1.   And the makers this week insisted the armor-piercing Black Rhino will be sold only to police and licensed firearms dealers.

2.   Boston sees a large decline in the number of firearms dealers following enactment of the Brady Law.

3.   Bush said he favors a federal approach because the law now says only federal firearms dealers who have established storefronts must conduct checks.

4.   Eisenhower said he told the ATF agent that his department had traded the Glock to a local licensed firearms dealer after finding it unsatisfactory for police work.

5.   He blames that problem on the federal firearms laws the ATF has to enforce, which limit the records that firearms dealers are required to keep.

6.   It takes an access code, and those only go to federally licensed firearms dealers.

7.   It would also increase ATF inspections of firearms dealers and improve record-keeping of domestic violence offenders.

8.   Provisions in the Brady law and the crime law give the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms added power to regulate federally licensed firearms dealers.

9.   Such checks are mandatory on sales by licensed firearms dealers, and Democrats had proposed closing this so-called loophole to include gun show sales between private persons.

10.   The bill also would have required licensed firearms dealers to post notices regarding the criminal implications of selling guns to prohibited buyers.