12.  Creation of a new license (in addition to a gun-show-promoter
license), similar to FFLs, for individuals who want access to the NICS
national background check system for facilitating gun-show sales for
private citizens;

13.  Regulations to be issued by the Secretary of the Treasury on the
procedures, data collections, methods and implementation of the entire
process to federally control gun shows, in addition to the requirements
made by the proposed statute;  such regulations will not be known,
drafted or even suggested, until after the McCain-Lieberman law is
enacted;

14.  The proposed bill also puts pressure on state governments to make
at least 95% of their law enforcement records for the past 30 years
openly available to the federal government; and

-- makes unlimited funds available for the states to comply with these
federal goals;

-- requires annual federal review of states' compliance;

-- increases penalties (up to ten years imprisonment) for record-keeping
violations;

-- grants states permission to make even more restrictive requirements
without being out of compliance with these new federal laws (and by
implication, puts states that resist these rules in federal trouble);

-- provides hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars for more law
enforcement under numerous programs including project Exile and others;

-- hires 200 more Federal BATF Agents;

-- provides $10 million to the National Institute for Justice to give
out for research on "technologies that limit the use of a gun to the
owner"; and

-- provides for annual reports (in great detail) by the Attorney General
to Congress on whether the Brady law is working;

15.  Enlargement of the federal bureaucracy and appropriation from
taxpayers of "such funds as are necessary" to license, register and
monitor an estimated ten million non-criminals who attend the thousands
of gun shows held annually in America; and

16.  Oh yes, I almost forgot about the so-called "loophole" part the
media is so excited about -- the McCain-Lieberman bill will make an
honest private citizen a criminal for transferring a gun to another
honest private citizen, without first registering the transfer with, and
getting permission from, the federal government (represented by the FBI
at its data complex in Clarksburg, West Virginia).

Transfer or possession of a firearm to or by a criminal (a "federally
prohibited possessor") is completely unaffected by the McCain-Lieberman
"loophole" bill, so I guess it's accurate to characterize it as a
loophole bill.

To sum up:  Perfectly legal gun sales -- with no victims or criminal
activity of any kind -- are outlawed at gun shows by the
McCain-Lieberman bill, unless the sale is pre-registered with the
federal government; real crimes are totally unaffected; and your friends
in the federal government take over full control of gun shows -- which
have been previously free of government infringement for more than 200
years.

Please write your local news outlet and politely request a correction.

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