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91 The ATF’s Urgent trace … 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, 34.
92 But Stokes eventually … Thomas W. Stokes, interview.
93 “We’re always looking for …” Raymond Rowley, interview.
94 “We don’t make …” David Troy, interview.
Chapter Eleven: Nicholas
1 Forensic investigators … Det. Donald Adams, interview.
2 Cutter was splayed … (Billy Cutter), testimony. VA-NE, February 28, 1989, 94.
3 “It looked …” Ibid., 87.
4 “I was probably …” Maurice H. Matteson, testimony. VA-NE, February 28, 1989, 123.
5 “I don’t have the gun …” Ibid., 124.
6 “What in the world …” Ibid., 131.
7 Rev. George Sweet … Rev. George Sweet, interview; George Sweet, testimony. WF-SE, January 14, 1992.
8 “He looked at me …” Ibid.
9 “I was like wondering …” Lora Sweet, testimony. WF-SE, January 14, 1992, 7.
Chapter Twelve: The Culture
1 He did not carry … Det. Donald Adams, interview; Det. Donald Adams, testimony. WF-SE, January 14, 1992.
2 “A gun enthusiast …” Det. Donald Adams, interview.
3 He carried hundreds … Ibid.; Det. Donald Adams, testimony. WF-SE, January 14, 1992.
4 “He could hold …” Det. Donald Adams, interview.
5 He filed a groove … Ibid.
6 The fact his mother … Ibid.
7 Hundreds “were …” Robert Sherrill, The Saturday Night Special (New York: Charterhouse, 1973), 165.
8 “I didn’t sell …” James S. Dick, deposition. WF-SE, July 16, 1990, 43.
9 “I’m kind of flattered …” New York Times, March 10, 1992, 1.
10 Intratec was so … Los Angeles Times, July 7, 1993, 3.
11 “Everything was by …” Los Angeles Times, July 3, 1993, 1.
12 Only one of … Osha Gray Davidson, Under Fire, 171–72.
13 “The object of …” John Minnery, Kill Without Joy: The Complete How to Kill Book (Boulder, Colo.: Paladin Press, 1992), preface.
14 “I prefer to make …” Peder Lund, interview.
15 Once a week … Michael Hoy, interview.
16 Joseph Grubisic, commander … Joseph Grubisic, interview.
17 A few years ago … Confidential interview, BATF.
18 Some’published recipes … Sgt. LeRoy Pereira, U.C. Berkeley Bomb Squad, interview; Lt. Walter Boser, commander, New York Police Bomb Squad, interview; Peder Lund, interview.
19 (“It’s kind of like …” Charles Rose, interview.
20 “They’re wrong …” Peder Lund, interview.
21 Most of his customers … Billy Blann, interview.
22 In August 1992 … Jack Killorin, spokesman, BATF, interview; Charles T. Ziegler, police chief, Athens, Tennessee, interview; Ptl. Don Long, Athens police, interview.
23 In San Juan Capistrano … Sgt. Charles Stumph, Orange County Sheriff’s Bomb Squad, interview.
24 In 1983 he set … Park Elliott Dietz, interview.
25 His work brought … Park Elliott Dietz, interview; Dietz, “Dangerous Information: Product Tampering and Poisoning Advice in Revenge and Murder Manuals,” Journal of Forensic Sciences 33:5 (September 1988): 1215.
26 In an article … Dietz, “Dangerous Information,” 1208–9.
27 In 1973, Dr. Dietz’s … Ibid., 1212–13.
28 “The general rule …” Bruce Ennis, interview.
29 “These are difficult …” Floyd Abrams, interview.
30 “You can’t say …” Joseph Grubisic, interview.
31 No problem would exist … Sgt. Charles Stumph, interview.
32 That Paladin can … Jack Thompson, interview.
33 In July 1989 … Washington Post, August 15, 1989, a10.
34 Shotgun News also … Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 12, 1993, G3.
35 “There’s no difference …” David Uhrig, interview.
36 Private buyers … Wall Street Journal, October 23, 1992, 1.
37 Once notorious … New York Times, March 30, 1992, D8.
38 It now includes … See Shotgun News, July 1, 1992, 3.
39 Nonetheless, my April … Shotgun News, April 1, 1993, 5, 25.
40 During a reporting journey … Wall Street Journal, March 12, 1993, 1.
41 “It’s called …” Jim Moore, interview.
42 “My friend …” John G. Mitchell, “ ‘God Guns & Guts Made America Free,’ ” American Heritage (February/March 1978): 9.
43 At times … Ibid., 8.
44 The NRA was founded … Certificate