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To: ManyMoose who wrote (156421)	6/28/2001 11:39:01 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE......''Has the Brady Law been effective? Yes - within the narrow definition of what it was intended to do. The law was never supposed to prevent legal sales or, all by itself, to significantly reduce gun crimes. It was expected to make life more difficult for criminals by denying them legal gun sales. Because the Brady-mandated background checks are carried out by a patchwork of state and local authorities, just how effective it has been is hard to say. By federal estimates, 40,000 felons have been kept from getting handguns. In West Virginia, for example, "we've had at least 180 denials this past year, and I think that no matter what, that's good," says Sergeant Thomas Barrick, who oversees background checks for the state police. "That to me is an effective law," says Richard Aborn, president of Handgun Control, the antigun lobby that helped write the bill and promoted it to victory. "We designed it to stop felons from buying guns, and it's doing that."