** Coalition for Gun Control (Canada) adds links atop home page concerning the issue of controlling fake guns: “Experts Agree: Fake Guns a Threat to Public Safety.”
http://www.guncontrol.ca/default-english.htm 

** Gun Control Alliance (South Africa) provides statistics that show falling overall murder rate, but rising firearm murder rate from 1994 to 1998.  [Bear in mind how difficult it is to obtain a firearm in South Africa -- for the lawful people, that is.]
http://www.gca.org.za/facts/statistics.htm 

** International Action Network on Small Arms reports on police raids of illegal gun factories in Xining, (capital of Quinhai Provence, China). Notes that firearm factories and firearm possession are increasing.
http://www.iansa.org/news/2000/nov_00/police_raid.htm 

** International Action Network on Small Arms reports that a knife is three times more likely than a gun to be used in armed robbery in southern Australia, and that criminals report choosing knives because they believe they will receive harsher sentences for using guns to commit crimes.
http://www.iansa.org/news/2000/nov_00/knives_weapons.htm 

** International Action Network on Small Arms reports on complaints about the United Nations’ inability to stop arms proliferation in Kenyan refugee camps.
http://www.iansa.org/news/2000/nov_00/fund_for_peace.htm 

NATIONAL

** Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms issues Federal Register notice about proposal to require identification markers in all imported explosives, including black powder. Comments – due Jan. 12 – can be e-mailed to nprm@atfhq.atf.treas.gov. Include your name, mailing address and email address. Reference notice # 906.
http://www.atf.treas.gov/explarson/notices/notice_906.pdf 

** Quote from Million Mom March November newsletter: “Recently over lunch my four year-old daughter asked me if there were still guns in America. I replied that yes, there were. She said, ‘But we marched in Washington DC! How can there be guns?’ I spent the next hour or so trying to explain the time it takes to change things.” 
http://www.millionmommarch.com/home/index.cfm?page=article&a_id=18 

** Tove Titus to donate portion of proceed from her book “How to Raise Kids without Ending up in Bankruptcy or on the Evening News” to the Million Mom March.
http://www.millionmommarch.com/home/index.cfm?page=article&a_id=18 

** Mothers Against Violence in America sets up e-commerce page with Greater Good in which on-line purchases through site will provide 5% of sales to MAVIA. Most major on-line retailers – including Amazon, Flowers.com, JC Penney, LL Bean, PetSmart and Walmart – are listed.
http://www.greatergood.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/GreaterGood.woa/wa/shoppingVillage?svid=mavia 

** Violence Policy Center turns its report on guns and women – which asserted that guns are not useful to women for self defense because most attackers are not strangers – into two fact sheets.
http://www.vpc.org/fact_sht/domviofs.htm 
http://www.vpc.org/fact_sht/womenfs.htm 

** Violence Policy Center creates poster that points out that teddy bears must pass flammability, small parts, sharp edges and hazardous materials safety standards, but guns do not.
http://www.vpc.org/teddy.htm 

STATES

** California list of handguns that passed state’s product safety tests grows to 78: Beretta (4 models), CZU SA (6 models), Magnum Research (2 models), Smith & Wesson (28 models), Sturm Ruger (38 models). No handgun may be made or sold in state after January 1 without passing these tests. Private party transfers are exempt.
http://caag.state.ca.us/firearms/certlist.htm 

** Iowans for the Prevention of Gun Violence give face lift to their web site.
http://www.ipgv.org/ 

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