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Send waist size, caliber, model and barrel length of gun $2.95 P.P. when ordering. Double gun set available @ $13.95 PP. Wednesday nights, the crack of rilles rings out at the headquarters range of the Na· tional Rille Association. The hands that pull the. triggers belong to 65 youngsters, chil­ dren of members of Congress and their staffs, enrolled in a cours in "Marksmanship And Firearms Safety." The idea came from Con· 1127 - SPECIAL: SWORD·CANE, RIDING-CROP gressman Cecil King of California, a director of NRA. Beautifully made, hand-plaited, ~en­ 1120. BORDADO GUN uine leather riding crop, with 18 mch HOLSTER AND BELT dagger hidden inside. Practical col­ *** lector's item. $5.00 PP. • Amarillo, Tex.: Uncle John Graves, bailiff, Beautifully designed with white is 82 but he shot an escaping prisoner as he plastic lacing, on deep cordovan leather, edged in white leather might have done years ago when he was a lacing. Rich looking. Made for all Texas Ranger. 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Cramer, Committee on Committees, PLANS Committee on Judiciary, Supreme Court Decisions, Public Works 1st (St. Petersburg) Dist., Florida & My RESPONSE is a quotation from You and Your USA (DOD, Nov. 24, '54) on the subject of the Bill of Rights: KITS "The amendment resulted from the fear that Congress might disarm the State militias. The Constitution assures that this right to maintain State militias will remain with the States and that Congress cannot take it away. "The Supreme Court has permitted some regulations of this right to 'keep and bear arms.' For example, an Illinois law that prohibited groups of men to associate together as a military organization, or to drill and/or parade with arms in cities and towns, was upheld by the Court as not violating this amendment. The Court also upheld a provision of the National Firearms Act that made it illegal to transport an unregistered sawed·off shotgun in interstate commerce. The Court held that there was no evidence that posses· sion or use of a sawed·off shotgun had any reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well·regulated militia. "This right to 'keep and bear arms' does not apply to concealed weapons. Therefore, State laws that make it a crime to carry a concealed weapon without a permit do not violate this amendment. Gunberth "The Court has also held that this right applies only to citizens and may be denied Model No. to aliens." 5CF·11 Congressman Glenn Cunningham, Comm.: Interior & Insular; PO & Civ. Ser. 2nd Dist.. Nebraska My VIEW OF THIS amendment is that the people shall have the right to bear arms to defend their homes and that the people shall have the right to organize for the purpose Complete Working Plans of preserving law and peace through a collection of citizens authorized to act as police­ and Ready-Cut Kits men or militia, in the form of the National Guard. As time has passed since the framing ... for these Gunberth* Cabinets and of this Second Amendment, circumstances have changed and the carrying of arms has 20 other models are NOW AVAILABLE TO YOU! become less necessary for self·protection and for shooting game. Because it is a basic tenet of our Federal Government that fields not covered hy Federal law shall he left to the States and cities, the States and cities have drawn up the necessary laws and ordi· nances to control the carrying of arms, acting always in the public interest, yet mindful of the desires by many citizens to use firearms for other than defending their homes or preserving law and order. Just so long as State and local ordinances do not allow indiscriminate bearing of arms by persons whose purposes are contrary to law and order, I do not feel that Congress or any other branch of the Federal Govt. should encroach upon this field. Congressman Francis E. Dorn, Comm.: Merchant Marine & Fish 12th (Brooklyn) Dist., N.Y. 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