Harold Volkmer: “I just want to alert the Members that I will be having an amendment to this bill that would exempt the Bureau of…”

“I just want to alert the Members that I will be having an amendment to this bill that would exempt the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agencies from the provisions of this bill. BATF has been the biggest rogue, Rambo outfit that has taken guns away from innocent people, and this will permit them to break into houses, break into business houses, without a warrant. It is bad enough now with a warrant. The gentleman from Georgia talked a minute ago about the fourth amendment. Well, he had better start looking at the second amendment, because this bill, as it is written right now, lets BATF, if somebody tells somebody, ``Hey, that guy has got an illegal gun down there in his house,'' they can go in and bust the door down and get it. If it is not there, they just say, ``Tough luck, buddy,'' just like they have said to many people in this country. I have fought BATF since the 1970's since I first came here. What do you think happened at Waco? Who was that? What happened in Idaho? Who was that?”