and this happens to be from the American Sportsman's Foundation, Inc., of Hanover, N.J. Senator DODD. Without objection, I would like to have that made a part of the record. (The document referred to was marked "Exhibit No. 6" and is as follows:) EXHIBIT No. 6 SEE IMPORTANT NOTICE PAGE 4 FOR SALE HUNTING FOR SALE choke. FOR SALE 27" bbl.. list FOR SALE FOR SALE hammerless S&W 22 cal. Army wate 155 good plus, Win mod 12 31 Collection of . mag with de Colle 35mm, the lot £35 man training. bbl 30-30 re Say, Brod. 99. oct 165 Screwdrivers. Mich POWDER: Hodgon 4831, 100 lb. $51. prepaid. 50 Hunting, Gunsmithing. Wild- lbs. $25.95 collect: 5M Pri guns now. Quote best list variable. Rangefinder. SILVER Dollars, bright un- BUSHNELL Scope Chief II. TRIUS trap, mechanical NEED Parkers & Fox shotClary target trap, list 3x-9x circulated rolls of 20: new, mod. 500T deluxe ear valves only description. Also buy Ithaset with leather holster, 5X 1879 S. $35.; 1881 S. $35.: $99.50. sale $74.50; Bush- $29.95, sale $24.95: Lee price & give accurate NRA telescope eyepiece. list 1885 O. $35.: 1902 O. $35.: nell Banner 3x-9x varia- Sonic TF-2 $29.95. $21.95. Esman's. Any 3 rolls assorted dates, ble, list $49.50, sale $25.50 $3.95 pd., everything ppd cas & Smiths. Reliable leigh. No. Car. $100: 1904 O. $44.50: 1898 ppd.: Free scope & reload- Esman's. Turtle Creek 4. Loan Co., Box 2745. RaTurtle Creek 4. Penna. BUSHNELL Spacemaster ITHACA 16 ga. dbl. tais bbis, bores dark, sold re Turtle tle Creek 4. Penna. Esman's. SPECIAL Notice. O. $57.50. 2 rolls $110.: Pre-ing catalog: Esman's, Tur- Penna. paid: tion. $43 (60mm Obj.) with 25X Powder Creek 4, Penna. GUNS. 1000's to choose Hodgdon from. New. Used. Trades eyepiece, list $95., sale Kittridge Cinn, 0, markings abolat prices going up as of July 1 on #4831, HS70, VALUES: Redding Hunter powder & bullet scale, made. Bargains. Esman. $75.95; Sentry 50mm spot-found bail molds, all are old. H870, 5010. Last list $14.50. sale $10.95: 624 Penn Ave.. Turtle ting scope with 20X eye- lot for 197.50: B&W eat. New Dept piece. list $54.50, sale with pearl grips. 90% orig. 110. $44.75: Ppd.: Esman's, Tur- luxe fore stock, nice. $110 tion of 34 film strips on Ford saten chance at low prices. Redding Master powder Creek 4. Penna. 100 Lb. drum, $51. pre- measure. list $18.50. sale Bargains. Flite King depaid. 50 Lb., $25.95; 20 $13.95: Forester case trim-HIGH Std.. new shotguns, the Creek Penna fit most guns. Free Postpaid 7 man size handles $3 35: Ali qut. Midway Arms H 1. AURLb. $15.95. 10 1 lb. mer. list $14.25, sale $10.95; Inertia bullet puller, list luxe 12 ga.. rib 30" full, list MASTRA Gun Caddy, sizes to to protection. Esman's-Turtle usa. cans, $15.; Shipping $7.70, sale $5.50; Ohaus $99.95. sale $77.50: Flite $115.95, sale $89.95: Flite Creek 4, Pa. charges collect on all powder & bullet scale, list King trap 12 ga.. 30". list Price list Your gun is entitled MO shipments under 100 $19.50. sale $15.60: Lyman King Trophy 20 ga.. adj. BOOKS for the Sportsman on lbs. Price increase = 55 powder measure, list will be 30% or more, $16.. sale $13: Hollow $105.95. sale $85.: Flite life. Outdoors, etc.. prepaid mers, $5.95 per M prepaid buy now & save. Es- ground screw drivers for man's, Turtle Creek 4, gunsmiths, list $8., sale King field. 20 ga.. 26" full Free list: Eeman's. Turtle Cre $6.50: Everything prepaid; or mod., list $79.95, sale 4. Penna. 6-2 Esman's, Turtle Creek 4. $64.95. Ppd.; "Good Luck REM Dist. Co.". Box 71. Turtle hextr VG gun appro to be Penna. LOWEST Scope Prices: Penna. New. latest models. SHOOTER'S Glasses, met20x-50x. list Hamilton, Lanah. Di Redfield 3x-9x. list $99.50. al framed, 8mm bridge SWIFT "Zoom" spotting $67.50: 2x-7x list with crow bar & case, B&L best offer: mag.. $34.50 sale $63.95: FCH. style, large amber lens, $115.. sale $66.; Swift MCH. HCH, add $13.10 for list $9.. sale $4.95. 2 for spotting scope 15x-60x, 5 CUSTOM 300 Win. A JEW $53.95: Swift spotting Robert Dethloff, 625 Accu-Range style, add $8.50 ppd.: Esman's. Turtle eye pieces, list $89.95. sale $6.10 for post scope 20x. list $45., sale Willow Lane, South Bausch & Lomb. list $99.50. Sale $69.95: Weatherby 2x. SILVER dollars. bright un- $32.50: All scopes include Milwaukee, Wis. circulated 1879 S. 1880 tripods. Everything ppd.: 53172. 7y, list $99.50. sale $71.50; Unertl, Bushnell, Leupold S. 1881 S. 1882 S. 1883 O. Esman's, Turtle Creek 4. prices on request. Scopes 1884 O. 1885. 1885 O, 1902 Penna. O. 1922. set of 10 only. Esman's Turtle ppd.: $19.95. set of 5 $10.95: FIREARMS International Creek 4. Penna. Valmet O&U shotguns, Roll set, $350. Indian WANTED to Buy. Pay- head pennies, asst. roll of 12 ga., 30" bbl.. M&F, F&F, IC&M. new factory ing top Dealer $$$, 50. $12.95; Liberty V nick- 26' all types shotguns, ri- els, asst. roll of 40 $8.95: guaranteed, list $189.95. Ppd. Free coin lists: Es sale $129.95 ppd.: Esfles. handguns, man's. Turtle Creek 4. man's. Turtle Creek 4. scopes. Fast Deals, Penna. write description & B&L 10X telescope. com FREE Catalog, mon- 100 Lb. prepaid: Kessel. data furnished. Deal case, list price: Esman's, Turtle plete with Creek 4, Penna. $10.95. sale $8.49: B&L 20X SHOT Reloading: Based telescopes, list $24.95, sale $19.95 ppd.; Esman's. Turprices. Chilled shot sizes tle Creek 4. Penna. on current lead market) xpl Harvard Rd., Piedmont Calif. ey saving values, ring Gun Shop, Burling. er inquiries invited. 5-2 FOB Merriam, Kans. Midwest Game Sup5937 Merriam nationally advertised ton. Wash. material for the shoot-Tor. Shouters Hornets, custon target grips for ply, er, fast shipments: Es-saw mod, 41, 28 NEW Hay PatSuperstre ke Dr., Merriam, Kans. 1, $10. ea.: 8. E Langly in l HEdrick 2-7522. TF-2 4 thru 10, packed in LEE rifle, shotgun or hand- man's, Turtle Creek, rol, 22 Hi Sut gun loaders, list $9.95. Penna. 25 lb. bags at $23.60 per 100. minimum order 1000 sale $7.49; C-H or RCBS edition $2.35 43rd man lbs. Full freight allowed to rifle & pistol dies. list RELOADING Handbooks. Ly all states except Oregon. $13.50. sale $9.95 ppd.: Es Speer Manual 6. $2.75: HandNevada, man's. Turtle Creek 4. loaders Digest $2.49: EveryCalif.. Idaho, thing ppd Eaman's. Turtle Utah, Ariz., these are FOB Penna. Creek 4. Penna. Dallas. Texas. Esman's, 1965 STOEGERS Bible. 1965 Turtle Creek 4. Penna. Gun Digest both for $5.75: RCBS reloaders. spl RCBS Stoegers. $2.65. Page 4 MAY 15, 1965 THE SHOTGUN NEWS, COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA Closing Dates, 1 and 15 of the Month ATTENTION Sportsmen - Target Shooters - Arms Collectors - Firearms Dealers This is to alert you to the most serious anti-firearms legislation ever proposed. On March 22, 1965 Senator Dodd of Conn., introduced into the U.S. Senate another firearms control Bill (S-1592)—which has the backing of PRESIDENT JOHNSON and his administration. An identical bill (HR. 6628) was introduced into the House of Representatives by Congressman Murphy of New York. A resume of these bills indicates: 3. ANY WEAPON over 50 caliber would fall into the "DESTRUCTIVE DEVISES" category and would require a Dealers License of $1000.00 a year, this would include your ANTIQUE GUNS, FLINTLOCKS, PERCUSSIONS, ČIVIL WAR CARBINES. MUSKETS, etc. Private Individuals could not possess or purchase any weapon over 50 caliber. 4. They prohibit the sale or shipment in interstate commerce of any type of gun between persons, 5. RELOADERS: Those who reload .38 Special ammunition for resale and shotgun shells for their club take note: A Manufacturer's License of $1000.00 a year would be required. ANYONE who reloads ammuntion for resale would be affected by this. 6. Prohibit the sale of a gun over the counter to anyone who does not live in the state where the sale is made. 7. Gives the Secretary of the Treasury broad regulatory powers which could result in total registration of arms. TIME IS RUNNING OUT--EVERY ONE OF US---OUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS MUST WRITE--- Be courteous and brief but to the point --- WRITE NOW! Word has just been received that PUBLIC HEARINGS on the DODD BILL will be held MAY 19, 1965 HERE'S WHAT YOU SHOULD DO Write every member of the HEARING COMMITTEE: Chairman Senator Thomas Dodd and Senators Philip Hard, Birch Bayh, Quentin Burdick, Joseph Tidings, Roman H. Hruska, Herman Fong, Jacob Javits at the U. S. Senate, Washington, D. C, asking for revision of the DODD BILL to help the Sportsman, HUNTER and GUN LOVER and to impose a MANDATORY PUNISHMENT for a Crime committed with a gun. Write Representative Wilbur D. Mills, Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. requesting PUBLIC HEARINGS on Bill HR 6628. Write your U.S. Senators and Representatives in Washington stating your opinion of the above Bills and urging them not to support same but to support a MIS-USE OF FIREARMS BILL. Specifically ask them to vote against $1591 $1592 - $1180-$1148- ask them to support the Casey Bill HR 5642 - a mis-use of firearms bill). Write to President Johnson, The White House, Washington, D.C. a similar letter to that outlined to the Senators and Representatives. KEEP INFORMED OF GUN LEGISLATION AT YOUR STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT – Remember that not all gun legislation is bad – many existing laws need modifying. WRITE your STATE GOVERNOR, ASSEMBLYMEN AND SENATORS asking them to SUPPORT MIS-USE OF FIREARMS BILLS and ask for PUBLIC HEAR- Our Goal---1,000,000 Letters to Protect Our Sport and Our Hobby SUPPORT - The American Sportsmen's Foundation, Inc. 61 Ernston Road Parlin, New Jersey A National Organization for the promotion of Shooting Sports and Wholesome Gun Legislation. Senator DODD. The point is, Mr. Attorney General, this is characteristic of the outrageous misrepresentations that are spread across the country about this bill. Attorney General KATZENBACH. Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee, there can be no more valid domestic concern today than the increasing growth, the increasing sweep, and the increasing vio 49-588-65--4 lence of crime. Crime is increasing in the cities. It is increasing in rural areas. It is increasing, most rapidly of all, in the suburbs. The national crime rate has doubled since 1940. Just since 1958, it has increased at a rate five times faster than the rate of population growth and just between 1963 and 1964, the FBI's Uniform Crime Statistics inform us, serious crimes increased by 250,000-a jump of 13 percent. These are figures which hardly require elaboration. The physical and fiscal toll of crime is learned anew each day in every city and community. What does require elaboration, however-what requires our most urgent and responsible attention is what we-the Federal Government and the Congress of the United States-are going to do about it. President Johnson expressed the urgency of his concern about crime in a special message to Congress 2 months ago: He asked the Congress to enact legislation to make it easier to fight organized crime. He asked Congress to pass new antinarcotics legislation, soon to be submitted. He asked you to give the Federal Government authority to provide assistance to experimental approaches to law enforcement. And, calling for a "sensible use of Federal authority to assist local authorities in coping with an undeniable menace to law and order and to the lives of innocent people," the President asked Congress to establish reasonable regulations on interstate shipments of the tools with which criminals work-guns. We received a clear illustration of the need for S. 1592, the bill we meet to consider today, in the recent report of a wager made by Mayor Francis Graves, of Paterson, N.J., to show how easy it is to buy a gun by mail. He ordered a .22 caliber revolver from a mail-order house in Chicago. Other than his name, address, and a money order for $13.95 he sent no information. After the weapon arrived, the mayor noted: "The company that sent me this gun had no way of knowing whether I was a convicted murderer, what my intentions were, or whether I was 5 years old or 105 years old." He could have added, as well, that the company had no way of knowing his true identity or address. It had no way of knowing whether he was prohibited by State or local law from owning the gun he had purchased. And he could have added that even if the company knew this information, it was likely to be of little interest to it. There can be little alarm about the responsible mayor of a large city buying a pistol by mail. But there should be the greatest alarm about the scores of weapons bought every day by mail, many of them by persons who should not, either because of age, competency, or criminal record, lawfully possess them. The story of the Paterson mayor is only a single example. The subcommittee has received evidence disclosing that in 1963 alone, some 1 million "dangerous weapons" were sold by mail order. It has also been disclosed that over a 3-year period in Chicago, 4,000 persons bought weapons from only two mail-order dealers and that of these, fully one-fourth had criminal records. Almost every edition of every major newspaper carries stories reporting crimes involving guns. Most often we read of hand guns. But it remains a fact that fully 30 percent of all murders committed by firearms involve rifles and shotguns. These are facts of which we are rapidly becoming more urgently aware. There is a gathering momentum of sorrow, outrage, and commonsense concerning the deadly uses to which firearms are put. J. Edgar Hoover has observed forcefully: The spotlight of public attention should be focused on the easy accessibility of firearms and its influence on willful killings. Where local controls and regulations exist, they should be fully implemented. Where there are none, measures should be taken to protect the public's interest. Loss of human lives cannot be rationalized-certainly not until all possible preventive action has been exhausted. When the chairman of this subcommittee introduced S. 1592 on March 22, he noted that: FBI information demonstrates that in those areas where firearms regulations are lax, the homicide rate by firearms is substantially higher than in those areas where there are more stringent controls. In Dallas, Tex., and Phoenix, Ariz., where firearms regulations are practically nonexistent, the percentage of homicides committed by guns in 1963 was 72 percent in Dallas and 65.9 percent in Phoenix. In cities where there are strong regulations we have the following figures: Chicago, 46.4 percent; Los Angeles, 43.5 percent; Detroit, 40 percent; and Philadelphia, 36 percent. And in New York City-which has been disparaged in many ways as being thought of by some as the center of crime in Americawith its much maligned Sullivan law, the rate of murder by gun was 25 percent. Thus, regulation has made a strong impact on this situation even though the uncontrolled interstate traffic makes it easy to evade the law. Senator JAVITS. Will the witness yield? Let me say it is all too rare that we hear a good word for New York. I am grateful to the Attorney General. Attorney General KATZENBACH. The words are from your chairman, Senator Javits. Senator JAVITS. I appreciate the chairman's views. Attorney General KATZENBACH. Mr. Chairman, in a country in which more than half the 9,300 murders in 1964 were committed with firearms, many of them assuredly obtained by mail, congressional action is called for now. In a country in which half the 20,000 suicides of 1963 were committed with firearms, many of them assuredly obtained by mail, congressional action is called for now. In a country in which 26,000 aggravated assaults and the vast majority of 64,000 armed robberies were committed last year with firearms, congressional action is called for now. In a country in which 216 law enforcement officers have been murdered with firearms in the past 5 years, compared with only 9 by other means, congressional action is called for now. And in a country which has lost four Presidents to assassins' bullets, including the wrenching shock of November 22, 1963, congressional action is called for now. As long as I live, I can never forget that it was a mail-order rifle— sent to a post office box that had been rented under an assumed name by a man with an established record of defection and mental instability-that killed President Kennedy. I might add, Mr. Chairman, that it was a mail order pistol that the same man used to commit murder upon a police officer. It is for these compelling reasons of public interest and public safety that the administration has proposed and most vigorously supports S. 1592, to control the mail order sale of guns. This measure is not intended to curtail the ownership of guns among those legally entitled to own them. It is not intended to deprive people of guns used either for sport or for self-protection. It is not intended to force regulation on unwilling States. The purpose of this measure is simple: It is, merely, to help States protect themselves against the unchecked flood of mail order weapons to residents whose purposes might not be responsible, or even lawful. S. 1592 would provide such assistance to the extent that the States and the people of the States want it. First, the central provision of this measure is one which prohibits unlicensed persons from transporting, shipping, or receiving firearms in interstate or foreign commerce. It is this provision which eliminates the unarguable evils of mail order traffic in weapons. Sportsmen could continue to take their shotguns or rifles across State lines. Pistols could continue to be carried in conformity with present State laws. But no longer could hundreds and thousands of persons with criminal records buy weapons interstate from mail order dealers nor could the dealers sell to them. Sales would be made by local dealers and thus be subjects of local recordkeeping. These records would then have new meaning: they would not be rendered futile by a flow of mail order guns. I think it is safe to say that this result alone would earn the committee and the Congress. the gratitude of law enforcement officers in all parts of the country. Second, a retail gun dealer would be required to limit his sales of hand guns to persons who are residents of his State and to limit all sales of weapons to those eligible by age and State and local law to own them. The age minimum established is 21 years, except for rifles and shotguns for which the age is 18. Third, the bill would raise the annual license fees from the present token $1 for a dealer and $25 for a manufacturer to realistic figures, calculated to discourage applications from persons not genuinely in the firearms business. This provision is designed to bring about a higher level of responsibility in the firearms trade. Fourth, another strengthening amendment would give the Secretary of the Treasury reasonable discretion as to who should be licensed to manufacture, import or deal in the deadly weapons with which the Federal Firearms Act is concerned. The bill before this subcommittee does not address itself to the question of permits, leaving it to the States and local communities to decide what they need and want in that regard. While the bill does limit the sales of handguns to persons over 21 years of age and that of shotguns and rifles to persons over 18 years of age, it does not address itself to whether persons under 21 and 18, respectively, should be permitted to use guns. That question and its resolution also is left to the States and communities. By and large, the States are free to have such firearms controls as they consider desirable within their boundaries. |