Senator JAVITS. Also, Mr. Chairman, I would like actually to include in the record two, I believe, significant excerpts from the Warren report. It is absolutely true, as the Chair has said, that the basis for these hearings is not the national tragedy of President Kennedy's assassination. But certainly the assassination's effect on the country, in an unparalleled way, will affect what goes on here. The two excerpts I will read are as follows. One is from the top of page 119 of the report, and the other one is from 121 of the report:

According to its microfilm records, Klein's

The very outfit referred to by the chairman

received an order for a rifle on March 13, 1963, on a coupon clipped from the February 1963 issue of American Rifleman magazine. The order coupon was signed, in hand printing, "A. Hidell, post office box 2915, Dallas, Tex." It was sent in an envelope bearing the same number and return address in handwriting.

Then the report details how the rifle was shipped, and describes the weapon-as is shown there on the board-a rifle with a telescopic sight. Then the report goes on to state as follows, at page 121:

Postal Inspector Harry D. Holmes of the Dallas post office testified, however, that when a package is received for a certain box, a notice is placed in that box regardless of whether the name on the package is listed on the application as a person entitled to receive mail through that box. The person having access to the box then takes the notice to the window and is given the package. Ordinarily, Inspector Holmes testified, identification is not requested, because it is assumed that the person with the notice is entitled to that package.

Now, Mr. Chairman, with the greatest honor to the Chair for launching this kind of an inquiry, it is nevertheless true that any American reading this Warren report should have his hair stand up at this, that the assassin of the President was able to purchase the rifle with which the President was killed without ever revealing his true identity to anyone, with the most complete anonymity. It is only because this occurred to so great an American that the country was alarmed by it.

I do not think it is at all inappropriate, Mr. Chairman, to mention this incident in close relationship to the earnest consideration of appropriate legislation. I think it is our responsibility to refer to this most tragic event in the light of consideration of legislation.

Now, Mr. Chairman, there are two other points I would like to make. One is that I think there is one other thing in addition to crime which we must keep an eye on, and as to which I would invoke the attention of the Chair, if I may, because I think it is important.

We hear a lot about private armies in this country, the Minutemen and other people who are supposed to be training with weapons in orderly formations for the purpose of taking to the hills when the Communists come. Now, this can be a very subversive thing and a very dangerous thing. Apparently there are enough weapons floating around, including the heavy weapons described by the chairman, to make this possible.

Now, I have no illusions, I have been involved in law enforcement too long, myself, to assume that you can eliminate all crime and illegality. But I would hope very much, Mr. Chairman, that in our consideration of legislation we would also consider arms in the hands of extremists, who think they are some super force to protect the United States against itself, which force could be misused to launch