On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 05:00:13 GMT, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 19:44:55 GMT, "Ed Huntress"
brought forth from the murky depths:

snip

Sorry, Gunner. Every one of those states, except for Vermont, has a list
of
"Prohibited Persons" who are not allowed to buy a handgun -- or a gun of
any
kind, in many states. The list ranges from felons, to people who have a
restraining order on them, to adults who were convicted of possessing pot
as
a kid, to people who are addicted to painkillers (Ohio), depending on the
state.

You forgot 2-year-olds, Ed. Cain't sell no guns to them, neither.
Ford was WAY off.


You can get the whole list compiled in one place from the DoJ's "Survey
of
State Procedures to Firearm Sales," which is compiled for several recent
years. If you can't find it, I'll send you a PDF file of it.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pubalp2.htm#ssprfs
Looks like an excellent site for cites. Gotta check it out.

Oh, yeah, that's a good one. I hope Gunner finds it. It could entertain him
for days. Maybe weeks!

Ed Huntress

Ive used a lot of data from the DOJ. One of the major problems with
them..is the data tends to be 5-9 yrs old and while ok for showing
trends when compared to data from other sources..it aint fresh.

Gunner

No 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound
woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil?
Is that wrong? People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence,
they're begging for the rule of brute force, when the biggest, strongest
animals among men were always automatically "right". Guns end that,
and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make
it work.
- L. Neil Smith