I know this forward is on the edge, but notice the request for increased wiretap capability. Besides, it is funny. --Lucky ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 96 11:10:26 PDT From: Bruce Erickson <be1@ElSegundoCA.NCR.COM> To: ca-firearms@lists.best.com Subject: But first, something completely different... Motorcycle gangs, Banditos and Hell's Angeles, in Scandanavia have been fighting for a couple years. A previous story in this paper described how Hell's Angles broke into a Danish prison to throw a hand grenade into the cell of the Banditos' president. Our friends who want to ban mouse guns don't know what trouble is possible. It is possible to get anti-tank missiles on the black-market. [story] "Nordic summit on Biker Violence" Saskis Sissons "The Eurpoean" 10-16 October 1996 Denmark's justice minister justice has called a summit to discuss a joint Nordic campaign against the biker gangs whose violent confrontations are posing an increasing danger to the public throught the region. Bjorn Westh, who is said to be shocked and furious at the latest violence which left 2 people dead and 19 ingured after a rocket attack in Copenhagen, will meet his cunterparts from Sweden, Norway and Finland to consider strategies against the gangs. A justice ministry spokeswoman said: "It will ve an exchange of ideas between the ministers. It's a very serious situation in Denmark at the moment abd these levels of violence could easily spread to other parts of Scandanivia. Westh is looking into the possibility of a total ban on the gangs but his priority is to secure the safety of civilians." Westh's initiative follows a meeting on 7 Octobe bwtewen Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Tasmussen and Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson, who promised their countries would fight the bikers together. Calls for concerted national and regional action against the escalating gang warfare have been mounting. Only last week 1000 staged a demonstration outside the Hell's Angles compound at Titagade in Copenhagen's Norrebro district. A few days later were awakened in the early morning by an anti-tank rocket exploding in the bikers' clubhouse. [btw: this is the second missile attack on the HAs this year. the first was in the late spring] After months of prevarication the Danes have resolved to take tough action against the gangs. Parliament is this week rushing through legislation which will prevent members of the feuding Hell's Angles and Banditos meeting at their clubhouses in populated areas, and a national task force has been set up to combat the gangs. Commander Per Larsen, who is heading the new unit, said: "The new legislation is good news for us and we are pleased with the initiatives of the prime minuster and justiice ministers. But we would like to see parliament giving us further powers to bug and phone-tap suspects and to search houses secretly." The feud, which began in 1994, has claimed 9 lives and injured 50 people throughout the region. [end story] Diane: "We need stronger tank missile controls. Ban the sale of cheap easily concealed tank missiles. Require licensing and training classes. Store them at missile clubs" Tanya: "There is already total prohibition on the possession of tank missiles by private citizens and murder is still illegal." Diane: "Be quiet, this is a fund raising event."