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of the reform bill, U.S. Sen. Orrin Ha arms “among the most vital rights recognized in the Bill of im history of enforcement duses to the rights of private tizens. The abuses are legion, 1d can only be corrected by testified before the committee. Submitting written testimony in support of the reform effort were U.S. Reps. John Ashbrook (R-OH) and Mike Synar U.S. Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), -who has chaired ‘several Senate hearings-on the abases of guo owners, stresses that only through the enactment of S. 1030 can “‘we cc were left largely uniouch® “§. 1030’s changes are si good law enforcement. citizen who has n violated the law, reason to withhofd confiscated firearms afterAheir owner has been cleared’ of all charges. Crime canybt be dealt with by arrests law-abiding gun owners fr by unreasonable search dnd seizure directed at legitimAte gun collectors. It is ith by imposing strict penalfies on those who choose to mfsuse firearms for criminal S. 1030 does exactly fouse Judiciary Opposition hile Sen. McClure’s: bill whuld probably clear the U.S. Sénate with ease, its House counterpart, H.R. 3300 by p. Volkmer has been stifled the House Judiciary Com- ittee, which is chaired by gun control advocate U.S. - Rep. Phter Rodino (D-NJ); | At the Dec. 9 Senate’hear- ing, Rep. Volkmer said that despite his bill’s 164 cospon- sots he could not get a hearing for, H.R. 3300 ‘‘because those in cpntrol (of the House Judi- ciary Committee) simply be- lieve\that no one should ‘have guns\ ois 25. sao “The intent of ‘the (Gun Contrdl Act was to deny as many guns as possible to as many pfivate citizens as ppssi- ble:- Unk = losophy still exists today" .. Asked, by Senz:Grassley “i Senate passage of the McCjur: bill would spark activityin . House, Rep.'Volkmer-replied esti on your tunately, ‘that phi- \turned-around and prosecuted ; ncaa on Pon - who detailed gross injustices ich had suffered because of the law aad its enforcement by the BATF. mw Committee members, pi personnel and a near-capat ity’, audience listened spellbound ' for more than 20 minules | while Richard Boulin pf Monrovia, MD, testified he had become a 12-count c victed felon because of acti which the BATF told him wi completely legal. Mr. Boulin, a former Mai land police officer and decorated Vietnam veter: was a Federally licensed fir arms dealer who also collect commemorative firearms whic he maintained independent 0} his business stock. - The Gun Control Act re: quires that licensed dealer: record all firearm transactions in permanent records, but it allows private collectors and citizens to make personal trans- fers to individuals of their state of residence. s woe Mr. Boulin was convicted in 1976 of selling five guns from his personal collection without recording the transactions in his dealer records, a -practice which he said was sanctioned by BATF and which he backs 3 up with documentation. |; t “I asked BATF agents in Baltimore if I needed to record ; private ‘transactions*'in my | business records and two times I was aold ‘No.’ Then they} Bureau of «Alcohol, Tobacco = the Gun ‘Control and-Firearms, ‘said Sone of the mo: through: ‘legislatio _ ‘S.1030 *‘could wi e+ -sent=to *. deficiencies in the Gun%Con= Fourteen‘ years: 0! © trol Act which I became aware experience atest to that\Yact. of during previous hearings."? In the wrong handsiit_ heat ‘Sen. DeConcini said:that he’ .deadly:weapon against the was “dismayed at the abise of. curity of innocent Americans. gun owners” under ‘CA It is-incumbent, upon;us to U.S. Rep Harol 4(D-MOQ), who introduced the ‘ geform bill in the House, also “a * date’ cost-him over'$1 in’ : “Tegal ‘fees and in’ lost’ income, because emnloveyy ad in the ra =