1.   Anyone who wants to buy a firearm must undergo a lengthy background check and interview with the police.

2.   Federal law prohibits convicted felons, the mentally incompetent and those convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors from buying firearms.

3.   Felons who seek to buy firearms could be sentenced to one to five years in prison.

4.   Gov. George Pataki said Friday that he would require a background check for anyone who buys a firearm at a gun show held on state property.

5.   Gore also called on Congress to pass a law requiring child safety locks on guns and requiring background checks for people who buy firearms at gun shows.

6.   Gun buyers would be required to certify, under penalty of perjury, that they were not foreigners prohibited by the law from buying firearms.

7.   In years past, many police officers were themselves licensed dealers, buying firearms for other officers.

8.   McCain and Lieberman are pushing for a kind of mandatory background check for people buying firearms at gun shows that would be more stringent than the one Bush supports.

9.   Our desire to defend ourselves from terrorism by buying firearms will mean, almost certainly, that thousands more Americans will die in the years ahead from gunfire.

10.   Since the attack at Columbine, the Senate passed a bill requiring background checks on everyone who buys a firearm at a gun show.