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MR. KELLEY: é et a aa I S| EO 30 OT FO eels eens wer - — we ee oe ae . in the country at a time whon we see other crime: statistics leveling off. And I believe it can be attributed to the ready avajlmbility of handguns, and I do not believe thet the solution to the gun problem is to be found in different laws in each of the 50 states. Tf strongly believe that we necd Federal gun enforcement because it's next to impossible to have effective enforcement with aifferent laws applying in different states. So my view and I think and I hope inexeasingly the view of people of state and lecal law enforce- ment is that the safety of police officers as well as the safety of ovr citizens dictates that ve do what evory other developed country of the world has done, and that is to impose reasonably strict controls on handguns. ‘ i subscrihe to gun_control and have repeatedly felt that our most pressing probien today is to get rid of the Saturday Night Special so-called because it is a throw-away gun which is many times throvn-away after fen FR 2 AA 2hC Fo LO Py _ ~ nat 7 LI » , a GOoLts is not the type of weapon which the holder feels he should retain, and it has brought about ‘a substantial \ number of killings of our officers. And my feeling is let's first attack this duc to the opposition of handguns by many, but the” grant, great lobby of soma - 17 -