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This is part two of the INDEX file for the RKBA archive I maintain.
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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: assays-of-bias

"Assays of Bias on the Second Amendment: The Media Elite" by
Preston K. Covey, Director Center for the Advancement of Applied
Ethics [excerpts from a longer monograph]
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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 used
military force to oppose 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: awpanic_1.4.ps
File: awpanic_2.4.ps
File: awpanic_3.4.ps
File: awpanic_4.4.ps

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

Section 1 is an overall introduction, section 2 is a table of
contents, section 3 is the document itself, and section 4 is the
references listing.

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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