EXHIBIT No. 131

Photograph: Sample of Rifles and Shotguns confiscated during the first two days of the riot of July 23-30 in Detroit, Michigan. There was a total of 280 rifles and shotguns confiscated during the riot period. This total included 120 rifles and 160 shotguns. (Identification of weapons made by the Detroit Police Department.)

1. Savage, 16 gauge shotgun, Model 220 (2nd Precinct).

2. 30-30 Marlin, Model 336 RL (2nd Precinct).

3. M-1 Carbine, 30 caliber (5th Precinct).

EXHIBIT No. 132

Photograph: Sample of Rifles and Shotguns confiscated during the first two days of the riot of July 23-30 in Detroit, Michigan. There was a total of 280 rifles and shotguns confiscated during the riot period. This total included 120 rifles and 160 shotguns. (Identification of weapons made by the Detroit Police Department.)

1. Mossberg, 20 gauge (16th Precinct).

2. 1-M-130 caliber carbine, full clip (2nd Precinct).

3. Remington, 1-12 gauge shotgun, Model 11, automatic (5th Precinct).

EXHIBIT No. 133

Photograph: 1935 A semi-automatic, Model S.A.C.M. Manufactured in France for military use, confiscated by the Detroit, Michigan, Police Department in a homicide case during the riots. The Detroit police described this weapon as a "particularly lethal" handgun using "jacketed" 7.65 ammunition. The weapon is a recent import to the Detroit area. More than a hundred were sold with ammunition by one Detroit-area dealer for less than $40.00 prior to the riots

STATEMENT OF SENATOR THOMAS J. DODD ON FIREARMS USED IN THE DETROIT RIGT OF JULY 1967, INCLUDING A CHART ENTITLED "MAKE, SERIAL NUMBER, AND REIS TRATION OF 267 HANDGUNS SEIZED IN THE DETROIT RIOT OF JULY 23-30, 197 One subject that has received unprecedented attention in the Senate during the last six years is the wide-open sale and misuse of firearms of all descriptions to virtually anyone who has a few dollars to spend.

For my own part, I have called on Congress on a score of occasions to come to grips with the interstate traffic in firearms which has grown from a nation scandal into a national debacle. It is certainly one of the most severe problem of our time, and it is worsening daily.

Congress can no longer deny an effective interstate gun control law to decent law abiding citizens who each year in increasing numbers are preyed up by criminals and the mentally unstable, not to mention the additional thousands cut down in "accidents" because weapons are in the hands of the unskilled. = trained or frivolous.

The situation has now gone beyond even that indefensible limit. On a doze different occasions this year during riots and other civil disturbances in our cities we have heard subversives and extremists appeal to their followers to "7themselves, to join rifle clubs, to stockpile ammunition and explosives.

And the extremists and subversives did buy guns and ammunition and expi sives and used them in riots across the land. In most cases it was no more effor for them to arm themselves than it was to buy a tennis racket or a baseball glute Nor was it any more expensive.

The result was that hundreds of innocent persons were shot in the riots, do of others died in accidents and fires, and hundreds of millions of dollars www lot in property damage as a direct result of firefighters and police being b

off by hidden snipers who, once their crimes were committed, simply abandoned their cheap rifles and pistols and disappeared to return another day with yet another firearm.

What more incentive, what last scintilla of evidence does Congress need to do what it should have done a long time ago.

Congress must ignore the pleas of a powerful lobby whose enormous success in preventing the passage of stronger Federal firearms laws has resulted in so much tragedy and listen to the pleas of the decent citizens of America who want safety and security for their families.

The Senate Juvenile Delinquency Subcommittee has recently completed 10 days of hearings on proposals to control the runaway interstate shipment and sale of firearms advanced by members of the Senate and the President of the United States.

When we went into these hearings, many members of the committee, including myself, felt that there was nothing new that we could learn from the witnesses. We had already heard from scores of persons in past years on this subject. This notion was soon shattered by some of the most devastating holocausts to strike some of the great cities of this Nation in modern times. Our hearings began on July 10, 1967 and on July 12th, the City of Newark erupted into violent warfare. And from this explosion there appeared, as if uncorked by some mischievious genie, a product of 20th Century America, the civilian sniper. This was only a small hint of what was to come later, in the City of Detroit, which was to further perfect the practice of self-immolation.

I would like to go back for a moment to July 18, 1967 at 3:30 p.m. in Room 5110 of the New Senate Office Building to a witness named William Cahalan who is the Prosecuting Attorney of Wayne County, Michigan.

Wayne County includes the City of Detroit.

The first paragraph of his statement was tragically prophetic and I would like to repeat it today.

Mr. Cahalan told the committee: "Effective law enforcement in Michigan, particularly in the County of Wayne, has been seriously hampered by the unlawful possession and illegal use of firearms brought into the State of Michigan by residents who are able to purchase these firearms with scarcely any restrictions in the State of Ohio, principally in the City of Toledo and its environs which is only a one-hour drive on the Expressway from Detroit."

Exactly 5 days after this statement at 3:30 a.m. in the City that Mr. Cahalan is sworn to protect, his words took on a new meaning. A simple police arrest ignited 6 days of killing, burning and looting that left huge chunks of the city looking like the worst of the World War II battle grounds.

And. in Detroit, the demon that was released in Newark grew to maturity an we reached what the Police Chiefs of America described to the committee as "the age of the Sniper."

I do not exaggerate the awesome nature of the civilian sniper. There is a great fear today in Detroit because of the unbelievable power that such a sniper can exert over a city of 3.5 million people. Law enforcement officers are concerned over the fact that a few dozen strategically placed snipers can immobilize an entire city and reduce the population to helplessness.

Routine life comes to a standstill.

Streets are empty.

Services necessary for health and welfare come to a grinding halt.

There are now teams of professional groups representing diverse interests studying the aftermath of the riot to determine who the snipers were, why they did what they did and perhaps what we can do about them.

And, this is what I address myself to today. It will take a long time to change the warped personalities of human beings who hide on a roof top with a gun and the desire to destroy fellow human beings.

There is not much we can do in a hurry to change these people. However, there is something we can do now, and that is to make it harder for these killers to obtain the weapons with which they carry out their bizarre tendencies.

I would like once again to refer to Mr. Cahalan's statement where he made an observation on rifles and shotguns and their misuse in his county. In speaking of the exemption of these weapons from Michigan State law, he said: "Since this latter group of firearms are more widely used for sporting purposes, and since their size makes them less practical for a crime than a handgun, the exemption seems appropriate. Additional legislation might be required in the State of Michigan if pistols become scarce and rifles and shotguns begin to be used more frequently in the commission of crime."

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We intend to meet with Mr. Cahalan soon to discuss his current thoughts inasmuch as five days after his statement, rifles and shotguns were widely used. not for sporting purposes, but for the partial destruction of a great city from the roof tops and apartment buildings in the heart of that giant metropolis.

I wonder what the attitude is of the gun lobby that for years created a situation that allowed an admittedly tragic riot to be turned into a blinding holocaust.

I am sure that these self-appointed guardians of the 2nd Amendment will do as they have done in the past. They will resort to unfounded claims that he weapons of the snipers were stolen, and, that any more controls over deady weapons would serve no useful purpose.

In order to find out what the facts were, we sent staff members of the Ilinquency Subcommittee to Detroit for 3 weeks beginning in the middle of the riot. to collect, sift and analyze as much information as possible about the guns used in this disaster.

I want to say here that the first person to offer his full cooperation and that of his staff was Mr. William Cahalan, the fine gentleman who gave the Congress a clue as to what might happen on July the 18th. His people worked closely with ours, as did the good officers of the Detroit Police Department and its Scientife Bureau which investgiated all of the handguns seized from the rioters.

There was, of course, a great deal of confusion in the days during and inmediately following the riot. The Detroit police force of 4,500 men processed 7,231 arrestees (including 703 juveniles) of whom 3,297 were charged with felonies.

There were 167 police officers injured and one shot to death. Eleven were actually shot by snipers and 16 others were injured as a result of snipers firing at police vehicles.

In addition, the police department had to concern itself with many of the 657 persons who were injured.

552 fires put an additional burden on police who were called upon to protect firemen who, because of the sniping, had what was described as the "most hazardous job of all."

Despite this overwhelming task, officials of the police and district attorney's office cooperated to the fullest extent and supplied the Committee wtih the cr histories of 450 persons arrested during the riot who had violated various firearms laws of the City of Detroit or the Governor's curfew.

We have analyzed these cases and the facts speak for themselves.
Certain conclusions are inescapable.

Let me first focus on the 267 handguns many of which were taken from know killers, robbers, thieves and looters. And, I do not make this statement lightly, fer the names of these persons were checked with the Metropolitan Police Depart ment of Detroit and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and this is exacti what over half of the arrested rioters and looters were. Persons who, even in the absence of any rational gun controls, should never have had these weapons in their possession.

The laws of the State of Michigan require a permit to purchase a handgun and that they be registered, yet, two hundred and seven of the guns found in the possession of these people were not registered. Of the sixty guns that were regis tered, 38 were taken from individuals who had the weapon in their possesse without the knowledge or consent of the owners. A review of the arrest records reveals that dozens of these people, as Prosecutor Cahalan testified, purchased these guns in Toledo, sometimes months or only days prior to the riot. They were. in the main, the "Saturday Night Specials," the cheap, foreign-made or militar surplus handguns that are wreaking such havoc on law enforcement officers in this country.

The names of these weapons crop up with dulling repetition.

The owner of one of the 147 foreign made handguns seized from rioters stated "I bought the gun in Toledo, Ohio, 6 months ago."

The familiar Walther P-38 was taken from a young lady who said she par chased it 5 days before her arrest in Toledo, Ohio, and did not register it.

Toledo, of course, is just the major symptom in the Detroit area of the fare that is made of the Michigan law because that state cannot prevent its residerTM* from buying weapons in another state.

For example, the handgun most despised by all of our big city police denum ments, and another gun well known to the Subcommittee, the 22 calibre "Rosa" was taken from an arrested person who had purchased the pistol in Chicag months before the riot.