[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 117 (Thursday, August 18, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 18, 1994]
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 ADVICE TO CHARLTON HESTON: THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST 
                              THY NEIGHBOR

  (Mr. SCHUMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, first Charlton Heston thought he was Ben-
Hur.
  Then he thought he was Moses.
  Now he thinks he is an expert on the crime bill.
  The truth is, Charlton Heston is simply another movie actor, playing 
another role, reading someone else's words.
  And the script Charlton Heston is reading, Mr. Speaker, was written 
and paid for the National Rifle Association.
  If anyone in this House thinks Charlton Heston has actually read--
much less mastered--this crime bill, there is a bridge up in Brooklyn I 
would like to sell them. The truth is, Charlton Heston does not know a 
darned thing about this crime bill. He is simply lobbying for assault 
weapons.
  It is shameful--shameful--for a man who played the role of Moses, the 
original lawgiver, to now be selling lies for the NRA in the name of 
killing machines.
  I say to Charlton Heston, remember the Commandment Moses gave us: 
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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