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Message 00341: Re: atf db



OK. I keep thinking there should be a page listing the stuff you have
to pay for to get it from .gov and links to free sources online. guess
i  should put that together

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Carl Malamud <xxxxxxx@media.org> wrote:
>
> On Oct 6, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Aaron Swartz wrote:
>
>> Dunno if you're interested in mirroring it, but here's the database I
>> got from ATF.gov yesterday:
>>
>> http://watchdog.net/data/crawl/atf/
>>
>> It's a list of registered gun dealers.
>>
>> RETAIL PRICE: $15
>> OUR PRICE: Free!
>>
>
> heh.
>
> no, I don't think I want to go generally after all .gov ... I'm trying to
> focus on legal materials and video, with a few diversions like irs.  but,
> list of gun dealers isn't necessarily useful unless you can start
> aggregating this stuff into a bigger package ... happy to mirror a bundle of
> that kind of stuff, but the onesy-twosy is too distracting.  I run the
> laziest kind of mirror ... I'm looking for big, infrequent chunks that I
> don't have to do anything with.  :)
>
> Carl
>