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has information that Congress will be passing laws that gun shows and anyone selling a gun at a gun show be responsible for filling out the proper paperwork on the buyer of a gun. He supports that and feels that anyone selling a firearm should be treated the same way as he is. He understood the city's concerns that a person not be able to buy a gun to commit a criminal act and noted that only 1% of gun owners commit crimes. His main concern is the cost of licensing and the cost to fingerprinthimself and staff. There is a cost to him of $820. This may not be a lot to a store like Walmart, but for a small business it is. There are 20,000 laws in the country against gun owners. More and more states are enacting laws against gun dealers. If you need all these fingerprints, the City should pay for them. He felt $350 a year was a sufficient fee. He cited the lower fees charged in other cities and the fact that they do not require fingerprints to do background checks. He asked if fingerprints were to be taken every year. Mr. Roush thought they would be required annually. Kimberly Rowland, 3650 Locke Court, indicated the fingerprint checks are done one time and the scantron or lifescan process updates annually. So only new employees would be required to have fingerprints. Two-thirds of the voters approved Measure G and they did that for safety and reduced accessibility to guns in Pleasanton. She objected to ammunition being accessible in the store aisles. She was told that was just shotgun shells, but she still believed all ammunition should be locked up. Her other issue was that Mr. Thomas and Walmart agreed to put surveillance video cameras in the firearms areas, but Outdoor World was given 90 days to install them and she felt one day without a camera was too long. She had concerns with staff recommendations 3, 4 and 5 regarding requirements for permit applications, fingerprinting, and background information. Her basic concern is that a person who does not have a background check and is working in the firearms department can show a weapon, initiate a sale and help a customer to complete a DROS (dealer record of sale) form. This is the most sensitive time in a gun purchase, when the sales clerk establishes the potential buyer's qualifications and state of mind. Ten days later the buyer comes back to pick up the gun and will deal with an employee who has had a background check, but that employee may not have been present at the initial contact. She felt the federal form and the follow- up is a technicality. That second person only verities identification and the completeness of the form. There is too much room for something to go wrong when dealing with a lethal product. She referred to the ASSC dealing with Congress to get gun show dealers to have the same responsibilities retail dealers have. The ASSC is the American Sport Shooting Council, which is a lobby that is working to bring gun shows up to speed. She would prefer that there not be gun shows at the Fairgrounds, but there is a federal firearm licensed dealer present at the gun shows. She believed that the costs Mr. Thomas complained of are the cost of doing business. If you want to sell guns in Pleasanton, that is what the voters approved. It costs $375,000 per firearm death; $800 one time and about $400 per year is not a lot to ask. She referred to an incident in a Utah Kmart where a young boy was allowed by a clerk who had not had the background check to purchase a firearm using a passport as identification. The young boy later committed suicide. The parents are now suing Kmart. She felt this was economically feasible for gun dealers to have this procedure and they are exposed to liability without it. Pleasanton City Council 20 06/01/99 Minutes