-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- From: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/clinton_guns000118.ht ml Clinton Backs Anti-Gun Plan President Wants More ATF Agents, Firearms Tracking President Clinton has announced a new program to crack down on gun violence, including a proposal to help police track bullets from crime scenes to the guns that fired them. (AP Photo) Jan. 18 — President Clinton today unveiled a $280 million initiative to combat gun violence that includes a proposal to help police track bullets to the gun that fired them. New crime-mapping software tracks firearms. RealVideo (download RealPlayer) “We are trying to send a message, an unambiguous message, to people who violate the law: If you commit crimes with guns or violate gun laws, you will pay a heavy price,” Clinton said in Boston before an audience of lawmakers and law enforcement officers. The president also stated an ambitious goal: “We want America to be the safest big country in the entire world.” The proposal would create the first nationally integrated ballistics testing system — linking databases built by the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The proposal would also add 500 new ATF agents and inspectors. Fighting for gun control has been a staple issue for the Clinton administration, often raising the anger of the National Rifle Association. But Clinton’s latest foray into the gun issue was designed to satisfy a major NRA request — that the federal government spend more to enforce existing gun laws. “We’ve been begging for this for three years and I’m tempted to declare it a victory,” Wayne Lapierre, executive vice president of the NRA, told ABCNEWS’ Good Morning America. “Before I do, this is something the administration has dismissed several years as a cookie-cutter approach to solving crime. While I applaud what they’re doing and they seem to be embracing it, I want to look real hard on this to make sure they really have a change of heart and will make this a way of life.” Technology The budget request would triple the funding for the testing by investing $30 million to link the two systems for the first time, creating a database called the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network, or NIBIN. Ballistics testing programs at the FBI and ATF have already advanced more than 16,000 criminal investigations of gun crimes in more than 40 states. In a related development, ABCNEWS has learned the gun manufacturer Glock will use the same technology starting in April, to build its own voluntary database using the shell casings from newly manufactured guns. The gunmaker will use a laser scanner to get the markings and put them in a database so if the gun is used in any crime in the future, whether or not that gun is recovered, law enforcement officials will be able to use the shell casings to trace the gun to the original owner and possibly subsequent owners, and to the place where it was purchased. Other gun manufacturers are looking into following suit. One source says the move is largely because the large-scale class-action lawsuits brought by cities and counties against the companies that are on the horizon. Replicating ‘Operation Cease-Fire’ The Clinton administration’s initiative would also provide $150 million to fund more than 1,000 federal, state, and local gun prosecutors. The new prosecutors would work closely with the community, law enforcement, and federal prosecutors on gun-related crimes. Nearly 100 more federal gun prosecutors in the offices of U.S. Attorneys and 20 gun enforcement teams in high gun crime areas would also be funded, enabling 20 cities to replicate Boston’s anti-crime strategy, “Operation Cease-Fire.” These teams will coordinate enforcement efforts and maximize tough federal sentencing laws against armed career criminals and illegal gun traffickers. The administration doubles its request from last year for innovative “smart” gun technologies to $10 million. The technologies could limit a gun’s use to its owner or other authorized users — and could therefore prevent accidental shooting deaths of children, deter gun theft, and stop criminals from seizing and using the guns of police officers against them. ABCNEWS correspondent Don Dahler, ABCNEWS producer Josh Gerstein and ABCNEWS.com’s Buck Wolf contributed to this report. =============================================================== Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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