ÿ(Continued from last file) House Bill 277, by Mr. Mazolli, January 5, 1993 To amend title 18, United States Code, to require a waiting period before the purchase of a handgun. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/HR544 House Bill 544, by Mr. Torricelli, January 21, 1993 To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the transfer of 2 or more handguns to an individual in any 30-day period. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/HR661 House Bill 661, by Mrs. Collins, January 27, 1993 To provide for the manufacturer, importer, or dealer of a handgun or an assault weapon to be held strictly liable for damages that result from the use of the handgun or assault weapon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/HR711 House Bill 711, by Mr. Gonzalez, February 2, 1993 To amend title 18, United States Code, to ensure that handguns are available only to persons with demonstrated knowledge and skill in their safe use, maintenance, and storage. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/HR737 House Bill 737, by Mr. Reynolds, February 2, 1993 To provide for the manufacturer or importer of a handgun or an assault weapon to be held strictly liable for damages that result from the use of the handgun or assault weapon, and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the excise tax on firearms and use a portion of the revenues from such tax to assist hospitals in urban areas to provide medical care to gunshot victims who are not covered under any health plan. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/HR893 House Bill 893, by Mr. Gutierrez, February 16, 1993 To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the possession or transfer of assault weapons. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/HR1025 House Bill 1025, by Mr. Schumer, February 22, 1993 To provide for a waiting period before the purchase of a hadgun, and for the establishment of a national instant criminal background check system to be contacted by firearms dealers before the transfer of any firearm. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/HR1276 House bill 1276, by Mr. Bartlett, March 10, 1993 To establish the right to obtain firearms for security, and to use firearms in defense of self, family, or home, and to provide for the enforcement of such right. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/S108 Senate Bill 108, by Mr. Moynihan, January 21, 1993 To prohibit the importation of semiautomatic assault weapons, large capacity ammunition feeding devices, and certain accessories. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/S109 Senate Bill 109, by Mr. Moynihan, January 21, 1993 To amend section 923 of title 18, United States Code, to require the keeping of records with respect to dispositions of ammunition, and to require a study of the use and possible regulation of sales of ammunition. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/S178 Senate Bill 178, by Mr. Moynihan, January 21, 1993 To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the manufacture, transfer, or importation of .25 caliber and .32 caliber and 9 millimeter ammunition. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/S179 Senate Bill 179, by Mr. Moynihan, January 21, 1993 To tax 9 millimeter, .25 caliber, and .32 caliber bullets. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/S376 Senate Bill 376, by Mr. Lautenberg, February 16, 1993 To prohibit the transfer of 2 or more handguns to an individual in any 30-day period. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/S414 Senate Bill 414, by Mr. Metzenbaum, February 24, 1993 To amend title 18, United States Code, to require a waiting period before the purchase of a handgun. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/S441 Senate Bill 441, by Mr. Campbell, February 25 1993, To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a mandatory minimum sentence for the unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, a fugitive from justice, a person who is addicted to, or an unlawful user of, a controlled substance, or a transferor or receiver of a stolen firearm, to increase the general penalty for violation of Federal firearms laws, and to increase the enhanced penalties provided for the possession of a firearm in connection with a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime, and for other purposes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/S458 Senate Bill 458, by Mr. SMITH, February 25, 1993 To restore the second Amendment Rights of all Americans. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/S488 Senate Bill 488, by Mr. Spector, March 3, 1993 To provide Federal penalties for drive-by shootings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/S496 Senate Bill 496, by Mr. Simon, March 3, 1993 To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to strengthen Federal standards for licensing firearms dealers and heighten reporting require- ments, and for other purposes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/S504 Senate Bill 504, by Mr. Kohl, March 4, 1993 To amend section 924 of title 18, United States Code, to make it a Federal crime to steal a firearm or explosives in interstate or foreign commerce. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/S639 Senate Bill 639, by Mr. DeConcini, March 23, 1993 To make unlawful the possession of certain assault weapons, to establish a Federal penalty for drive-by shootings, and for other purposes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/S653 Senate Bill 653, by Mr. Metzenbaum, March 25, 1993 To prohibit the transfer or possession of semiautomatic assault weapons, and for other purposes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: Congress/103rd/S868 Senate Bill 868, by Mrs. Murray, May 4, 1993 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the tax on handguns and assault weapons, to increase the license application fee for gun dealers, and to use the proceeds from those increases to pay for medical care for gunshot victims. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: gun-free-zones Text of the GUN FREE SCHOOL ZONES ACT OF 1990 from PUBLIC LAW 101-647 NOV. 29, 1990 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: aclu A collection of articles on the ACLU's position on gun control. Included is ACLU Policy Statement #47 which gives the ACLU interpretation of the Second Amendment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: dcm-info A collection of articles explaining the Civilian Marksmanship Program. In other words, "Why does the United States Department of Defense sell battle rifles to civilians ? " ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: dial911 "Dial 911 and Die!" By Aaron Zelman and Jay Simkin of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: fija-info The Fully Informed Jury Amendment, and what it means to gun owners and the right to keep and bear arms. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: whitemanslaw White Man's Law by William R. Tonso, from the December 1985 Reason magazine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: jefferson The First Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson, 2nd president of the United States. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: jewishistory Jewish History Rufutes Gun Control Activists, by Elliot Rothenberg from the February 1988 *American Rifleman*. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: law-abiding The Law-Abiding Gun Owner as Domestic and Acquaintance Murderer from "Guns, Murders, and the Constitution: A Realistic Assessment of Gun Control," by Don B. Kates, February, 1990, pp.45-49. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: second-ideology "The Second Amendment and the Ideology of Self-Protection" by Don B. Kates, Jr. Reprinted from CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY, Vol. 9. No. 1. Winter 1992, (c) 1992 by Constitutional Commentary, Kates puts the Second Amendment and philosophies of self-protection into a historical perspective ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: new-understa Toward a New Understanding of the Second Amendment, by David T. Hardy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: to-bear-arms "To Bear Arms for Self Defense: Our Second Amendment Heritage" by Stephen P. Halbrook. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: no-treason No Treason, The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: resistance Excerpts from the study "Crime Control Through the Use of Armed Force", by Associate Professor Dr. Gary Kleck, Florida State University School of Criminology, published in the February 1988 issue of SOCIAL PROBLEMS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: waitper-qna Waiting Period -- Questions and Answers by Handgun Control, Inc. (HCI) and Citizens for Safe Government (CSG) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: warsaw "The Warsaw Ghetto; 10 Handguns Against Tyranny", by Dr. David I Caplan from February, 1988 American Rifleman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: wethepeople Supreme Court interpretations of the Second Amendment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: sc-ftp How to retreive Supreme Court decisions via anonymous ftp. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: alternative-policy ALTERNATIVE POLICY FUTURES by Franklin E. Zimring from THE ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE. Volume 455, May 1981; published by The American Academy of Political and Social Science; 1981. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: embarassing.2nd.amendment The Embarassing Second Amendment by Sanford Levinson, Yale Law Journal Volume 99, pp 637-659 (1989) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: nra800 Phone numbers for the NRA, many are toll-free 800 numbers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: nradrugs A collection of articles on the NRA's position on the War on Drugs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: fl-aw-part1 Florida A.W. Commission - Exec Summary Part 1, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: fl-aw-part2 Florida A.W. Commission - Exec Summary Part 2, STOCKTON -- THE FACTS by Martin L. Fackler, MD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: iwba Information about the International Wound Ballistics Association, Martin Fackler, president ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: gunshyjudges Gun-Shy Judges by Jacob Sullum, from the May 1991 issue of Reason Magazine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: heatofmoment In the Heat of the Moment, By James D. Wright ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: racist-soil Article "Gun Control Sprouts from Racist Soil." by Roy Innis, from the Wall Street Journal 11/21/91 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: core-policy "Bearing Arms for Self-Defense -- A Human and Civil Right" by Roy Innis, National Chairman, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: righttobear The Right to Bear Arms By Sanford Levinson from the Daily News, Ft Walton Beach, FL. (1991) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: rock-island United States of America v. Rock Island Armory, US District Court for the Central District of IL; the court ruled that making a post '86 machine gun is not subject to the NFA tax rules. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: dalton United States of America v. John William Dalton, US Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, 91-1149; the court ruled that owning or transferring a post '86 machine gun is not subject to the $200 NFA transfer tax. File: dalton-appeal United States of America, v. John William Dalton, US Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, 92-1264; the court ruled that the criminal penalties for owning or tranferring a post '86 machine gun still apply. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: waitdanger Why Gun Waiting Periods Threaten Public Safety By David B. Kopel, March 25, 1991 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: wait_1.4.ps File: wait_2.4.ps File: wait_3.4.ps File: wait_4.4.ps A postscript version of "Why Gun Waiting Periods Threaten Public Safety" ÿ (continued next file)