From: lvc@cbnews.cb.att.com (Larry Cipriani)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: RKBA archive (was Re: Gun Banning in Madison, Wisconsin)
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:46:14 GMT
Organization: Ideology Busters, Inc.

In article <1992Nov5.131915.11884@doug.cae.wisc.edu> sean@cae.wisc.edu (Sean Rutledge) writes:
>
>I want sources about how past gun control legislation was racist (banning
>Saturday Night Specials, and Dred Scott decision), discriminates against
>the poor (expensive and powerfuls guns are OK, but can't have cheap guns),
>won't keep guns out of criminal hands, ....  I do want sources on all 
>information so I can't be accused of promoting propaganda.  What FTP sites
>about RKBA are available?

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Subject: Information about the rkba archive
Newsgroups: rec.guns,talk.politics.guns
Keywords: rkba archive

This is the INDEX file for the RKBA archive stored on the machine
archive.cis.ohio-state.edu in the directory /pub/firearms/politics/rkba.

This archive is accessible via anonymous ftp; there is no mail server
at the present time.  Instructions in how to use anonymous ftp are at
the end of this file.

If you have any additions or suggestions for improvement to the RKBA
archive please let me know.
--
Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox1!lvc or l.v.cipriani@att.com

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File: 82rkba

Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on
the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second
Session, February, 1982
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File: HCR11

House Concurrent Resolution 11 by Mr. Crane, January 3, 1991

Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the right of all
Americans to keep and bear arms in defense of life or liberty and in
pursuit of all other legitimate endeavors.
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File: HJR438

House Joint Resolution 438 by Mr. Major Owens, March 11, 1992

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States
repealing the Second Amendment to the Constitution; includes comments
by Owens entered into the Congressional Record.
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File: HR1133

House Bill 1133 by Mr. Goodling, February 27, 1991

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit transfer of firearm to,
or possession of a firearm by, a person convicted of a drug crime, and to
provide enhanced penalties for possession of a firearm during a drug crime.
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File: HR1354

House Bill 1354 by Mr. Scheuer, March 7, 1991

To end the use of steel jaw leghold traps on animals in the United States.
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File: HR1412

House Bill 1412 by Mr. Staggers, March 13, 1991

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for the establishment
of a national hotline which a Federal Firearms licensee may contact to
learn if receipt of a handgun by a prospective transferee is prohibited,
and to require such a licensee to contact the hotline before the transfer
of a handgun to a nonlicensee.
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File: HR1559

House Bill 1559 by Mr. Gibbons, March 21, 1991

To prohibit the importation of semiautomatic assault weapons, large
capacity ammunition feeding devices, and certain accessories.
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File: HR1770

House Bill 1770 by Mr. Smith of Florida, April 15, 1991

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain handguns
which are unsuitable for lawful sporting purposes.
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File: HR19

House Bill 19 by Mr. Hughes January 3, 1991

To prohibit the possession, transfer, and certain exports of restricted
weapons, the manufacture of firearms capable of accepting a silencer or
bayonet without alteration, and the possession and transfer of large
capacity ammunition feeding devices, and for other purposes.
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File: HR282

House Bill 282 by Mrs. Collins, January 3, 1991

To provide for the mandatory registration of handguns.
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File: HR2922


To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish an entitlement of States
and certain political subdivisions of States to receive grants for the
abatement of health hazards associated with lead-based paint, and to amend
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose an excise tax and establish a
trust fund to satisfy the Federal obligations arising from such entitlement.

[This bill would impose upto a $0.75/pound tax on all new lead, and
$0.37/pound tax on recycled lead.]

House Bill 2922 by Mr. CARDIN, JULY 17, 1991
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File: HR318

House Bill 318 by Mr. Dornan, January 3, 1991

To amend the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit dog racing and dog training
involving the use of live animals as visual lure and to make such Act
applicable to facilities that are used for dog racing or dog race training.
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File: HR3371

House Bill 3371
			
"The Violent Crime Prevention Act of 1991"
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File: HR371

House Bill 371 by Mr. Marlenee, January 3, 1991

To protect persons engaged in a lawful hunt within a national forest;
establishing an administrative civil remedy against individuals or groups
intentionally obstructing, impeding, or interfering with the conduct of a
lawful hunt; and for other purposes.
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File: HR4079

House Bill 4079 by Mr. Gingrich, February 22, 1990

To provide swift and certain punishment for criminals in order
to deter violent crime and rid America of illegal drug use.
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File: HR436

House Bill 436 by Mr. Weiss, January 3, 1991

To prohibit the manufacture, transfer, or importation of .25 caliber
and .32 caliber ammunition.
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File: HR465

House Bill 465 by Mr. Rangel, January 7, 1991

To prohibit certain exports of fully automatic or semiautomatic
assault weapons.
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File: HR4897

House Bill 4897 by Mr. Cunningham, April 9, 1992

To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968
to deny grant funds to States unless law enforcement officers are permitted
to carry concealed firearms.
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File: HR5633

House Bill 5633 by Mr. Schumer, July 21, 1992

To amend title 18, United States Code, to expand the scope of the multiple
firearms sales reporting requirement, and to require that persons comply
with State and local firearms licensing laws before receiving a Federal
license to deal in firearms.
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File: HR5807

House Bill 5807 by Mr. Schumer, August 10, 1992

To impose criminal penalties upon the failure of a Federal firearms
licensee to report to appropriate authorities the loss or theft of a
firearm from the inventory or collection of the licensee.
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File: HR7

House Bill 7 by Mr. Feighan

To require a waiting period before the purchase of a handgun;
also known as "The Brady Bill"
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File: HR750

House Bill 750 by Mr. Russo, January 30, 1991

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that the excise tax
on handguns will be transferred to a trust fund to be used for purposes of
providing compensation to victims of crime, and for other purposes.
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File: S214

Senate Bill 214 by Mr. Hatch, January 15, 1991

To provide procedures for calling Federal constitutional 
conventions under article V for the purpose of proposing 
amendments to the United States Constitution.
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File: S2304

Senate Bill 2304 by Mr. Lautenberg, March 3, 1992

To amend title 18, United States Code, to permanently prohibit the
possession of firearms by persons who have been convicted of a violent
felony, and for other purposes.
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File: S257

Senate Bill 257

To require a waiting period before the purchase of a handgun.
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File: S2813

Senate Bill 2813 by Mr. Gore, June 4, 1992

To establish in the Government Printing Office an electronic
gateway to provide public access to a wide range of Federal
databases containing public information stored electronically.
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File: S2913

Senate Bill 2913 by Mr. Chafee, June 30 1992

To prohibit the manufacture, importation, exportation, sale,
purchase, transfer, receipt, possession, or transportation of
handguns and ammunition, with certain exceptions.
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File: S386

Senate Bill 386 by Mr. Metzenbaum, February 8, 1989

To control the sale and use of assault weapons.                
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File: S51

Senate Bill 51 by Mr. Moynihan, January 14, 1991

To prohibit the manufacture, transfer, or importation of .25 caliber
and .32 caliber and 9 millimeter ammunition.
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File: S634

Senate Bill 634 by Mr. Symms, March 13, 1991

To amend chapter 44, title 18, United States Code, to provide clarification
of limitations on controls of firearms, and to prohibit the use of Federal
funds to political subdivisions which implement certain gun control ordi-
nances.
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File: S747

Senate Bill 747 by Mr. DeConcini,

To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, regarding
assault weapons.
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File: S892

Senate Bill 892, By Mr. Metzenbaum, April 23, 1991

To amend title 15, United States Code, to authorize the Consumer Product
Safety Commission to regulate the risk of injury associated with firearms.
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File: S918

Senate Bill 918, by Mr. Packwood, April 24, 1991

The amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt small manufacturers,
producers, and importers from the firearms excise tax.
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File: gun-free-zones

Text of the GUN FREE SCHOOL ZONES ACT OF 1990 from PUBLIC LAW 101-647
NOV. 29, 1990
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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.
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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 ? "
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File: dial911

"Dial 911 and Die!"  By Aaron Zelman and Jay Simkin of Jews for the
Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO)
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File: fija-info

The Fully Informed Jury Amendment, and what it means to gun owners
and the right to keep and bear arms.
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File: whitemanslaw

White Man's Law by William R. Tonso, from the December 1985
Reason magazine
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File: jefferson

The First Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson, 2nd president of the
United States.
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File: jewishistory

Jewish History Rufutes Gun Control Activists, by Elliot Rothenberg
from the February 1988 *American Rifleman*.
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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.
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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
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File: new-understa

Toward a New Understanding of the Second Amendment, by David T. Hardy
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File: to-bear-arms

"To Bear Arms for Self Defense: Our Second Amendment Heritage" by
Stephen P. Halbrook.
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File: no-treason

No Treason, The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner
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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.
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File: waitper-qna

Waiting Period -- Questions and Answers by Handgun Control, Inc. (HCI)
and Citizens for Safe Government (CSG)
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File: warsaw

"The Warsaw Ghetto; 10 Handguns Against Tyranny",
by Dr. David I Caplan from February, 1988 American Rifleman.
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File: wethepeople

Supreme Court interpretations of the Second Amendment.
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File: sc-ftp

How to retreive Supreme Court decisions via anonymous ftp.
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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.
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File: embarassing.2nd.amendment

The Embarassing Second Amendment by Sanford Levinson, Yale Law Journal
Volume 99, pp 637-659 (1989)
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File: nra800

Phone numbers for the NRA, many are toll-free 800 numbers
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File: nradrugs

A collection of articles on the NRA's position on the War on Drugs.
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File: fl-aw-part1

Florida A.W. Commission - Exec Summary Part 1,
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File: fl-aw-part2

Florida A.W. Commission - Exec Summary Part 2,
STOCKTON -- THE FACTS  by Martin L. Fackler, MD
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File: iwba

Information about the International Wound Ballistics Association,
Martin Fackler, president
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File: gunshyjudges

Gun-Shy Judges by Jacob Sullum, from the May 1991 issue of Reason Magazine
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File: heatofmoment

In the Heat of the Moment, By James D. Wright
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File: racist-soil

Article "Gun Control Sprouts from Racist Soil." by Roy Innis,
from the Wall Street Journal 11/21/91
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File: core-policy

"Bearing Arms for Self-Defense -- A Human and Civil Right" by
Roy Innis, National Chairman, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
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File: righttobear

The Right to Bear Arms By Sanford Levinson from the
Daily News, Ft Walton Beach, FL.  (1991)
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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 illegal -- believe it or not.
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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 punishable under the NFA -- believe it
or not.
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File: waitdanger

Why Gun Waiting Periods Threaten Public Safety By David B. Kopel,
March 25, 1991
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File: aw-qna

Assault Weapon Questions & Answers
by Handgun Control, Inc. and Citizens for Safe Government (CSG)
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File: ccw-survey

A state by state survey of Carrying Concealed Weapons laws.
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File: us-vs-miller

United States vs. Miller et al., Appeal from the District Court of the
United States for the Western District of Arkansas.

Argued March 30, 1939 -- Decided May 15, 1939
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File: presser

The history of Presser v Illinois is a fascinating exercise of how
politically based decisions on our Constitutional rights have come back
to haunt us.
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File: cia-ncbh

A column by Neal Knox presenting evidence that former CIA agent
Edwin O. Welles played a major role in founding HCI and NCBH.
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File: conphone

A list of voice and fax phone number for representatives and senators.
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File: billofrights

The first 10 articles of amendment to the United States Constitution.
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File: constitution

The Constitution of the United States of America
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decl-of-indp

The Declaration of Independence
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File: dont-wait

"Criminals Don't Wait -- Why Should You ?" from the NRA.  Exposes the
fraudulent arguments made for waiting periods.
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File: external

The Positive Externalities of Gun Ownership
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File: english-hist

Firearms Legislation in Great Britain, by Jan A. Stevenson
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File: simkin

"Control Criminals, Not Guns" by Jay Edward Simkin found in the
March, 25 1991 [or '92?] Wall Street Journal:
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File: unabridged

The Unabridged Second Amendment, by J. Neil Schulman

An interview with Roy Copperud, retired professor of journalism at
USC and author of "American Usage and Style: The Consensus".  Copperud
offers his professional opinion on the meaning of the Second Amendment.
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File: uzitruth

A letter from J. Harper Wilson, Director FBI Uniform Crime Reporting
Program to Paul H. Blackman, Research Coordinator of the NRA stating
that only one police officer, of Puerto Rico, was shot and killed with
a semi-automatic 9mm Model A Uzi.
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File: maketheirday

"How to Make Their Day" by Don B. Kates Jr. and Patricia Terrell Harris
in the National Review, October 21, 1991

Kates and Harris debunk several myths about firearms, criminals, and
violence.
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File: two-myths

Two myths of gun control from "Point Blank: Guns and Violence in
America" by Gary Kleck.
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File: aw-not-problem

"Assault Weapons Aren't the Problem", by Gary Kleck, published in
The New York Times Tuesday, September 1, 1992
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File: oregon-study

1990 Oregon Study of Retail Firearm Sales and CHL Licensing
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File: children

Fighting for Children's Hearts and Minds by Robert Pew, American
Rifleman - April 1992

Discusses how HCI and it's Center to Prevent Handgun Violence
have set out to use public schools as forums for their anti-gun
propaganda.
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File: external

Positive Externalities of Gun Ownership, by John Kell, from
"The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, October 1991 "
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File: guns+sputter

Guns and Sputter by James D. Wright, from July 1989 issue of REASON.
Wright exposes the flaws in the New England Journal of Medicine study
comparing the homicide rates of Seattle and Vancouver.
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File: nejm-info

A collection of articles and information on the New England Journal of
Medicine Vancouver/Seattle handgun crime comparison study.

See also the file guns+sputter, authored by James Wright.
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File: dcstudy.1

The New England Journal of Medicine. 1991 Dec 5. 325 (23).
pp 1647-1650.
Editorials: Firearms And The Killing Threshold.
Kassirer-Jerome-P.
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File: dcstudy.2

The New England Journal of Medicine. 1991 Dec 5. 325 (23).
pp 1615-1620.
Special Article: Effects Of Restrictive Licensing Of
Handguns On Homicide And Suicide In The District Of Columbia.
Loftin-Colin.  McDowall-David.  Wiersema-Brian.  Cottey-Talbert-J.
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File: nejm-editorial

The New England Journal of Medicine. 1988 Nov 10. 319 (19).
pp 1283-1285.
Editorial: Firearm Injuries: A Call For Science.
Mercy-James-A. Houk-Vernon-N.
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File: nejm-letters

The New England Journal of Medicine. 1989 May 4. 320 (18).
pp 1214-1217.
Correspondence: Handgun Regulations, Crime, Assaults, And
Homicide: A Tale Of Two Cities.
Blackman-Paul-H. Hagen-Tim.  Morris-David-C.
Stolinsky-David-C. Tirer-Samuel.  Gryder-John-W.
Kuziak-John-D. Sloan-John-H. Kellerman-Arthur-L-Kellermann.
Rivara-Fred-P. Koepsell-Thomas.  Reay-Donald-T.
LoGerfo-James-P. Rice-Charles.  Ferris-James-A. Gray-Laurel-
A. Mercy-James-A. Houk-Vernon-N.
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File: suicide.1

The New England Journal of Medicine. 1990 Feb 8. 322 (6).
pp 369-373.
Special Article: Firearm Regulations And Rates Of Suicide:
A Comparison of Two Metropolitan Areas.
Sloan-John-Henry.  Rivara-Frederick-P. Reay-Donald-T.
Ferris-James-A-J. Kellermann-Arthur-L.
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File: suicide.2

The New England Journal of Medicine. 1990 Jul 12. 323 (2).
p 137.
Correspondence: Firearm Regulations and Rates of Suicide.
Blackman-Paul-H. Sloan-John-Henry.  Rivara-Frederick-P.
Kellermann-Arthur.
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File: totc

The New England Journal of Medicine. 1988 Nov 10. 319 (19).
pp 1256-1262.
Special Article: Handgun Regulations, Crime, Assaults, And
Homicide: A Tale of Two Cities.
Sloan-John-Henry.  Kellermann-Arthur-L. Reay-Donald-T.
Ferris-James-A. Koepsell-Thomas.  Rivara-Frederick-P.
Rice-Charles.  Gray-Laurel.  LoGerfo-James.
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File: nra.cdc

An open letter from Paul H. Blackman, of NRA to the Director, Office
of Scientific Integrity Review, U.S. Public Health Service, detailing
why they should evaluate the integrity and competency of firearms research
conducted by and for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
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File: RKBA.000

What the RKBA.nnn files are all about.

The RKBA.nnn series are set of small (60-100 lines typically) postings
that address common questions and myths about all aspects of firearms.
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File: RKBA.001

Accidental deaths by firearms and by other means.
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FILE: RKBA.002

Declining trend of accidental deaths by firearms
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File: RKBA.003

Homicide per capita in the US
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File: RKBA.004

Children and firearms
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File: RKBA.008

Annual firearm manufacture in the United States
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File: RKBA.010

Declaration of Independence
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File: RKBA.013

Trend in weapons use for robberies (1974-86)
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File: RKBA.014

Reasons for homicide and non-negligent manslaughter
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File: RKBA.015

Are firearms a leading cause of death of children?
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File: RKBA.016

Is the United States the most violent nation?
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File: RKBA.999

Complete list of all sources used for the RKBA.nnn series.
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File: cox-study

Analysis of the Cox Atlanta Journal Constitution, 21 May 1989 article
on Assault Weapons, by James J. Baker of NRA-ILA, before the Select
Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, U.S. House of Representatives.
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File: feder11.txt

The Federalist Papers, as transcribed by Project Gutenberg 1.1
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File: great-quotes

Thomas Jefferson quotes and more ...
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File: civilian

Civilian Possession of Military Firearms, by Richard A. I. Munday,
from the January/February 1988 issue of the UK Handgunner.
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File: good-go-bad

"When Good, Law-Abiding Citizens Go Bad", from UK Handgunner No. 46
Jan-Feb 1989.  Discusses how the rate of compliance of gun control
laws is always very low, even among otherwise law abiding citizens.

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File: tory-national-socialism


"Tory National Socialism", by Richard A.I. Munday, UK Handgunner,
Jul-Aug 86.  Discusses the gun control leanings of socialists of
the right.
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File: the-big-lie

" Gun Grabbers vs. Assault Rifles: The Big Lie" by Neal Knox,

Semi-auto military-styled "assault" rifles are not now nor have they
ever been a threat to society. These facts have been determined by
the government - but never released to the public!
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File: ff-47

"The Founding Fathers and the AK-47", by Sue Wimmershoff-Caplan
Discuss the question if the Founding Fathers would have approved of
the AK-47 for civilian ownership.
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File: hci+kkk

"Handgun Control, Inc., & the KKK" by David Kopel, from the Oct 91
issue of Gun World magazine.  Discusses the parallels in the hate
campaigns of the Ku Klux Klan and Handgun Control, Inc.
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File: rkba-orgs

A list of organizations devoted to the preservation of the Second
Amendment.
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File: victoria

"The Gun Law Handbook" for the state of Victoria, Australia (Oct 1988).
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File: nra-purposes

A summary of the NRA's purposes and objectives, and positions on some
gun control issues.
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File: ktw

A collection of articles relating to teflon coated, armor piercing
bullets.
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File: thompsoncenter

The Supreme Court decision in the case:

United States of America v. Thompson/Center Arms Co.
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File: DMN_Gratia_CCP

"Concealed weapons can prevent tragedies like Killeen's" by
Dr. Suzanna Gratia in the Dallas Morning News, Sunday April
29th, 1992
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File: Knox_AW_lies

Neal Knox on how military style semi-auto's are not a threat
to public safety, how they are not fundamentally different
than ordinary hunting weapons, and how the gun grabbers are
exploiting the bad image this class of weapons has to enact
further gun control.
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File: WSJ_Crimestrik

"The NRA Mounts a Militant Campaign Taking Aim at Criminal-Justice
System" by Alix M. Freedman staff reporter of The Wall Street Journal.
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File: med-media

"Gun Prohibition in the Medical Literature - Telling the Truth?" by
Edgar A. Suter, MD ; discusses anti-gun bias in medical journals.
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File: toy-guns

"Court Psychologist Says Toy Guns Are Good For Children" from Gun Week,
1989. 

Glen David Skoler, court psychologist for the Arlington County, VA,
claims "toys of violence" -- including toy guns are, in fact, good
for children.
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File: awca89-appeal

Text of the 9th Circuit court of Appeals in the Fresno Rifle and Pistol
Club challenge to California's Roberti-Roos Assault Weapon Control Act
of 1989.
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File: lp92-rkba

The right to keep and bear arms plank of the 1992 National Platform of
the Libertarian Party.

And a reproduction of the Libertarian Party brochure
"Responsible Gun Ownership: Equal Rights for America's Gun Owners"

The entire 1992 National Platform of the LP is available via anonymous
ftp on think.com in the file /pub/libernet/LP/libertarian-platform-1992
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File: let-july91

An article from the July/August 1991 issue of Law Enforcement Technology
with a survey of police officers on their views of gun control.
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File: nacp-poll

A study conducted by the National Association of the Chiefs of
Police (NACP) through its American Law Enforcement Survey for 1989,
in which 16,259 chiefs of police, sheriffs and law-enforcement command
personnel were polled with a list of 30 questions, it was determined
the overwhelming majority of officers support the right of private
arms ownership, and agreed that gun bans had little effect on crime.
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File: hci-advert

A example of the propaganda used by HCI in soliciting contributions.
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File: hci-transcript

A transcription of the HCI video tape "America Needs a National
Handgun Control Policy"
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File: gartner

Michael Gartner, president of NBC News, calls for a ban on handguns
in this USA TODAY Thursday January 16th 1992 editorial.
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File: nra-lp

A resolution passed by the voting membership of the NRA at its national
convention in Anaheim, CA stating the NRA will support third party
candidates.
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File: cooley

Thomas M. Cooley, LL.D., General Principles of Constitutional Law in
the United States of America, 298-299 (3rd ed. 1898), a leading 
constitutional commentator discussed the rights protected by the Second
Amendment:
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File: kilpatrick

"Gun Law Might Curb Rising Murder Rate" by James Kilpatrick, St. Louis
Post-Dispatch Tuesday June 23, 1992.  Kilpatrick expresses support for
a national firearms law as proposed by C. Everett Koop, that is, a
requirement that gun owners pass a competency test, among other things.
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File: vanity-fair

A summary of the 10 page article on Jim and Sarah Brady which appeared
in the January '91 issue of Vanity Fair Magazine.

Question: "Was it true you wanted to get a gun to protect
	yourself against Hinckley?"

Answer Jim brady: "I had a gun"
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File: goldwin

"Gun Control Is Constitutional," by Robert A. Goldwin from the
Wall Street Journal edtorial page, Thrusday, December 12, 1991
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File: anniston

Two articles on a murder averted in Anniston, Alabama by a man
with a CCW permit.  The importance of this event is that it closely
followed the murders by Hennard in Texas, but the media did not
cover Anniston.
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File: staggers-brady

A survey of public support for the Staggers Instant Background
Check and the Brady Waiting Period.  The basic finding is that
once the public understands the advantages of the instant background
check vs. the problems with the Brady waiting period support for
the Brady waiting period diminishes greatly.
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File: brady-vote

How Congress voted on the Staggers Instant Background Check and
the Brady Waiting period.
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File: vs-vote

How Congress voted on the Volkmer-Sensenbrenner Amendment to
strike the new gun control sections from the administration
crime bill.
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File: dc-vote

How the U.S. Senate voted on S. 2113, the repeal of the District
of Columbia's anti-gun strict liability law.
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File: covey

"Gun Control: Trying the Facts,  Weighing the Values" A monograph based
on "Crime, Inequality, Guns, & Equity" by Preston K. Covey, Ph.D.,
Director Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics, Carnegie Mellon
University.

Addresses the desirability of gun bans: ethical aspects, equity issues,
and other values at stake in the management of mortal risks, deadly
force and its instruments.  
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File: cleveland

A critique of:

ACCIDENTAL FIREARM FATALITIES IN A METROPOLITAN COUNTY (1958-1973)
Rushforth, Hirsch, Ford, and Adelson
American Journal of Epidemiology #100, 1974, pp. 499-505.


This is THE study that lies at the heart of the gun control
claim that owning a firearm for self-defense is too dangerous.
The claims that a defensive gun is X (=6 in this study)
times more likely to be used against an innocent person than
in lawful self-defense originated with this report in 1974.

by Robert I. Kesten
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File: tiananmen-lessons

"LESSONS FROM TIANANMEN SQUARE" by Neal Knox reprinted from
Guns & Ammo, September 1989

Why the Second Amendment is so important, even in todays more
"progressive" era.  Included is a description of the 1932
Bonus March in Washington, DC in which Gen. Douglas MacArthur
opposed unemployed WWI veterans lobbying for the government to
immediately pay their promised Veteran's Bonus.
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File: forward-trace

"California FFL Dealer Defies "Forward Trace"" by Neal Talbot in
The New Gun Week, March 1, 1991.

Details how the BATF bullies FFL holders into giving BATF copies
of 4473's in violation of federal law.
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File: justice-stats

"Handgun Crime Victims", by Michael R. Rand, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Statistician, U.S. Department of Justice.

This Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report describes the key findings
from an analysis of handgun crimes reported in the National Crime Survey
for 1979-87.  It describes the victims of hand-gun [sic] crime, how the
handgun was used during the crime, and the nature and extent of handgun
crime injury.  It also provides information on handgun offenders, the
location of handgun crimes, and whether the crime was reported to the
police.
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File: chafee

Included are:

1) Transcript of press conference with Senator John Chafee, and former
Supreme Court justice Warren Burger on S. 2913, Chafee's, handgun ban.
Also speaking was Vernon Jordan, former member of the Jimmy Carter
White House; Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly; Michael Beard of National
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence; Michael Casserly (executive director,
Council of the Great City Schools); Dr. Carden Johnston representing
the American Academy of Pediatrics;

2) An article by Neal Knox in which he describes how Sarah Brady kicked
out HCI president Charles Orasin because of a disagreement on Chafee's
handgun ban.

3) An article on Burger's support for S. 2913.

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File: alarmist-view

"Gun Registration: An 'Alarmist' View" by Jon vanWormer; reprinted
from the December 1985 Guns & Ammo.  How an rkba moderate became a
radical.
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File: fackler-papers

A list of articles by "Col. Martin L. Fackler, M.D., F.A.C.S."
Wound Ballistics Lab, and where to write for copies of them.
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File: gun-war

"THE GREAT AMERICAN GUN WAR" by Barry Bruce-Briggs,
_The_Public_Interest_  No. 45, Fall 1976, pp 37-62
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File: george-will

"Repeal Second Amendment and Save Lives", by George Will
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File: reeves

"Drastic Steps to End the War at Home" by Richard Reeves, no date
nor publication available; placed in rkba archive 9/2/92

"Studies _Prove_ Gun Control Works" by Richard Reeves, from the
Kansas City Star, 9/28/92.
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File: canada-ban-list

A reproduction of a brochure from the Canadian Department of Justice
listing newly prohibited and restricted firearms (as of June 1992).

Also included is the "point system" used to determine if a firearm
should be reviewed for possible banning.
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File: copkiller

Lyrics to the rock song "Cop Killer" by Ice-T on the album Body Count.
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File: cva.1

A letter from the California Voters Alliance, asking for support in
their effort to defeat anti-gun California Assemblyman Terry Friedman,
co-author of California's waiting period law for rifles and shotguns. 
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File: astrology

"CRIMINOLOGY'S ASTROLOGY: The CDC Approach to Public Health Research
on Firearms and Violence" by PAUL H. BLACKMAN, Ph.D., Institute for
Legislative Action, National Rifle Association, 1990

A paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of
Criminology, Baltimore, Maryland, November 7-10
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File: aw-panic

The Assault Weapon Panic: "Political Correctness" Takes Aim,
at the Constitution, by Eric Morgan and David Kopel

Published by The Independence Institute, October 10, 1991
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File: state-rkba

A collection of RKBA provisions from State constitutions.
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File: too-late

Chapter 13 "But then it was too Late" of "THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE
FREE: The Germans, 1933 - 1945", by: Milton Mayer, University of
Chicago Press
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File: militia-code

The legal definition of the militia of the United States of America
taken from:

United Stated Code (USC), TITLE 10, Section 311 and Section 312.
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File: legal-mg-crime

Report No. 32 of the Firearms Coalition of Silver Spring, MD. 11/29/89
by Neal Knox.  Knox reports that a legally registered machine gun was
used in a drug hit.  Subsequent reports said charges were dropped for
lack of evidence.
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File: hci-cash

HCI donation records to US Senators and Congressmen.
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File: paulreverenet

Information about the "Paul Revere Net", a network of 2nd Amendment
Bulletin Boards

The Paul Revere Network (PRN) is a coast-to-coast network of
committed grass-roots gun rights activists who rely upon computer
bulletin board systems for their primary mode of communication.
Leroy Pyle (NRA Director and 27-year San Jose police veteran)
is Founder and Director of the PRN.  Based in San Jose, CA,
Pyle's BBS (1:143/223) currently hubs all network message
traffic.
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File: gun-talk

Information about the NRA-ILA Bulletin Board "Gun Talk"
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File: congessgrades

A grading of congressmen based their votes on 1) the Brady Bill
(HR7), 2) Staggers (HR1412) and 3) the Volkmer-Sensenbrenner amendment
to strike the anti-gun provisions from the house crime bill (HR3371).
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File: lawmaster

"FEDS TRASH LAW-ABIDING GUN OWNER'S HOME", NRA official journal March
1992, by Richard E. Gardiner.  Details how the BATF raided the home of
Johnny Lawmaster in search of a non-existent unregistered M-16 auto-sear.
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File: point-blank

The concluding chapter to "Point Blank" by Gary Kleck.
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File: purdy-rapsheet

Patrick Purdy's criminal record.
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RKBA archive: general information and anonymous ftp instructions.

The moderator of the firearms-politics mailing list, Karl Kleinpaste,
has agreed to set up an anonymous ftp archive directory for RKBA
related information.  This directory can be used for things like
articles by Kates, Wright, Tonso, Levinson, Supreme Court Decisions,
the RIA vs US decision, copies of legislation, and so on.  It's not
meant to be for the discussions that normally appear here.

So, in the future if you're looking for something check there first
and then ask here.

Instructions:

Short version for techies:

The site is archive.cis.ohio-state.edu (Internet number 128.146.8.52)
Place contributions into the directory /pub/firearms/politics/incoming.
The ftp commands put, mput or send should work.  Give the command "type
binary" to be certain compressed files are transferred correctly.
Karl will move files from this directory to /pub/firearms/politics/rkba
if they fit within the intent of this archive, otherwise they will
be removed.  To get a file use the commands get or mget.

I will maintain an index which you should get first to check if
the file you want to read or write already is archived.

Long version for non-techies:

In order for you to use this archive your computer must be on
the Internet.  To connect to the archive site run the command:

	ftp archive.cis.ohio-state.edu

If that doesn't work try the command:

	ftp 128.146.8.52

If that doesn't work you cannot use this archive.  If the ftp
command is successful you'll get this prompt asking you for a
login:
	Name (archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:lvc):

Instead of lvc your initials will appear.  Answer this prompt with:

	ftp

Next you'll get this prompt asking your for your e-mail address:

	Guest login ok, send e-mail address as password:

I would enter:

	lvc@cbvox1.att.com

You'll enter your own e-mail address.  You'll get these lines
or similar as output:

	Remote system is UNIX.
	Using binary mode to transfer files.

Next, the command prompt is printed:

	ftp> 

If you do not get the line "Using binary mode to transfer files."
Run the command:

	type binary

Now you're logged in to the archive machine.  There are many
directories on this machine  but the two you are concerned with are
/pub/firearms/politics/rkba and /pub/firearms/politics/incoming.

When you login to the system your directory is /.  To change your
directory to the rkba directory run the command:

	cd /pub/firearms/politics/rkba

Or to change your directory to the incoming directory run the command:

	cd /pub/firearms/politics/incoming

Once you do this you'll get another ftp> prompt asking you to enter
another command.

To find the names of the existing files in the directory you are
in run the command:

	ls -l

You'll get an output looking something like this:

total 1775
-r--r--r--  1 482         91513 Apr 30 17:11 82rkba
-r--r--r--  1 482         18550 May 18 20:38 INDEX
-r--r--r--  1 482          1653 May  8 16:01 HCR11
... and so on ...

This shows there are three files, one called INDEX and one called
HCR11.  To get a file run the command "get" followed by the name of
the file you want, for example:

	get INDEX
or
	get HCR11

After the file is transfered to your machine a message like this:

	Transfer complete.
	1653 bytes received in 1 seconds (1 Kbytes/s)

You can repeat the get command for every file you want to retreive.
Once you're finished you can log off with the command:

	quit

If you have a file you want to contribute the procedure is a little
different.  First of all you should find out if the file already
exists, so get a copy of the index file with the procedure above
and look it over to make sure you wouldn't repeat an entry.  The
index will have a description of each of the files in the rkba
directory.  For example:

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File: whitemanslaw

White Man's Law by William R. Tonso, from the December 1985
Reason magazine
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Once you've determined you won't be duplicating an entry, login
and change to the incoming directory command (see way above).

Once you are in the incoming directory use the command:

	put file_name_goes_here

If you have a file called, sb-fan-club, then the command is:

	put sb-fan-club

Again there'll be a "Transfer complete, so many bytes transfered
in so many seconds" message.  Now your file is on the archive
machine.

Another thing to watch out for is duplicate file *names*.
So, be sure there isn't a file in the incoming directory that
is called the same as the file you want to write.  If you use
the same name you'll overwrite the previous file [or you'll get
an error message].

Your file may have to be renamed if there is a conflict with a
file by the same name in the rkba directory.

Once your file is in the incoming directory send me an entry for
the INDEX file and I will add it to the file.

If you cannot use anonymous ftp and would still like to contribute
a file email the file to me and I'll take care of the rest.

If you have any questions feel free to ask me.
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Note: All words and phrases _marked _with _underscores_ were italicized
in the original. 
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-- 
Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox1!lvc or lvc@cbvox1.att.com
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns