| Show r Moss Free ree 22 Ammo Amino Senator Frank E. E Moss Utah D-Utah today voiced support for a abill bill which would remove remove remove re re- re- re move registration requirements requirements requirements require require- ments for the purchase of 22 caliber ammunition A SIMILAR measure was passed 6 by toe the lI House use at l p- p on Dec Dee 21 by byan byan byan an overwhelming margin of oC to 59 Senator Moss had planned to offer the House passed measure to some other bill pending in the Senate but this was not necessary when the Senate Finance Committee Committee Committee Com Com- finally reported the Senate bill It is hoped the Senate can take action on the measure before ad ad- The bill would repeal the registration requirements imposed imposed imposed im im- im- im posed by passage of the Gun Control Act of 1968 which Senator Moss voted against The 1968 bill was passed largely as a result of the assassinations of President Kennedy Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy SENATOR Moss said today A minority of us in the Senate as deeply concerned abo about t the tragic assassinations as anyone else warned that passage of such restrictive legislation was not in the best interest of the nation We told supporters of the bill that it would not solve the fight against crime and violence but would rather provide only a hindrance and unnecessary red tape lipon law abiding citizens and government agencies involved involved involved in in- in the required record keeping Time lime has proven our position correct he added Crime has not stopped nor has it diminished since that bill was passed Instead it has continued to grow at a disturbing rate I WOULD hope that even the most avid supporter of the bill now would realize that a criminal whose entire entire entire en en- tire function in life is to disobey the law will not suddenly become a law abiding citizen just because Congress has asked him to register his gun and ammunition ammunition ammunition am am- purchase Senator Moss noted that 45 billion rounds of 22 caliber ammunition are purchased purchased pur pur- chased each year in the United States involving 30 million individual sales On each of the 30 million sales the law requires a record be kept of the date of transaction transaction trans trans- action name of the manufacturer manufacturer manufacturer manu manu- caliber of ammu- ammu In m J a dr a e or of the J purchaser Seu and es method used to establish the identity of the purchaser IF THESE records were assisting the fight against crime the alleged original point of legislation none ofus of ofus ofus us would object to the paper work But the plain fact is that the records have not helped in any way to stop crime Senator Moss noted that a representative of the Justice Department in testimony before before before be be- fore the House committee stated that hat there is us not nota a single known instance where any of this record recordkeeping recordkeeping recordkeeping keeping has led to a successful successful successful success success- ful investigation of a crime NOTING that Congress has already removed the requirements requirements requirements require require- ments from shotgun and sporting sporting sport sport- ing ammunition Senator Moss said Federal gun control control control con con- has been on the books for two years It has proven to be a monumental failure We should pass this legislation legislation legislation legis legis- lation with the same overwhelming overwhelming overwhelming over over- whelming margin as did the House |
