From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #208 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Wednesday, January 13 1999 Volume 02 : Number 208 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 08:23:16 -0600 (CST) From: Paul M Watson Subject: DISAPPEARED NEWS (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 04:20:46 -0500 From: Ian Goddard To: dstern@copi.com Subject: DISAPPEARED NEWS DISAPPEARED NEWS - THE ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARE (c) (01/07/99) Ian Williams Goddard One of the more disturbing issues surrounding the TWA Flight 800 crash has been the claims made by some people that on the night of the crash they saw reports on TV that confirmed a missile hit, yet the reports apparently disappeared into an Orwellian black hole. NOW a news cameraman has spilled-the-beans on one of these disappeared TV reports, indicating that what people have been saying they saw on TV really was on TV. People have claimed they saw an interview right after the crash of an Air National Guard pilot as he stood on a tarmac in front of an aircraft where the pilot said the jet was hit with a missile and that Navy-missile exercises were being conducted at the time. Consistent with such an interview, the Long Island paper Suffolk Life reports [1]: "Long Island's Channel 55 cameraman James Hughes, said during an interview that he and another camera crew from one of the networks were at the airport when the C130 landed. The crew, he said, stated they saw a missile heading toward FL800 just before they witnessed the explosion. The C130 crew members were pulled away from the two camera crews by what Hughes said appeared to be their superiors and came back claiming they had seen nothing." This not only confirms TV-witness accounts of a truth-leaking interview of a pilot at an airport, but it also clearly indicates that the truth was known that night and, with the immediate censure of the pilots, it also reveals that a massive cover-up was activated immediately, which must explain why the media forgot about that explosive interview. (The C-130 was piloted by Col. William Stratemeier. Major Frederick Meyer, who said he saw a meteor-like streak, piloted an HH-60 helicopter. After retiring from the ANG, Meyer said that the first blast looked like "the detonation of an anti-aircraft shell."[2]) It would seem that if military command says forget that news, it is forgotten and any who remember it and/or who believe what those pilots said they saw are smeared by the GovtMedia as lairs, criminals, or nuts... as one who might have to be locked away. The evidence suggests military control of society. Maybe that's why the same week Pierre Salinger's report came out CNN reported [3]: "The FBI this week launched a criminal investigation, hoping to stop missile theorists." The government of a civil nation does not activate "criminal investigations" to "STOP THEORISTS" (!!), but the U.S. Govt does! MORE CONFIRMATION OF PILOTS INTERVIEW The sudden change of the pilots story is consistent with a report from Aviation Week & Space Technology [4] that the ANG C-130 pilot "said he had seen what appeared to be the trail of a shoulder-fired SAM ending in a flash on the 747," and then in the next issue, Aviation Week reports that the pilot had a sudden change of mind, now saying: "We did not see smoke trails [from a missile], any ignition source from the tail end of a rocket nor anything..." [5] And the media filmed the witness intimidation [1]: "The C130 crew members were pulled away from the two camera crews by what Hughes said appeared to be their superiors and came back claiming they had seen nothing." Anyone capable of rational thought can see (a) that the military pilots were pressured to say they did NOT see what they'd ALREADY said they saw, and (b) that this is prima facie evidence of a cover-up, and (c) specifically, a cover-up of a missile hit. If X says he saw a missile hit P, and then X gets a talking-to by superiors, and then X says he did NOT see a missile hit P, one of his two statements must be false and it stands to reason that it's the second. If the media taped those pilots changing their story under pressure and yet forget that event and portray those who believe there's a cover-up as nuts & liars, then the media are choosing to promote the cover-up. THE MAJOR MEDIA: VOICE OF THE MILITARY STATE If the media could forget about a widely-televised interview of military pilots saying FL800 was hit by a missile, pilots who are then quickly whisked away by superiors only to return saying they saw nothing, could we trust the major media to report it if someone with inside information contacted them with a major scoop? If they'd cover-up the former, they should also cover-up the latter. In fact, when James Sanders gave CBS a patch of the rocket-fuel-covered seat cushion [6] so that they too could test it, CBS gave it to the FBI instead and then assisted with the FBI's efforts to jail Sanders by spreading FBI disinformation about him. So when people say there could not be such a large cover-up since someone would come forward, it stands to reason that if someone with critical evidence did come forward and in so doing contacted a major media network to get his/her story out, the network would contact the FBI and then forget about the incident. STILL MORE DISAPPEARED AND CENSORED NEWS Speaking of news the media ignores, last September the agent who headed the FBI's "investigation" said that the "boats" below FL800 seen on the NTSB radar plot that the FBI cited the Privacy Act to conceal the identities of, were "Navy vessels that were on classified maneuvers." An outright admission by the top FBI agent of a cover-up, and recorded on tape! Would that make headlines? Not one. 100% black out! (See http://www.erols.com/igoddard/coverup4.htm) The evidence indicates that the major media operate as a team, advancing the agenda of the military-state. Consistent with that hypothesis is the fact that the day after FBI agent James Kallstrom called Hollywood director Oliver Stone a "bottom-feeder" for his plan to interview eyewitnesses of the FL800 crash in an upcoming TV program looking into the missile theory, ABC canceled the program. Other TV networks chimed in to denounce Stone's shameful effort to allow eye- witness accounts to evade the military black out, which the on-the-spot censure of the C-130 pilots proves went into effect on the night of the crash. In Closing... Our military-government may or may not have good reasons to keep the Navy maneuvers under the TWA 800 crash classified, but we as citizens do have good reason to hold up the light of free inquiry to the darkness of military-state secrecy: secret government endangers truth, freedom, and democracy. __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ [1] SUFFOLK LIFE: "Flight 800: Accident Or Terrorist Attack? - Part 4 Was There A Cover-up?" By Joey Mac Lellan. December 17, 1998. http://www.suffolklife.com/Top%20Stories/FL800_3.html http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1998/12/17/43518 [2] AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY: ANG Pilot: Jet Hit by Object. By David Fulghum, March 10, 1997. [3] CNN admits that: "The FBI this week launched a criminal investigation, hoping to stop missile theorists." http://cnn.com/US/9703/13/twa/index.html [4] AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY: Terrorist Fears Deepen With 747's Destruction. E.Phillips, P.Mann (7/22/96) p.20. [5] AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY: ANG Eyewitnesses Reject Missile Theory. By David Fulghum, July 29, 1996, page 32. [6] The Facts About the Seat Cushion J. Sanders Liberated: http://www.accessone.com/~rivero/CRASH/TWA/GLUETESTS.html FBI's Op: http://magnet.fsu.edu/~stalcup/synopsis3.htm Report On Some Of The Disappeared Evidence In The TWA 800 Case: http://www.erols.com/igoddard/coverup3.htm Recommended Site: http://www.angelfire.com/hi/TWA800 ************************************************************ Visit Ian Williams Goddard ------> http://Ian.Goddard.net - ------------------------------------------------------------ (+) Something can come from nothing, if, and only if, (-) (-) that something is equal to nothing ((-)+(+) = 0). (+) ____________________________________________________________ "[I]n any closed universe the negative gravitational energy cancels the energy of matter exactly. 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  - --------------B1E4E362193378A49F82B88B-- - --------------CE8487ADBC82A7E2EBEA0B74-- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:26:34 -0600 From: larry ball Subject: [Fwd: Bill of Rights Day] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------56627F98B3D6BB05092A99EE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit - --------------56627F98B3D6BB05092A99EE Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from dbeatty.worldweb.net (doug@[209.211.80.133]) by falcon.inetnebr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA24732 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:31:54 -0600 (CST) Received: (from doug@localhost) by dbeatty.worldweb.net (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) id SAA13250; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:31:53 -0500 Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:31:53 -0500 Message-Id: <199901102331.SAA13250@dbeatty.worldweb.net> From: jpfo@dbeatty.worldweb.net To: larry ball Subject: Bill of Rights Day X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by falcon.inetnebr.com id SAA04638 ALERT: Help A Political Prisoner Who Opposed "Gun Control" in=20 England If you are reading this alert, then you can help a man imprisoned=20 because he dared to publish and prove that "gun control" laws cannot work= . =20 Here is your chance to stand up for principle -- and it will cost you alm= ost=20 nothing. Philip Luty, an Englishman, was appalled at the British government=92s=20 response to a lone criminal=92s killing spree in Dunblane. Because the c= riminal=20 used a firearm to kill several people, the government took that opportuni= ty to=20 outlaw all handguns and privately owned long guns. That=92s right -- the= =20 British government outlawed all handguns and most long guns (except for=20 those held by police and military personnel). Philip Luty was opposed to gun prohibition. Philip also was fairly=20 handy with the tools in his workshop. To prove that outlawing firearms=20 cannot stop people (especially dedicated criminals) from getting firearms= ,=20 Philip set out to build a home-made machine gun. He built the gun using=20 common tools and readily available materials. He tested it safely and ne= ver=20 intended to harm anyone. Philip then wrote a book about how to build a home-made machine=20 gun. Of course, manufacturing and possessing a machine gun is highly=20 illegal in England, but Philip felt he was proving the futility of "gun c= ontrol."=20 He hired a man to take photos of the component parts and the machine gun= =20 itself, to be included in his book. Unfortunately, the photographer did = not=20 sympathize with Philip=92s cause, and informed the police of the whole=20 operation. The police swooped down with a SWAT team, but found Philip=20 missing. Nevertheless, they searched his home and found the evidence of = the=20 machinegun and its components and ammunition. Philip disappeared into=20 hiding. The police eventually captured Philip, and he was tried and=20 convicted for making and having a machinegun and ammunition. Philip had no prior criminal record. The judge acknowledged that=20 Philip had no evil or criminal intent, that he had made the gun as an act= of=20 protest. Even the arresting detective was willing to speak on Philip=92s= behalf.=20 To set an example to all would-be protesters, the judge sentenced Philip= =20 Luty to 4 years in prison this past Spring. Philip=92s attorneys appeale= d, but=20 lost. At the local prison, the authorities assessed Philip to be fit in securi= ty=20 category "D" which means "low risk." Category "D" prisoners are=20 appropriately kept in an "open" prison, with opportunities to work outsid= e=20 prison and even to visits to home on leave. =20 During the first four weeks of his imprisonment, Philip was moved=20 through five prisons. These moves put Philip at risk and highly stressfu= l and=20 disruptive to his mental state. Philip is not a hardened criminal. He h= as=20 considered suicide; he has lapsed into severe depression. =20 The prison authorities also did not treat Philip as though he fit in=20 Category "D". Instead, they erroneously (or deliberately) have treated h= im as=20 a "locksmith." Locksmiths are put in Category "B", a much higher securit= y=20 rating. Philip has never been a locksmith, and he could prove it. One o= f the=20 prison wardens apparently got the false notion that Philip was a gun-maki= ng=20 locksmith, and thus moved Philip to other, higher security prisons as soo= n as=20 possible. The false reputation has followed Philip throughout the system= . =20 Being in Category "B" means that he is confined with hardened dangerous=20 career criminals. The jailers insist on treating Philip as a high securi= ty risk,=20 when he is actually a political prisoner -- he never committed a violent = crime=20 or even attempted one. =20 Philip=92s family members have sought every legal and bureaucratic=20 means to downgrade his security rating to "D" so that Philip would not be= =20 treated like an axe murderer. The family has contacted members of=20 Parliament, for example, to no avail. =20 Philip=92s mother worked hard to try to either free Philip or to act lea= st=20 ameliorate the harsh conditions of his confinement, but the authorities t= urned=20 a deaf ear. She developed a brain tumor, and even when her condition was= =20 diagnosed to be terminal, the authorities would not even allow the harmle= ss=20 Philip to visit her before she died this Fall. Family members are asking for our help to pressure the British Home=20 Secretary (who is in charge of domestic affairs) to downgrade Philip=92s=20 security rating. Please, before you sign off today: **> send an E-mail to the Right Honorable Jack Straw MP, Home Secretary,=20 House of Commons, England. =20 **> Ask Mr. Straw to investigate why Philip Luty is being held in Categor= y=20 "B" prisons when=20 (1) Philip was originally categorized as Category "D", (2) Philip has no history of violent crime, and=20 (3) Philip is a political prisoner being punished to make a point, rather= than to=20 protect society. =20 **> Point out that the Labor government has promised to be a more=20 compassionate administration, and that Mr. Straw should show some=20 compassion to a young man being so severely punished for a non-violent ac= t=20 of political protest. You can E-mail Mr. Straw at Gen.ho@gtnet.gov.uk Or, you can fax Mr. Straw at 44 - 0171 - 273 - 3965 or 44 - 0171 - 273 = - -=20 2190 (You will probably need to dial 011 first -- ask your operator if = you=20 have questions about the procedure. The country code for the UK is "44" = as=20 indicated). =20 If you are interested in reading Philip Luty=92s Book, it is entitled "Ex= pedient=20 Homemade Firearms: The 9mm Submachine Gun" and is available from=20 Paladin Press, Boulder, Colorado=20 Click on http://www.paladin-press.com =20 JPFO is America's aggressive civil rights organization. How long will we wait before horror stories like this one are even more commonplac= e in America than they are today? You can help JPFO to destroy "gun contro= l". To learn more, visit our web site at http://www.jpfo.org , or call us at (414) 769-0760, or fax us at (414) 483-8435. =20 Sincerely, =20 The Liberty Crew at JPFO P.S.-- Please post this alert everywhere throughout the world! =20 =20 =20 =20 - --------------56627F98B3D6BB05092A99EE-- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 99 16:50:14 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Sara Lee Body Count Climbs (fwd) On Jan 10, JASPAR@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Reuters reported on Friday that "The number of U.S. deaths linked to bacteria- contaminated hot dogs and other meat products included in a nationwide recall has risen to eight." The CDC "said that six adults have died and two pregnant women have had spontaneous abortions since August because of [Sara Lee] meat products containing Listeria bacteria. More than 40 other people in 11 states have developed listeriosis, the illness cased by the bacteria." Eight dead and more than forty injured! Shall we call this the *Sara Lee slaughter?* Meanwhile, it was also reported that "Goldman Sachs food industry analyst Nomi Ghez said Friday she lowered her rating on food and consumer products maker Sara Lee ... from buy and removed the stock from the recommended list." Ghez said the deadly meat recall " ... is not likely to help the overall picture for the company's operations.'' On Thursday, there was more bad news for Sara Lee: "BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 1999--The stakes surrounding a product recall are extremely high and rising quickly. Sara Lee Corporation ... is facing precedent setting legal allegations of negligence. The charge arises out of a December 22, 1998 recall of hot dogs and other packaged meat products .. that allegedly could contain Listeria bacteria. This suit, regardless of its outcome, raises significantly the standard of responsibility to which companies will be held. Sara Lee also faces a pre-tax charge of $50 million to $70 million in the second quarter, ending December 26, 1998 to cover the anticipated cost of the product recall." Finally, on the same day (Jan. 7), the 1998 Food Awards were announced. Sara Lee's Golden Pound Cake (a new non-frozen, non-butter pound cake that can sit on the shelf for up to 21 days) was a given a "Double Forks Down" award--a designation as one of the worst new food products introduced in 1998. *Sarah Lee foods have killed and injured more people than my handguns.* [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- 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, 13 Jan 99 10:32:16 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Fw: EIA Communique - 1/11 (fwd) On Jan 13, Kevin McGehee wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] - -----Original Message----- From: EducIntel@aol.com To: EducIntel@aol.com Date: Monday, January 11, 1999 11:39 AM Subject: EIA Communique - 1/11 The Education Intelligence Agency COMMUNIQU=C9 =97 January 11, 1999 + Last August 17, EIA reported on a workshop for teachers and school officials in Pinellas County, Florida, which offered tips for dealing wit= h African-American male students. The tips included such statements as "Bla= cks tend to be expressive and emotional. As they become excited they become louder. This does not mean they are becoming aggressive." One of the ques= tions I raised: "Are these insights or stereotypes?" The question came to mind = again as I read about the teach-in controversy in Oakland. To bring you up-to-date: The Oakland school district approved a voluntary teach-in (to be held this Thursday) sponsored by members of the Oakland Education Association concerning what role race plays in capital punishme= nt. The centerpiece of the lesson will the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted= in 1982 of murdering police officer Daniel Faulkner in Philadelphia. The cas= e has become a cause c=E9l=E8bre for the American left-wing, who believe Mumia = to be innocent. The organizers claimed the lessons will be balanced, then acknowledged th= ere are no pro-capital punishment materials in the lesson plans. Mumia appear= s prominently in the materials, but neither his crime nor Officer Faulkner'= s name is mentioned. The teach-in is also in jeopardy due to the murder yesterday of Oakland Police Officer James Williams by an unidentified gun= man. "I think it would be really insensitive to proceed with this considering = the shooting of one of our local police," said School Board President Noel Ga= llo. "Our students are predominantly African American, and I think we have a responsibility to prepare them for things they will encounter in the worl= d," said Bob Mandel, a teacher who is one of the prime movers behind the teac= h-in. Putting Mumia and capital punishment aside, what are we to make of Mandel= 's statement? What are the consequences of teaching black children they need= to know more about prison than white children? And what racial message does = that send to white children? On one coast a teacher receives death threats for reading from a children's book called "Nappy Hair," and on the other coas= t some teachers want to teach African-American children they have a one in = four chance to go to prison. Which is more harmful? "Students don't need to know about prison. They need to know how to read = and write," said Shannon Reeves, president of the Oakland chapter of the NAAC= P, adding that Mandel is "a misguided liberal." Perhaps school officials wil= l compromise with a teach-in about Officer Williams =97 his life, his devot= ion to duty, and his example to students of all races. I'm not holding my breath. + Oakland not only has a problem with capital punishment, but with corpo= ral punishment. Activist Jordan Riak is petitioning the city council to make Oakland a "no spanking zone." Couple these events with the election of Je= rry Brown as mayor, and Berkeley is beginning to look staid in comparison. + One of the symbols of the capital punishment debate is the candlelight vigil. Teachers in western Washington State have co-opted the symbol for = a worthier cause =97 higher salaries. Last night, organizers from the Washi= ngton Education Association's Riverside UniServ Council placed people with cand= les along the overpasses on Interstate 5 to call attention to their tragic national ranking of 19th on the teacher salary scale. + Public Agenda released its latest survey, but don't expect NEA, AFT or= the American Association of School Administrators to be lauding its findings.= In general, the survey shows a huge opinion gap between employers and parent= s on the one hand, and teachers on the other (college professors mostly split = the difference). Healthy majorities of parents and employers endorsed reconstitution of failing schools and tying financial incentives to stude= nt improvement. Teachers oppose these measures by vast majorities. Only 33% = of employers think local public schools are doing a good job, compared to 76= % of parents and 92% of teachers. But, according to the report, "Parents read= ily admit having limited knowledge on specific questions of academic quality = and how their children and schools are performing compared with others." One = more interesting point: Asked if principals should be held accountable for improving their schools, 33% of teachers agreed. When the word "teachers" replaced "principals" in the question, support among teachers dropped to = 22%. + The Massachusetts Teachers Association has brought out the long knives = for State Rep. Hal Lane (D- Holden), a former high school principal and House chair of the legislature's Joint Committee on Education. Lane introduced = a bill that would make teachers eligible for tenure after five years (inste= ad of the current three), allow dismissals after two unsatisfactory annual evaluations, and remove a number of topics from the purview of collective bargaining. MTA appointed a special task force to plan a "grassroots camp= aign to stop the attacks on teachers and public education and to promote MTA's legislation to help improve student achievement and enhance teacher quali= ty." High on MTA's list: "competitive salaries to attract and retain highly qualified teachers." + Always bubbling underneath, resentment about class-size reduction has = begun to appear on the surface among California's intermediate grade teachers w= ho have classes of 30 students or more. There is virtually no chance the pro= gram will be expanded to include them, and their compensation and prep time re= mains the same as their less burdened colleagues. The Saddleback Valley Educato= rs Association wants to negotiate a $500 stipend for teachers with class enrollments over 33. But salary differentials of any kind still hit a raw nerve among some union officials. "I think that pits one teacher against another," said Day Higuchi, president of United Teachers Los Angeles. + Hats off to reporter Mike Bowler for his "Nine myths about education" = in last Wednesday's Baltimore Sun. Among the myths: Poor urban districts spe= nd less per-pupil than suburban districts, and schools are making steady pro= gress in hiring black teachers. "Like it or not," wrote Bowler, "the teaching f= orce in America is dominated by middle-age, white females." Sounds vaguely familiar... + The New Jersey Supreme Court began to hear arguments in State Senator J= ohn Lynch's defamation suit against the New Jersey Education Association. Lyn= ch, a Democrat, was Senate president in 1991 when he introduced a bill which wo= uld have capped salary hikes for teachers. That fall, NJEA ran a newspaper ad calling Lynch "The Boss of Bosses," claiming he controlled three mob-owne= d companies that were illegally dumping toxic waste. Lynch won re-election,= but sued NJEA anyway. Union officials calling politicians mobsters? There's a switch. + Quote of the Week: "About one-half of 1 percent of California teachers= have met the challenge." =97 California Gov. Gray Davis, informing the public = that 130 of 264,000 state teachers are nationally certified. Daniel Weintraub = of the Orange County Register pointed out that the governor was off by a fac= tor of ten. The numbers cited are one-twentieth of 1 percent. # # # The Education Intelligence Agency conducts public education research, ana= lysis and investigations. Director: Mike Antonucci. Ph: 916-422-4373. Fax: 916-392-1482. E-Mail: EducIntel@aol.com [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- 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, 13 Jan 99 10:33:33 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: HR 109 (fwd) On Jan 13, Bill Campbell wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 06:11:13 -0800 From: Ken Houghton To: kclp@ix.netcom.com (kclp Mailing List) Subject: kclp: HR 109 To better regulate the transfer of firearms at gun shows. (Introduced in the House) HR 109 IH 106th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 109 To better regulate the transfer of firearms at gun shows. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 6, 1999 Mr. BLAGOJEVICH (for himself, Mr. CASTLE, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. STARK, Mr. KENNEDY of Rhode Island, Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, Mr. NADLER, Mrs. MORELLA, Mr. LIPINSKI, Ms. KILPATRICK, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. OLVER, Mrs. MALONEY of New York, Mr. UNDERWOOD, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. MARKEY, Ms. DELAURO, Ms. CHRISTIAN-GREEN, Mr. FORD, Ms. CARSON, Mr. CONYERS, Ms. LEE, and Ms. LOFGREN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To better regulate the transfer of firearms at gun shows. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. REGULATION OF GUN SHOWS. (a) IN GENERAL- Section 923 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: `(m)(1) A person shall not hold a gun show unless-- `(A) the person is licensed to do so under this subsection; and `(B) at least 30 days have elapsed since the person, using a form which shall be prescribed by the Secretary, has notified the Secretary and the chief law enforcement officer of the postal address and the dates and times at which the gun show is to be held. `(2) A person desiring to be licensed to hold a gun show shall submit to the Secretary an application which-- `(A) contains a certification by the applicant that-- `(i) the applicant meets the requirements of subparagraphs (A) through (D) of subsection (d)(1); and `(ii) any gun show to be conducted under the license is not prohibited by State or local law, and will be conducted in accordance with the requirements of State and local law; `(B) contains a photograph and fingerprints of the applicant; and `(C) is in such form as the Secretary shall by regulation prescribe. `(3)(A) The Secretary shall approve an application submitted pursant to paragraph (2) which meets the requirements of paragraph (2). On approval of the application and payment by the applicant of such fee as the Secretary shall establish to ensure that the fees collected under this subsection are sufficient to cover the costs of issuing licenses under this subsection, the Secretary shall issue to the applicant a license which, subject to the provisions of this chapter and other applicable provisions of law, entitles the licensee to hold gun shows in interstate or foreign commerce during the 3-year period that begins with the date the license is issued. `(B) The Secretary shall approve or deny an application submitted under paragraph (2) within 60 days after the Secretary receives the application. If the Secretary fails to so act within such period, the applicant may bring an action under section 1361 of title 28 to compel the Secretary to so act. `(4)(A) Before a person not licensed under this section transfers a firearm at a gun show-- `(i) the person shall provide to the holder of the gun show written notice of-- `(I) the name, age, and address of the person and of the prospective transferee (or, in the case of a party who is a corporation or other business entity, the identity and principal and local places of business of such party); `(II) the serial number, make, and model of the firearm; and `(III) the date and location of the transfer; and `(ii) the holder of a gun show shall comply with the requirements imposed on licensed dealers by section 922(t) and subsections (g)(1)(A) and (g)(3)(A) of this section with respect to the transfer. `(B) Within 30 days after the end of a gun show for which a license is issued under this subsection, the licensee shall deliver to the Secretary all records or documents which the licensee collected pursuant to subparagraph (A) during the gun show. `(5) For purposes of this subsection, the term `gun show' means an event or function that is-- `(A) sponsored by-- `(i) a national, State, or local organization devoted to the collection, competitive use, or other sporting use of firearms; or `(ii) an organization or association that sponsors functions devoted to the collection, competitive use, or other sporting use of firearms in the community; and `(B) held at a location-- `(i) which is not specified in any license issued under subsection (b) or (c); `(ii) at which a firearm is offered for sale or transfer; and `(iii) at which 50 or more firearms are present, 1 or more of which has been shipped or tranported in interstate or foreign commerce.'. (b) PENALTIES- Section 924(a) of such title is amended by adding at the end the following: `(7)(A) Whoever knowingly violates section 923(m)(1) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both. `(B) Whoever knowingly violates subparagraph (A)(i) or (B) of section 923(m)(4) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both. `(C) Whoever violates section 923(m)(4)(A)(ii) by knowingly failing to comply with a provision of law specified in such section shall be punished as otherwise provided under this section for knowingly violating the provision of law.'. (c) EFFECTIVE DATE- The amendments made by this section shall apply to conduct engaged in after the 1-year period that begins with the date of the enactment of this Act. 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