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Harold Volkmer: “They are not federally illegal. What you are telling me is if a local city body decides that there are not going to be…”

On the recordMay 9, 1996
They are not federally illegal. What you are telling me is if a local city body decides that there are not going to be any guns, as the gentleman has in Illinois, there are not going to be any guns in this community, none whatsoever, and I have a gun in that community and it is in a public housing project, I have a Federal offense of 5 years, not just a violation of a local ordnance. That is the other objection I have to it. I do not believe that we should make every local ordnance a Federal offense if it involves guns in a public housing project. No, I do not believe that.
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Harold Volkmer
Democratic · Missouri
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of local gun ordinances and federal law.

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