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     April 25 Neal Knox Update -- Senate leaders from both parties
are huddling this morning trying to work out an agreement on the
Education bill.

     If they get an agreement it could be on the floor this
afternoon, with whatever amendments -- possibly gun amendments --
are agreed to during the negotiation.

     Because Sen. Jim Jeffords (Vt.) and other Republicans are
already lined up with Democrats, there will probably be an
agreement or it won't be called to a vote.  Without an agreement,
it will be a free-for-all which -- if it goes to the floor -- will
likely include gun show and other firearms amendments.

          Yesterday, Senate Democrats including Charles Schumer
(N.Y.), Jack Reed (R.I.) and Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) held a press
conference "introducing" a bill supposedly identical to the gun
provisions in the 1999 Juvenile Justice amendment.

     It includes the Lautenberg gun show amendment extending the
NICS background checks to private sales at gun shows, flea markets
and swap meets -- which the Atlanta Constitution said "authors of
the 1993 Brady Bill forgot to include."

     It is co-sponsored by 18 Democrats and one Republican, Lincoln
Chafee (R.I.).

     Reed, the principal sponsor, said he may offer it as an
amendment to the education bill, as we predicted before the Easter
recess.  The only thing it has to do with education is that the
Columbine High School killers bought a couple of their guns through
a straw purchaser at a gun show.

     Last year, anti-gun Senators were blocked from bringing a
string of gun provisions -- including Sen. Feinstein's registration
bill (now S. 25) -- as education bill amendments.

     The Senators taunted President Bush to support and sign the
gun show provision, as he had pledged during the campaign -- though
that was not the Senate version but the NRA-backed House version by
former Rep. Bill McCollum (R-Fla.) and Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.).

     NRA press spokesman Bill Powers called the bill a "massive
 federal regulatory scheme ... registering private information
about lawful gun holders who have cleared a check with the federal
government."

     Although Bush campaign opponents Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
and Joseph Lieberman (D-Ct.) have drafted a still-unseen
"compromise" gun show bill, a Reed spokesman said they will not
introduce their bill until after a vote on the Reed bill.

     According to Associated Press the McCain-Lieberman bill would
"further limit gun show sales without background checks, but not
eliminate them" -- whatever that means.
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     Paxton Quigley, author of Armed and Female, is in the news
again have designed a handgun holster bra.  Producers of the TV
show "Ripley's Believe It or Not," apparently eager to show a model
wearing it, but not willing to promote self-defense with guns,
retaped the segment on the holster bra to show and mention only the
version that carries pepper spray.
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     It's rather ironic that Sarah Brady, who said on the  Larry King show
last
week that she has lung cancer, continues to smoke on occasion
though she and everyone else knows that smoking causes cancer -- at
the same time she's demanding restrictions on guns, which do not
cause crimes.

     No one would wish that disease on anyone, but the irreverent
have suggested that she should promote 10-cigarette packs, prohibit
unfiltered cigs, raise the minimum purchase age to 21, require criminal
and mental background checks for buyers, and limit purchases to one pack
per month (which actually might save lives -- unlike the gun
version.)



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