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incompetence subject to court order, related domestic violence or
stalking - that was added last year.  Dishonorable discharge from
the armed services, renounced US citizenship, underaged persons,
illegal aliens.  And then, I will add a new one:  convicted of
violent crime and juvenile offenses.  It's a new category.  If
you're a juvenile and you commit a violent crime, you go into
that system.  And I think it's high time that they should.
(Applause.)
Yesterday, President Clinton announced supportive efforts by ATF
to locate the source of guns used by young criminals.  And
there's nothing wrong with the idea. It's the same idea they
announced three years.  It was a good idea then.  But I believe
the issue isn't just tracking down guns in the hands of violent
youth.  The real issue is keeping the guns out of their hands in
the first place; that's the priority we place on instant check.
To keep them out of their hands, you know, I could go to the
second step outlined by the Clinton Administration, tracking them
down later.  And, unlike the current federal waiting period, the
instant check won't apply just to handguns, but to all guns - all
guns.  Again, I would say that for the benefit of some in the
media.
And that's the critical point.  We've had a ban on so-called
assault weapons, but let's be realistic.  Of the seventeen
weapons that were specifically outlawed, eleven are already back
on the market in some other form. So what I say, let's
move...That we've moved beyond the debate, in my view, over
banning assault weapons.  Sounds good, it's a nice sound byte.
You can say it on television and everybody thinks they're safe.
But we've got to move beyond the sound bytes, as somebody said.
We've got to move beyond banning assault weapons.  And instead of
endlessly debating which guns to ban, we ought to be emphasizing
that what works and what's been tried in the great state...the
Commonwealth of Virginia and other states.  And we've seen here
what works.  We've seen an instant check on handguns, shotguns,
rifles, all guns, period.  All guns, period.  And that's the
system that we should have.
If we're not talking about a period of five days or even of five
hours.  We're talking two to three minutes, that should be our
goal.  If you're doing it here, no doubt about it, the people of
Virginia are safer because of it.  And it just seems to me we
ought to do it for all Americans.  Plus, you'd be even more safe
in Virginia because they wouldn't be able to bring guns in they
can buy somewhere else.  And with your help, we're going to start
all this next January.  But the important part, as I said at the
outset, there's nothing partisan about this.  The bills that I've
sponsored, the memos I've offered have been supported, I think,
by Democrats and Republicans for the most part.  Most of us
believe there's got to be a better way.  Maybe some things are
working, maybe they're not.  But we know this works, the instant
check works in seventeen states.  Why not make it work in fifty
states?  And that will be the goal that I believe we can complete
without your help and with the cooperation of all those in
Congress and elsewhere.  Complete by the end of 1997.  And I
believe it's a commendable goal that we ought to get done.
(Applause)
So thank you very much, and God bless America.  Thank you.
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