[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14095]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



         LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS WANT GUN SAFETY LEGISLATION

  (Mrs. TAUSCHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. TAUSCHER. Mr. Speaker, last week's failure by this Republican-
led Congress to deliver commonsense, practical gun safety legislation 
disappointed working families and law enforcement officials of both 
parties in my suburban district in San Francisco's East Bay.
  I would like to call attention to the reaction of a Republican law 
enforcement official in my district. Saying he had enough, Alameda 
County Sheriff Charles Plummer, a life long Republican, switched his 
party registration away from the Republican party. These are Sheriff 
Plummer's words:
  I was coming back from a meeting Friday and listening to a couple of 
Republicans on the radio talking about gun rights saying this 
legislation is not needed. I went ahead and changed my registration 
after being a Republican for 47 years.
  Sheriff Plummer said that gun safety, and I quote, ``has to be solved 
nationally . . . Even in the hunting country where I was raised, my 
friends think if someone needs an AK-47 to kill a deer they are not 
much of a sportsman.''
  Mr. Speaker, I could not have said it better myself.

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