Hi Kyle,

   Thanks for the explaination. Isn't that a rather high number of
ammunitions rounds for someone to have, and not be in a business? What would
a normal person need with that much - how many bullets does it normal take
to kill something? A whole bunch or just one?  I thought all firearms had to
be licensed? You can have a gun and its not licensed?  I know I must sound
dumb - but I am baffled at the numbers and non regulation. Why are there
more laws regarding cars than guns? Is all this going back to our frontier
days?

                                         Trisha

                            If you have less than 10,000 rounds of a single
type of cartridge, you need
> not register anything with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms.
> Greater than 10K, then you must have an FFL (Federal Firearms License).
> An
> FFL means, among other things, that you can sell firearms interstate,
> ammunition interstate, etc.  In other words, having an FFL makes you a
> "gun
> dealer" of sorts.  That's in the broadest terms.  There are various
> sub-categories of FFL, such as C&R (Curio and Relic), meaning that the
> weapons must be >60 years old and/or have some historical significance.
> The
> point that Bobby and I were trying to make with Anthony is that it is
> virtually impossible to keep someone from purchasing a particular
> cartridge
> in quantity.
>
> I think the shooter, loathsome as he is, makes a valid point when he
> accuses
> U.S. law enforcement of bungling the investigation of these crimes.  Heck,
> he was "hung up on" by a junior FBI agent during a phone call.  He made
> SIX
> UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS to contact the FBI.  I feel sorry for the U.S.
> citizenry who have entrusted their safety and liberty to a government that
> promises to protect them and then hides behind the Constitution when it
> cannot protect them.  Oddly enough, you would think that Handgun Control
> Inc. and other gun-control organizations would be making much political
> hay
> over this--especially since we're so close to the November elections.  Two
> factors, though, have caused them to bite their lips:
>
> 1)  It would be in obvious poor taste to use these tragedies and this
> crisis
> as political fodder AT THIS TIME.
>
> 2)  Their own polls are showing the tide is turning against "more gun
> laws".
> Rank and file citizens are realizing that criminals dont'obey laws, and
> the
> law-abiding soul cannot depend on law-enforcement to stand in the gap.
> The
> most surprising evidence of this is found in the number of women who are
> buying guns for personal protection.  A woman under attack does not have
> the
> luxury of calling 911 and waiting for help to arrive, so more and more
> women
> are becoming more proactive in their own personal defense.  Even more
> befuddling to HCI, et. al., is that even after people are shown
> "statistics"
> demonstrating that weapons may not decrease the number of crimes of
> violence, the "peace of mind", real or imagined, created by having an
> avenue
> of self-defense makes these statistics meaningless in peoples' minds.
>
>
> But back to the matter at hand: You can be certain this fellow is not one
> of
> the "beer-bellied, camo-clad militia types" of which the U.S. media is so
> fond of parading and parodying.  This guy is smart and incredibly
> controlled
> under pressure.  Insane as all get-out, yes, but very cunning.  I would
> not
> at all be surprised if we have Delta operatives on the ground in Va. and
> Md.
> to deal with this guy, posse commitatus notwithstanding.
>
> -Kyle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trisha Cummings [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:22 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: another shooting
>
>
> Hi Kyle,
>
>            What does this mean " You can purchase 9,999 rounds in any one
> config before you have to have a
> BATF FFL (10K rounds is the break-point) "as an non hunting,shooting human
> the terms are baffling.
>
>
>                                         Trisha