Show A BILLION DOLLAR BOONDOGGLE The basic annual cost of a thorough Federal Fed eral gun registration and owner licensing program program pro pro- gram has been estimated at by competent private researchers retained by the US U.S. Government This Imposing figure does not include State expenditures which as the research indicates indicates in in- would be necessary to tie together Federal and State gun controls in a tidy oppressive oppressive op op- burden to legitimate gun ownership The research report states that while computerization computerization com com- would prove helpful particularly in the Vapid rapid checking of an estimated LC 41 million mil mil- lion Hon or more printed finger American an In owners the cost of bf this massive gun gun regulation program would be in salaries for staff personnel In other words words It would appear that the program would Involve the building of a new State Federal-State bureaucracy Having said that we shall say further that bureaucracy never remains static It always always' grows Washington DC D.C. to is living over-crowded over proof of that Once Onte established a State Federal-State gun control control con con- system probably would In a few years cost the Nation a billion dollars a year or more Surely there are many better ways of Spending pen such a sum The avowed purpose of proposed gun controls controls con con- trois is to suppress crime We submit sub here and now that excessive bureaucracy is in itself a form of crime against democracy The philosophy b behind l that thought and statement is not exclusively ours We admit to being influenced by Thomas Jefferson The Th American Rifleman |