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...gratuitously offered to help "set up" the man who had sold it to her, Mark Fernwood, 29, leader of the John Birch Society chapter in nearby Danville, Calif., for a possible arrest on illegal gun sales. San Francisco police had also informed the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) of Moore's allegations about her gun purchase. O'Shea told Moore she could indeed be arrested if she carried a concealed weapon...
...books-the Sullivan Law-since 1911, but it results in few arrests, fewer convictions and no jail sentences. A federal registration law would undoubtedly help keep track of all guns and deny them to potentially dangerous or mentally unstable people. Conyers points out that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms already has the authority to keep central records of gun purchases, but it has been reluctant to exercise its power...
...criticism and expound on Marxist and Maoist theories. Whereupon both the FBI and the radicals dropped her entirely. Still longing for the thrills of clandestine work, she cultivated ties with San Francisco police, who in turn put her in touch with the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms...
...Government, has an office in 106, at the middle of a long corridor on the first floor of 1737 Cambridge Street. The room resembles the kind of scholar's study that would appear in a Victorian novel: papers are everywhere, ashtrays are full of the professor's pipe tobacco and cigarette butts and books lie in every manner of arrangement--books with fifteen bookmarks, books face-down on their binding, and books lying fallow--most of them with the dull dark red covers of the University libraries...
...choose, and the pressure from South Africa is bound to continue. Vorster, convinced of the need for an accommodation with black Africa, has already removed 2,000 South African paramilitary policemen from Rhodesia. He has also succeeded in persuading South African cigarette-makers to reduce their purchases of Rhodesian tobacco. If he decides to pull out the Alouette helicopters used in Rhodesia's fight against black guerrillas, he could precipitate a crisis from which the Smith regime might not recover...