[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 115 (Wednesday, July 31, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H9382]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                THE NRA

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, if you are involved in a hit-
and-run accident today, the police can trace the paint on your car to 
the exact day it was painted, to where it was painted, to the gallon of 
paint used and where that car was sold and who owns it.
  Today if you use your phone in the commission of a crime, they can 
trace your calls back to that. But if you blow up the World Trade 
Center or you blow up the TWA airline or you blow up the park in 
Atlanta, the NRA will not let them trace the powder in those explosives 
back to the point of purchase and manufacture to expedite the 
investigation of who those people were that engaged in this terrorism 
against American cities and against American citizens. That is an 
outrage.
  A few months ago, 200 Members in this Congress voted to deny the 
alcohol, tobacco bureau the efforts to make that investigation, the FBI 
to make those investigations. We should now understand that these tools 
should be available to the FBI. They should be available to the 
alcohol, tobacco bureau. They should be available for the investigation 
to protect American lives.

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