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Excerpts of 1982 report on 2nd amendment from
Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee(89k)
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Selected parts of the 1982 House hearings on KTW ammo(67k)
This is excerpts of a 1982 Subcommittee
on Crime, House Judiciary Committee, hearing on the dreaded KTW,
and other, armor piercing handgun ammo. This includes testimony
from Dr. Paul Kopsch, who was one of the people who invented KTW,
John Thompson the president of North American Ordnance Corp, which
marketed the ammo, as well as testimony by Rep. Mario Biaggi before
the Calif. state legislature, in favor of a ban subsequently enacted
there.
These next three are the hearings held on ATF abuses in the 1970-80
time frame, one of the grounds for the NRA's recent "jack-booted thugs"
remark. Interestingly, the stuff noted here isn't anything compared
to the recent stuff. No one here got killed, for instance. The
complaints here were of entrapment, frame ups, and harassment.
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Senate Appropriations Committee hearings on ATF, July 1979, excerpt(205k)
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continued(137k)
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continued(206k)
This is the first part of Oversight hearings on the
BATF, in 1979, by the Senate Appropriations Committee. It includes
nearly all the testimony and responses from the ATF, as well as
testimony from the NRA, David Moorhead, a disabled Vietnam vet gunsmith
subject to a ridicuous prosecution, J. Curtis Earl, an NFA dealer
subjected to many years of attempted set-ups and surveillance, and
at the time undergoing a license revocation attempt by ATF for charges
they couldn't convince a grand jury to indict on, and Richard Lindsey,
a FL gun dealer subjected to a FFL revocation attempt based on apparent
lies by ATF. This file will be divided into two pieces, for easier
wrangling, with the second part being the ATF testimony, and some
written material added to the record after the hearing itself.
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Excerpt of hearing on ATF before Senate Appropriations Committee, part 2(12k)
This is a part 2 of the 1980 Senate Appropriations
Committee look at the conduct of the BATF. Only a very small excerpt
of this hearing is included. A letter from J Curtis Earl, following
up on the problems mentioned in the first hearing, as being unresolved.
He is still a class 3 dealer today (6/95) though...
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9/15/80 hearing excerpt on the ATF before Senate Judiciary Committee
subcommittee(39k)
This is a hearing on constitutional right abuses
by the BATF, from 1980, by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Only a
very small part of this hearing is included, testimony by David
Jewell, a gun collector from Colorado (who is now 6/95 a dealer).
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1984 hearings on ap ammo, machine guns, and silencers, excerpt(155k)
This is part of 1984 hearings in front of the
Subcommittee on Crime, House Judiciary Committee, on Armor Piercing
Ammo, and the Misue of Machineguns and Silencers. I have mostly included
material on machine guns and silencers. This includes testimony
from Stephen Higgins, and other ATF officials, testimony from John
Tighe, chief of police for Pembroke Pines, FL (a big time gun grabber
and very proud of it), and written asnwers from ATF to queries from
the Committee chariman, William Hughes (D- N.J.). This includes some
interesting info on NFA firearm registration at the time - the number
of silencers has increased quite a bit, if you compare the 12,000 or
so registered in 1984, according to this, to the 50,000+ registered now,
according to the stats in Machine Gun News. This hearing was the
start, or public start, of Rep. Hughes' campaign to end the new
making of silencers and machine guns. It was not a surprise midnight
thing in 1986, that the making ban on mg's was tacked on, as NRA
sometimes likes to claim. In fact when HR 4332, the 1986 House FOPA bill was
reported out of the House Judiciary Committee, it didn't have a mg
making ban, but a silencer making ban. That was removed, and the mg
making ban added. As a bit of sarcasm, the model number of the Group
Industries made UZI machine guns, and the semi-autos, is HR4332, or
HR4332S. These hearings also go over the incomplete silencer
kit problem, and why silencer parts were added to the definition of
silencer, making it impossible to buy spare parts, like wipes, by
themselves, again due to the 1986 FOPA. If you go by the letter
Hughes wrote to ATF Chief Higgins, (reproduced in the file) Hughes
wanted to ban transfer, as well as making of machine guns and silencers.
Also included is the textimony of Mr. George Kass, owner of Forensic
Ammunition Service, which includes some neat sectional views of AP ammo,
which I will get up as graphics files soon.
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p312 of machinegun_hearings.txt - sectional(24k)
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p311 of machinegun_hearings.txt - sectional(20k)
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p310 of machinegun_hearings.txt - sectional(11k)
