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Tuesday, March 1, 1994
Dealers decry bureaucracy as Brady law takes effect
The Associated Press
The federal Brady law took effect yesterday, turning firearms dealers in 32 states into a first line of defense to keep felons from buying handguns.
Many dealers were quick to criticize the cost, complexity and comprehensiveness of newly required, expanded or reinforced background checks. In many cases, law enforcement authorities agreed the barrier was riddled with holes.
Some states, such as Colorado and South Carolina, are promising instant background checks — if state workers can keep up with the phone calls. The alternative is for gun shops to wait five days for a background check by the chief law enforcement official in the area where the buyer lives.
Gun dealers said yesterday they lacked information about how to contact designated agencies outside their area, especially for rural customers
"That's the big fly in the buttermilk," said Bill Carter Sr., owner of Carter's Country gun stores in Houston. "Determining the proper jurisdiction is a big problem for us. If we do it wrong, we violate the law."
If the dealer gets a quick response, there's no need to wait five days, but the wait actually could be longer. In Mississippi, a seller will send paperwork by certified mail; the five days start when it's received.
The National Rifle Association argues the law is unconstitutionally vague about who must enforce it. The NRA is backing a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Tucson, Ariz., by Graham County Sheriff Richard Mack.
Although law enforcement organizations were big backers of the Brady requirements, Mack says his deputies
are balking at enforcing something they consider unlawful.
Other police said spotty record-keeping will make the law misfire.
"We don't want to leave the public with a false sense of security," said LL Michael Futch, head of the Louisiana police records division. "Some will slip by."
Gun dealers in West Virginia complained that their state authorities failed to prepare a system for running background checks.
"To be truthful, we don't know what to do," said Bill Via, owner of Beckley Pawn & Gun Shop. "As a practical matter, in this state, there's no way to sell a handgun."
The Brady law is named after former White House Press Secretary James Brady, who was wounded during the 1981 assassination attempt on former President Reagan.
Serbs retaliate after NATO downs warplanes
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian Serbs shelled an airfield at Tuzla in northwestern Bosnia yesterday in what U.N. officials said might have been retaliation for NATO's downing of four Serb warplanes.
As extension mounted in Bosnia, an 18-day-old cease-fire in Sarajevo showed signs of fraying.
Sixteen artillery rounds were reported to have hit the Tulaa airfield, including one on the airstrip itself. There were no injuries.
Capt. Jan Pederson of the U.N. Bosnia Command speculated the shelling might have been retaliation for the downing of four Bosnian Serb planes by NATO jets early yesterday over central Bosnia.
But Serbs, who oppose U.N. plans to open the airfield March 7, have shelled the area frequently in recent weeks. Tuza is the Muslimized Bosnian government's largest enclave outside of Sarajevo.
The Sarajevo truce was being undermined by some fighting, and U.N. officials yesterday acknowledged problems monitoring a NATO-mandated pullout of Serb heavy weapons.
"The cease-fire has been generally met, but there have been some difficulties," said Lt. Col. Bill Aikman, a U.N. representative.
Aikman also expressed concern about reports that six Bosnian Serb tanks were seen withdrawing from an area north of Sarajevo, a week after all heavy weaponry was supposed to have been removed under a NATO threat of air strikes.
"It would appear they were hidden somewhere and moved out in the middle of the night," he said.
Talks to resume after inspections in North Korea
The United Nations and NATO let the deadline pass without attacking, saying Serbs essentially were complying with the ultimatum.
WASHINGTON — The United States is ready to resume negotiations with North Korea if international inspection of the communist nation's nuclear facilities proceeds on schedule, a State Department official said yesterday.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Hubbard said that the announcement also would include a decision on a scheduled U.S.-South Korean military exercise. It has been widely speculated that if the inspections take place the exercise will be canceled.
The Associated Press
North Korea has given visas to International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, who are scheduled to arrive in Pyongyang tomorrow. Hubbard said they expect to complete their work in about two weeks.
Hubbard refused to say when the negotiations would resume, but he would not dispute a report from South Korea that the date was March 21.
Their goal is to determine whether any nuclear material has been diverted from North Korean reactors at seven sites.
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