国会纪录：2006年3月27日（参议院）Page S2422-S2423关于引入梅伦德斯先生的账单和联合决议的陈述：2460。一项允许访问枪械跟踪系统数据库中某些信息的条例草案;向司法委员会委员会。Menendez先生。主席先生今天，我正在介绍新的立法，以解决追查犯罪的枪支信息的关键问题。本条例草案将废除关于从联邦政府向州和地方警察发布犯罪枪支踪迹数据的限制。毫无说说，我们了解问题的越多，而且它的来源越多，我们越熟练，我们将尝试创建一个有效的解决方案。谈论用于犯罪的枪支时尤其如此。一项研究表明，1.2％的枪支经销商销售57％的枪支追溯到刑事侦查。我荣幸地在新泽西州参议院荣誉，拥有全国最严格的枪支法律，但数百名（如果不是数千人），则违法的客户，例如年龄或那些没有的人有许可证，每个月都有这样的武器。 And the overwhelming majority of guns used to commit crimes in our State's cities were originally sold in compliance with the law in other States. In fact, a large majority of the guns used to commit crimes in Jersey City, Newark, and Camden traveled up the East Coast along I-95, which has been called the ``Iron Pipeline.'' This is truly a paradox that has not only frustrated law enforcement agents, but elected officials too. That is why the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives's Crime Gun Trace Reports (CGTRs) were created to provide information to three different audiences: Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies; federal Firearm Licensees (FFL); and the public, Congress, and State and local authorities. According to the reports released in July 2002, 85 percent of the traced guns used to commit crimes in Jersey City and Newark, and 77 percent of those used in Camden, were originally purchased outside of New Jersey. And more than 67 percent of crime guns recovered in Jersey City were originally purchased more than 250 miles away. This is exactly the type of information that assists law enforcement officials in placing local crime guns in a regional and national strategic enforcement context and would allow Federal, State, and local elected officials to develop national, regional, and local strategic responses to gun crime. Unfortunately, every year for the past few years Republicans in the House have slipped a provision into law to prohibit the release of this information to anyone other than ``. . . a Federal, State, or local law enforcement agency or a prosecutor solely in a criminal investigation or prosecution.'' This amendment effectively prohibits information from reaching Congress, and State and local authorities, and the public. This even limits how Federal, State and local law enforcement agencies can use these Crime Gun Trace Reports. It only allows law enforcement agencies to use these reports to investigate a crime that has already been committed. So, it only allows law enforcement officials to retroactively punish crime, rather than proactively preventing it from happening in the first place. That is why I am introducing legislation to make this gun crime data public again. It will not only help law enforcement prosecute gun crimes, but will also increase public awareness about where these guns originated. Until now, the restrictions have been imposed through the annual appropriations process, which means they end at the end of each fiscal year, or September 30. However, the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow on legislation that would write these restrictions into law permanently. Why is this information being concealed from the American people? It certainly contains no classified or sensitive national security material. The taxpayers have paid for information to be collected and the reports to be prepared, so why do they not deserve access to the information? And why is it illegal for Federal, State and local policymakers and law enforcement officials to use these reports in the way they were envisioned: to better understand and combat the scourge of gun violence that plagues our cities? Denying police access to this information about crime gun traces helps no one but the bad guys. Our families' safety should never take a backseat to the demands of radical interest groups seeking only to further their own narrow agenda. Congress needs to pass my legislation--instead we need to stand up for our families. I urge my colleagues to join me in this important effort. I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 2460 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. FIREARMS TRACE SYSTEM. (a) In General.--The Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109- 108; 119 Stat. 2295) is amended in title I, under the heading ``Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives'', by striking ``Provided further, That no funds appropriated under this or any other Act with respect to any fiscal year may be used to disclose part or all of the contents of the Firearms Trace System database'' and all that follows through ``section 921(a)(10) of such title):''. (b) Access to Information.--The Attorney General shall provide public access to the Crime Gun Trace Report (both nationally and for individual cities) from the Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative, which is generated using information in the Firearms Trace System database maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. ____________________