Elsewhere in the catalog are found illustrated instructions for concealing the Derringer under a sports shirt, in a shoe, in a pack of cigarettes, in a handkerchief, and under a book.

The juvenile incidents are always the most appalling and serve to best illustrate the firearms problems which confront our society today. Imported surplus weapons have proved especially troublesome in connection with juveniles. Thousands of firearms not suitable for lawful sporting purposes have been dumped onto the market here at prices which attract juveniles. A case in point, and one which continues to have ramifications in California, was the importation of the so-called starter pistol from West Germany. It was a cheap model which produced only sound rather than the customary flash. I have one here. It is a pistol, a small pistol and it probably could frighten one. But the evil of this is while allegedly it is to make a noise, by pointing it at the right angle, it could fire lead into a person. It is a lethal weapon.

Juveniles found that this type of starter pistol, which previously had not been classified as a "firearm" in our State, could fire .22-caliber ammunition. Over the past 8 years this type of gun has been used in hundreds of felony crimes committed by youngsters in the Metropolitan Los Angeles area.

Law-enforcement men have said that for every pistol used to start a race, 10 have been used in some crime.

It may be ballistically true that a .22-caliber weapon is not lethal, but it certainly can be brutal. Persons have been blinded by this starter gun and its force has also broken arms and fractured facial bones. The weapon has now been brought within dangerous weapon regulations but thousands are in circulation, placed there by an ìmporter who sold them for a fraction of the cost of a genuine starter pistol.

This weapon was sold by mail throughout the United States. For a time it was the leading mail-order item for two California dealers, one in San Francisco and the other based in Los Angeles. Our classification of it as a "dangerous weapon," of course, did not halt the mailorder sales into other States. They have continued to flourish, I am told.

I am glad to see the proposed legislation would prevent a repetition of this deplorable episode. I doubt that this weapon could ever qualify as a gun suitable for lawful sporting purposes. Should it be imported, we are at least assured under the bill that it would not be mailed out like a boxtop premium.

If young people appear unduly preoccupied with weapons, if they seem overly susceptible to the mail-order lure, and if they evade our present laws to obtain guns, we perhaps should not be too surprised. Instead of searching our psyches, and those of our youngsters, it would be greater to face the task of reducing the opportunity to evade the law, to succumb to the mail-order lure, and to obtain weapons and destructive devices indiscriminately. I believe we are facing this task in S. 1592.

California law today partially covers some of the problems dealt with in S. 1592. We have during this session of the California Legislature proposed certain limited additions to California law. I believe our laws follow the same guideline followed by the proposed Federal