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44 Foy, who weighed … Dr. James Lewis, testimony. PA-JH, 1051.
45 Leonard Allen … Leonard Allen, testimony. PA-JH, 946.
46 “No. I did …” J. Michael Dick, interview.
47 “The object of …” Ibid.
48 “I would say …” Raymond Rowley, interview.
49 “That guy is …” Leonard Supenski, interview.
Chapter Nine: Nicholas
1 “Now you …” Susan Allen, testimony. VA-NE, February 28, 1989, 51.
2 At first … Ibid., 52.
3 “I hit …” Ibid., 52.
4 “It was not …” Det. Donald Adams, interview.
5 “My God …” Susan Allen, testimony. VA-NE, 52.
6 Two things … Samuel M. Marino, testimony. VA-NE, 43.
7 Nicholas knew … NES, 61–62.
8 “I saw Mr. Marino …” Maurice H. Matteson, testimony. VA-NE, 120.
9 “I saw Nicholas …” Ibid., 122.
10 Nicholas had seen … NES, 62.
11 “There were chairs …” (Billy Cutter), testimony. VA-NE, 173.
12 “Billy …” Ibid.
13 “I know …” NES, 87.
14 “Billy Cutter …” Maurice H. Matteson, testimony. VA-NE, 123.
Chapter Ten: The Enforcers
1 In a 1981 congressional … G. R. Dickerson, testimony. Dismantling of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms hearing, Subcommittee on Crime, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, April 30, 1981, 26.
2 “There’s been …” Jack Killorin, interview.
3 “Illegal traffickers …” “A Study of Weapons Seized in Connection with Narcotics Investigations,” ATF Detroit Division, 1992, 13.
4 “If it were not …” Ibid., 13.
5 It must police … Anthony Fleming, interview.
6 This ratio … Robert Sherrill, The Saturday Night Special (New York: Charterhouse, 1973), 143.
7 In 1990 … Firearms Program License Application Data, ATF.
8 Roughly half … Anthony Fleming, interview.
9 My ATF printout … Printout of Maryland Federal Firearms Licensees. ATF, May 12, 1992.
10 A Los Angeles Times … Los Angeles Times, May 18, 1992, A1.
11 Any consumer who … Title 27, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 178: Commerce in Firearms and Ammunition, Section 178.128 b and c.
12 ATF traces its … “Facts,” ATF.
13 On January 16 … Robert T. Schoenberg, Mr. Capone (New York: William Morrow, 1992), 56–57.
14 What ATF neglects … Ibid., 58.
15 Eliot Ness urged … Ibid., 252.
16 Indeed, Schoenberg … Ibid., 297.
17 The real hero … Ibid., 298.
18 By the fall … Ibid., 139.
19 In 1969 … William J. Helmer, The Gun That Made the Twenties Roar (New York: Macmillan, 1969).
20 The Thompson … John Ellis, The Social History of the Machine Gun (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975), 149–51.
21 In a 1922 magazine ad … Auto-Ordnance Corp., advertisement, 1922; Ellis, Social History, 151.
22 An article … Ellis, Social History, 77.
23 In 1923 … Ibid., 79.
24 The first recorded … Schoenberg, Capone, 139.
25 That day … Helmer, Gun That Made, 84.
26 Capone first … Ibid., 84–85.
27 One of the dead … Ibid., 85; Schoenberg, Capone, 150.
28 The attack triggered … Helmer, Gun That Made, 87.
29 The Thompson submachine … Ibid., 88.
30 On February 14 … Ibid., 88.
31 As other massacres … Ibid., 100.
32 You’ve read … Ibid., 111.
33 One result … Ellis, Social History, 160.
34 On October 14 … Schoenberg, Capone, 322.
35 A more significant … “Facts,” BATF.; Sherrill, Saturday Night, 58; “BATF: Management Improvements Needed to Handle Increasing Responsibilities,” GAO, March 1991, 10.
36 In 1938, Congress … GAO, Ibid., 10.
37 It boosted … Ibid., 11; Sherrill, Saturday Night, 295.
38 “When our law-enforcement …” Rex Davis, former director, BATF, interview.
39 In 1968 the NRA’s … Osha Gray Davidson, Under Fire: The NRA & The Battle for Gun Control (New York: Henry Holt, 1993), 30.
40 Gradually, the hard-liners … Ibid., 31–41.
41 “To the NRA faithful …” Ibid., 31.
42 “That was a well-known …” Rex Davis, interview.
43 In March of 1978 … G. R. Dickerson, director, BATF, testimony. Firearms Enforcement Efforts of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms hearing, Subcommittee on Crime, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, July 2, 1980, 69.
44 “We didn’t feel …” Rex Davis, interview.
45 It cited … G. R. Dickerson, director, BATF, testimony, Firearms hearing, 70–71.
46 The NRA,