1.   Another proposal would permit the firearms bureau to temporarily suspend the licenses of dealers who sold guns used in crimes without going through a time-consuming hearing process.

2.   At the crime lab, run by the firearms bureau, an agent had sifted through thousands of pending gun trace requests filed by Mexico.

3.   After the show, agents with the firearms bureau will take calls from people who may have information regarding the case.

4.   But the framework of gun laws, including the powers granted the firearms bureau, has not kept pace with this information.

5.   Delfay said the new provision would require dealers at gun shows to send a record of each sale to the firearms bureau.

6.   Ginsburg then put the resources of the firearms bureau to work, greatly increasing the number of crime guns it traced.

7.   He added in passing that as treasury secretary he has been spending far more time with issues involving the firearms bureau than he had ever anticipated.

8.   In testimony later Friday, John Magaw, director of the firearms bureau, said the issue of entrapment was a question of credibility.

9.   Meanwhile, an agent of the firearms bureau posed as an organized crime figure from Miami who wanted the guns for his underworld activities.

10.   Officials with the firearms bureau in Washington said bombings nationwide appear to be on the rise.