearArms.org >March 20, 2000 -- 4 Minute Read >POLL: >Did Smith & Wesson do the right thing by bowing to government pressure and >agreeing to more safety measures for the guns the company produces? >http://www.desnews.com [Thanks, Bruce B.] Right now it's running 51-45-4 for No, with a little over 800 votes. Too close -- help out. - -- Tavares@alum.mit.edu | http://home.earthlink.net/~cdtavares | RKBA! What's the difference between the person who hits you and the person who ties your hands so that someone else can hit you? Whoever takes away your ability to defend yourself needs to be defended against. - --RICHARD ROBERTS [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 00 22:25:57 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Fratrum: Re: 50 Gun Bills in 6 Months ?! (fwd) You know the drill, check it out, pass it around, raise hell. On Mar 20, Huck wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] READ this and tell me they don't want our guns. When the guns go, so will our freedom. Huck spiker wrote: > From: KeepAndBearArms.org > > KEEP AND BEAR ARMS .ORG REPORT > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Subscription email broadcast available > from: http://www.KeepAndBearArms.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 50 GUN BILLS IN 6 MONTHS ! > Below, you will see a digest of 50 federal bills before the > house or senate in the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. > They were all introduced within a 6 month period. > I've had my ear to the ground full time during this same > time period. I didn't know about most of these bills. > But America is the land of freedom. > And full confiscation could never happen here. > And clinton doesn't lie. > angel > > Gun bills introduced in Congress > (50 of them in the last 6 months) > ---------------------------------- > You can look them up at: http://thomas.loc.gov > 1. Gun Show Accountability Act > (Introduced in the Senate) [S.443.IS] > 2. Gun Show Accountability Act > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.902.IH] > 3. Gun Show Accountability Act > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.1903.IH] > 4. Nationwide Gun Buyback Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.3255.IH] > 5. Nationwide Gun Buyback Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.2813.IH] > 6. Mandatory Gun Show Background Check Act > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.2122.IH] > 7. Gun Buy Back Partnership Grant Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.724.IH] > 8. To better regulate the transfer of firearms at gun shows. > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.109.IH] > 9. Firearms Rights, Responsibilities, and Remedies Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.1233.IH] > 10. Firearms Rights, Responsibilities, and Remedies Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.686.IS] > 11. American Handgun Standards Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.2009.IH] > 12. American Handgun Standards Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate) [S.193.IS] > 13. American Handgun Standards Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.2003.IH] > 14. Designating October 21, 1999, as a "Day of National > Concern About Young People and Gun Violence." > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.RES.158.IS] > 15. Designating October 21, 1999, as a "Day of National > Concern About Young People and Gun Violence." > (Agreed to by the Senate)[S.RES.158.ATS] > 16. The Youth Gun Crime Enforcement Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate) [S.995.IS] > 17. The Youth Gun Crime Enforcement Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.1768.IH] > 18. Targeted Gun Dealer Enforcement Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate) [S.1306.IS] > 19. Targeted Gun Dealer Enforcement Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.2443.IH] > 20. Gun Industry Accountability Act > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.560.IS] > 21. Gun Industry Responsibility Act > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.1086.IH] > 22. Children's Gun Violence Prevention Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate) [S.735.IS] > 23. Children's Gun Violence Prevention Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.1342.IH] > 24. To amend the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 to require a > local educational agency that receives funds under the > Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to expel > a student determined... > (Placed on the Calendar in the Senate) [S.44.PCS] > 25. Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 902) to > regulate the sale of firearms at gun shows. > (Introduced in the House)[H.RES.193.IH] > 26. To prohibit the possession or transfer of junk guns, > also known as Saturday Night Specials. > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.35.IH] > 27. Child Safety and Youth Violence Prevention Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.2037.IH] > 28. Youth Violence Prevention Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House) [H.R.1726.IH] > 29. To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act > and the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 to authorize schools to > apply appropriate discipline measures in cases where students have... > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.969.IS] > 30. Stop Gun Trafficking Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate) [S.407.IS] > 31. To encourage States to require a holding period for any student > expelled for bringing a gun to school. (Introduced in the House) > [H.R.1723.IH] > 32. To authorize the Consumer Product Safety Commission to regulate > gun safety, and to ban the importation or manufacture of handguns which > do not have certain safety features. (Introduced in the House)[H.R.2008.IH] > 33. Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1501) to provide grants > to ensure increased accountability for juvenile offenders, and for > consideration of the bill (H.R. 2122) to require... (Reported in the House) > [H.RES.209.RH] > 34. Gun Kingpin Penalty Act > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.1080.IS] > 35. Gun Kingpin Penalty Act > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.3057.IH] > 36. Gun Crime Prosecution Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.2081.IH] > 37. Juvenile Gun Loophole Closure Act > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.891.IS] > 38. Juvenile Gun Loophole Closure Act > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.2048.IH] > 39. To authorize the Consumer Product Safety Commission > to regulate gun safety, to ban the transfer of a firearm > to, or the possession of a firearm by, a person who has been > convicted of... > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.2007.IH] > 40. Gun Retention Act of 1999 (Introduced in the House)[H.R.735.IH] > 41. Military Sniper Weapon Regulation Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.2127.IH] > 42. Military Sniper Weapon Regulation Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.1774.IS] > 43. Gun Dealer Responsibility Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.1101.IS] > 44. Internet Gun Trafficking Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.1245.IH] > 45. Internet Gun Trafficking Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.637.IS] > 46. Second Amendment Restoration Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.407.IH] > 47. Concealed Firearms Prohibition Act > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.967.IS] > 48. Violent and Repeat Juvenile Offender Accountability > and Rehabilitation Act of 1999 > (Engrossed Senate Amendment)[H.R.1501.EAS] > 49. Child Safety Lock Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the Senate)[S.149.IS] > 50. States' Rights and Second and Tenth Amendment Restoration Act of 1999 > (Introduced in the House)[H.R.3444.IH] > > Ah, yes. 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Or contact your local HUD office March 18, 2000

HUD PREFERS GUN PURCHASES FROM COMPANIES ADHERING TO CODE OF CONDUC= T, CALLS ON MAYORS TO UNITE IN PREFERENCE FOR THE COMPANIES

WASHINGTON - Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo tod= ay announced he will direct the nation's 3,200 public housing authorities= to give preference in their gun purchases to any gun makers that adopt a= new code of responsible conduct. The new code, agreed upon Friday by Smi= th & Wesson and the Clinton Administration, will make guns safer and keep= them out of the hands of children and criminals.

In addition to covering gun purchases by housing authorities, Cuomo's = directive - to be implemented by regulation - will encourage the authorit= ies to apply the same requirement to private subcontractors that provide = security at housing developments.

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The agreement was signed Friday by state and local governments along w= ith Smith & Wesson and the Clinton Administration. Purchases by housing a= uthorities will have to be made consistent with all local, state and fede= ral procurement laws and regulations.

In addition, Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer, Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex= Penales, and Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell today joined Cuomo in calling o= n local governments around the nation to issue the same directive to thei= r police and sheriff's departments.

Action by local law enforcement departments to prefer gun purchases fr= om gun manufacturers that adopt the design and distribution standards wou= ld have a major impact. More than a quarter of all firearms sales in the = nation are to law enforcement agencies.

"It's in the interest of housing authorities, local governments and th= e American people to reduce gun violence and save lives, and our agreemen= t with Smith & Wesson will achieve these goals," Cuomo said. "Any company= that signs this agreement deserves our support and our business for acti= ng responsibly and in the public interest."

Local and state governments joined Smith & Wesson - America's largest = gun manufacturer - and the Clinton Administration in approving the code o= f conduct Friday. The local governments and the Clinton Administration ag= reed to drop pending lawsuits against Smith & Wesson as part of the agree= ment.

The following local governments have so far approved the agreement: Mi= ami-Dade County, FL; Los Angeles, Inglewood, San Francisco, West Hollywoo= d, Sacramento and Berkeley in California; Bridgeport, CT; Atlanta, GA; Ca= mden, NJ; St. Louis, MO; Detroit, MI; Gary, IN; New Orleans; Newark, NJ. = More of the 30 local governments with pending lawsuits against gun maker= s soon could decide to sign the agreement.

As a result of its approval of the code of conduct, Smith & Wesson wi= ll undertake a series of actions. Among these, the company will: 1) Inst= all mandatory gun locks and other child-safety devices on all guns. 2) In= troduce "smart gun" technology in all newly designed handguns. 3) Bar gun= sales - including gun show sales - without a background check of the buy= er. 4) Limit multiple handgun sales. Sixteen local governments and two st= ates have also approved the landmark agreement.

Kevin Marchman, Executive Director of the National Organization of Afr= ican Americans in Housing, said his group supports the code of conduct ag= reement and actions that encourage compliance with the code.

"By this brave action, Smith &Wesson has singled itself out for attack= by those who choose to shield themselves behind false arguments, rather = than accept common sense practices that both protect our children from ha= rm and our rights," Marchman said. "By enforcing new sales practices, Smi= th and Wesson is acting as a responsible corporate citizen and gun consum= ers should reward them for this action. We look forward to working with = the Administration and HUD in making this gun safety agreement universal.= "

The agreement was signed for the Clinton Administration Friday by Cuom= o and Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers. In addition, the agreement = was signed by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Connecticut Att= orney General Richard Blumenthal on behalf of their states. Smith & Wess= on President and CEO L.E. Shultz signed the agreement for the company.

The U.S. government will require any additional gun manufacturers join= ing in the agreement to meet all the requirements set for Smith & Wesson,= with the possibility of some additional concessions.

The agreement is the product of negotiations between HUD, the Treasury= Department and local governments with Smith & Wesson that were designed = to settle lawsuits already filed against Smith & Wesson and to make new o= nes unnecessary.

The agreement is designed to reduce the toll of gun violence, which an= nually claims over 30,000 lives and injures another 100,000 people in cri= mes, accidents and suicides around the nation.

A commission made up of two representatives from local governments, on= e from states, one from Smith & Wesson and one selected by the U.S. Burea= u of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms will oversee the agreement.

The Oversight Commission will have the power to notify Smith & Wesson = of any gun dealer violations. This notification will trigger penalties ag= ainst gun dealers by Smith & Wesson and the Commission that could include= barring dealers from selling Smith & Wesson products.

Smith & Wesson will also take action, including suspension or terminat= ion, against dealers responsible for a disproportionate number of crime g= un traces. This provision is designed to focus industry attention on the = relatively small number of current dealers that are the source of many gu= ns used in crimes. An estimated 57 percent of guns used in crimes are sol= d by just 1.2 percent of dealers.

Under the agreement, all guns must have child safety devices, include = internal locks, hidden serial numbers and pass stringent performance test= s.

Smith & Wesson will also devote 2 percent of revenues to develop "smar= t gun" technology and will equip all newly designed guns with such techno= logy within three years. "Smart guns" can only be fired by an authorized= person, making them useless in the hands of thieves or children who coul= d get hold of guns.

Other provisions of the agreement, which apply to Smith &Wesson and it= s dealers include requirements that:

  • No sales can be made until the buyer passes a background check.
  • Guns cannot be marketed to appeal to children or criminals.
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  • No sales can be made at a gun show unless background checks are p= erformed for all sales.
  • A purchaser can take home only one gun at the time of purchase an= d must wait two weeks to pick up additional guns. This is designed to pr= event illegal traffickers from buying large quantities of guns.
    • Within six months, packaging of new guns must include a warning o= n the risk of having a firearm in the home and suggestions for safe stora= ge.
    • Gun stores must have a security plan and guns and bullets must be= kept locked and separated.
    • Gun dealer employees must complete annual training and pass an ex= am.
    • Distributors can only sell to other distributors or dealers that = agree to abide by the agreement.
    • Smith & Wesson agrees to work with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco= and Firearms (ATF) to establish a system for firing each gun it makes an= d entering digital images of the casings into the National Integrated Bal= listics Identification (NIBIN) system and accessible by ATF. This will ma= ke it easier for law enforcement to trace bullet casings used in crimes b= ack to the guns that fired them.
    • Establishment of a trust fund by Smith & Wesson to implement a pu= blic service campaign to inform people about the risk of firearms in the = home, proper home storage, the importance of proper disposal and need to = reduce gun violence.

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