[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 16, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H4346]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 STOP IMPORT OF HIGH CAPACITY GUN CLIPS

  (Ms. DeGETTE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks and include therein 
extraneous material.)
  Ms. DeGETTE. Mr. Speaker, in 1997 Officer Bruce Vanderjagt in Denver 
was gunned down by a gun using a semiautomatic weapon clip that held 
far more than 10 rounds of ammunition. People were shocked. We thought 
we banned these clips in 1995 when we passed the Crime Control Act, but 
unfortunately these clips, which have the only purpose as killing a 
human being, are widely available and legally available in gun shops 
throughout this country because of a loophole in that act. That 
loophole allows the unrestricted import of these high capacity 
magazines from countries like China, Russia and Eastern Europe.
  The Senate had the wisdom to pass legislation stopping this loophole 
and banning these clips that have the only purpose as killing humans. I 
urge in the next few days that the House do the same and enact this 
sensible piece of legislation which will stop these clips that only 
kill human beings.

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