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Harold Volkmer: Just bust the doors down and go in and take the guns and if they find something illegal, they say ``Hey, we gotcha.''…

On the recordFebruary 8, 1995
Just bust the doors down and go in and take the guns and if they find something illegal, they say ``Hey, we gotcha.'' And if they do not find anything illegal, they say sorry. Sometimes they do not even say that, folks. Right now they have guns in their possession and some of them, by the way, when they have been forced to return them, forced by court orders to return them, they are not worth a darn anymore. They are damaged. They are rusted. They make sure that our gun owners do not have any guns. There is not any other Federal agency or local agency anywhere in this country that is about this business, but this agency is. Now, they may do some good things down the road, but they also do some terrible things. I do not believe that the civil rights, and I call them civil rights, under the Constitution of my gun owners, my hunters and my sportsmen, should be put in jeopardy by this bill giving those very same agents the right to go in and take them away.
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Harold Volkmer
Democratic · Missouri

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Addressing concerns about gun rights and federal agency actions regarding gun ownership.

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