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Perry Supports Background Check
State Gun Control Bill To Supercede Brady Act
By BUDDY ROBERTS
Associate News Editor
Hotly-debated legislation to
impose instant background
checks on handgun purchases
may not be completely effec
tive, but it’s better than the
Brad¥ Act, according to Rep.
Tim Perry.
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Perry voted for the House
version of an original Senate
bill calling for the background
checks. A conference commit
tee is preparing a compromise
bill, which will likely be
presented to both chambers
during the last week of the
legislative session.
The bill, approved by the
House, 148-24, was supported
by the National Rifle Kssocia
tion, Chattooga County gun
dealers, Perry, and oti:r
legislators who ‘‘normally vote
against gun control measures.”
“We already have gun con
trol. It is calledy the Brady Act,
and it is ioing into effect on
Feb. 28. The Brady Act would
require either an instant
background check or a fiveig;\i
waiting period, and I gust thi
that the only thi:g that a five
day waiting period would do is
hurt the legitimate gun shops
and businesses who are the on
ly ones who would be required
to wait five days before they
could make a sale.”
BRADY ACT
The Brady Act was approv
ed by Congress last fall, aimed
at prohibiting convicted felons
ans the mentally incompetent
from obtaining guns. It re
quires unlicensed gun buyers
to wait five days before buying
a handgun.
If 5:3 state gun control
measure is approved by the
General Assembly, it will
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Be Your Best
Optimists learn about Best Quest Friday.
From left are Optimist Eddy Ellenburg,
visitor Will Selman, Marietta, and
speaker John Turner, who discussed Best
Quest at Chattooga Hlifh School. Will is
the nephew of Barry Hurley club presi
Acquitted Molester Hit
With More Sex Charges
from front page
Investigators said that
Howard Hogue is Dewey
Hogue’s brother.
“I myself already have
eight to 10 molestation cases to
present to the August grand
{::lry," Inv. Hill said. “I don’t
ow what the problem is. I
don’t know whether there is
more of it (molestation) or if
more of it is coming out, or por
nography, or what it is.”
THREE CASES
Hill had already made three
child molestation cases this
year prior to this past weekend.
supercede the federal law.
The House version of the
bill reguires instant
background checks for han
dgun purchases, sets a $5 pro
cessing fee, and eliminates all
other gun-purchase waiting
periods.
The original Senate plan
would require background
checks for all firearm pur
chases, set a $lO background
check fee, and allow for local
gun-at]n'chase waiting periods.
“Whatever the conference
committee comes up with, I'm
not sure it will do a whole lot
of good,” Perry said. ‘lt won't
catch the felons, who are going
to get a gun anyway if they
want one.”
Perry also supports a bill in
the legislature to allow
teachers to hold brief periods of
“T:iet reflection” in public
schools, providing time daily
for students to pray if they
desire.
The bill has gained support
from Christian coalitions, con
servative groups, and those
who see the plan as a sz' to
curb school violence. Civil
rights groups have indicated
dent, and recently spent the day with
Hurley at First National Bank as part of
the Dickerson Middle School career day.
Will is the grandson of Bill and Pat
Selman, Pennville. (Staff Photo).
David H. Ragan, 33, Lyer
ly, had been arrested on child
molestation and enticing a
child for indecent pu:foses on
Feb. 3. Ragan had also been
previously tried on child
molestation charges in Chat
tofifa Count{ and acquitted,
Hill told The Summerville
News.
Two other men, Kenneth
Lee Trammell, 26, Summerville
Rte. 2, and Brian Tofte, 30, 310
Allen St., Summerville, both
had been arrested in separate
molestation charges in late
January and early February.
Trammell was arrested on
charges of sexuallly assaulting
a 2Yz-year-old girl just before
Christmas last year.
Tofte was charged with
child molestation, cruet‘liy to
children and showing lewd and
indecent material to minors in
connection with an August,
Girls Charged In Obscene Calls
Two young girls have been
charged with makinfi harass
ing and obscene telephone calls
to a boy.
Chief Inv. P. R. Hill of the
Chatto?a County Sheriff’s Of
fice said the two were 10 and
12. The 12-year-old was charg
ed with being a party to the
crime while the 10-year-old was
charged with making the calls.
Safety Is Topic Of
Junior Deputy Program
The local Junior Deputfl
program continues this mont
with a Chattooga Emergency
Medical Service sponsored talk
on safety. It is sponsored by
the Chattooga County Sheriff’s
Office.
- The discussion will be led
by the employees of the Am
bulance Service.
The Summerville News, Thursday, February 17, 1994
that if the plan is passed, it
could leave many schools open
to lawsuits.
“FAIR WAY”
“That bill is not on the
calendar this week, but I think
it'll pass the House when it
comes up,” Perry said. I'm for
it. I think this is the fairest
way to do it.
“When I was in school, we
prayed. Schools have been go
ing downhill ever since the
Sugreme Court said we
couldn’t do that any more.”
The representative express
ed disdain for groups such as
the Georgia American Civil
Liberties Union who may op
pose the plan with legal action.
I say bring it on. I'm tired
of putting up with these peo
ple. We've bowed to them for
too long. Let’s hitch up our
wagons, and go for it.”
Perry joined 95 other House
members in rejecting com
pliance with a fe(ieral mandate
allowing people to register to
vote when they get their
driver’s licenses. The ‘“Motor
Voter” Act may cost the state
more than $lO million, he
added.
1993 incident. The case involv
ed a 10-year-old girl and an
11-year-old girl, Hill said.
ACQUITTED
In addition, Terry W. Gat
ty, 35, Summerville Rte. 2, who
had been acquitted on child
molestation charges dur'% the
August, 1993 term of Chat
tooga County Superior Court,
was indicted on additional sex
abuse charfies this l*l)ast Thurs
day. He had been c! arfed with
molesting a 16-year-old boy.
eell-{le wz;ls indict,fed so(tihis past
week on charges of sodomy, ag
gravated sodomy, and ch?fd
molestation against a 13-year
old girl and a 16-year-old girl.
Meanwhile, the sheriff’s of
fice and Summerville Police
Department. were working on
another alleged molestation
case this week (see related
story).
The charges were filed
Tuesday.
Hill said the obscenities
were recorded on a telephone
answering machine at the
boy’s house. A false name was
left on the recorder, he said,
but further investigation turn
ed lflthe identli.te:{ of the girls.
ey were released to the
custody of their parents.
The schedule is: 1:30 p.m.
Monday at Menlo; 9:10 a.m. at
Summerville Middle School,
and 2 p.m. at Pennville,
Wednw(fiy; and 9:10 a.m. at
the Middle School, and 2 p.m.
at Il;));;rly Feb. 24. X ;
uty Dawg, Doughert
County gheriff’s office, mfi
highlight the March program.
UNFUNDED MANDATE
“I voted against it because
this is clearly an unfunded
mandate that Congress has
sent down to the taxpayers of
this state, and regardless, I
don’t believe it is needed.
Ty i’ust don’t think we have
a problem in this state register
ing our citizens to vote. If Con
gress thouiht this was such a
problem, why didn’t they want
to Pay for it? Why spend sl3
million of the taxpayers’
money for a freedom we
alread))" have?”
The measure was tabled,
and will likely be brought up
again before the session ends.
PER DIEM PAY
Perry said he is not sure
how he will vote on a bill to in
crease per diem pay for
legislators. The measure may
be submitted to the House this
week for a vote.
“I still don’t know if I'll
support it, but it proposes to
raise our per diem pay to $lO7
a day. Everybody, the
Democrats and the
Republicans, agree that we
need it.”
Legislators who reside more
than 50 miles away from Atlan
ta receive $59 for expenses dur
ing the 40-day legislative ses
sion. They are reimbursed 21
cents per mile for one round
trip home each week. The rate
has not changed since 1984,
when the per diem was increas
ed from $44 to 59.
Perry noted that the federal
per diem rate for Atlanta is
sll9.
“Most of the hotels here of
fer discounts to legislators, but
my hotel bill is S6O a day. Our
per diem gay is to offset our ex
mses, ut the rate hasn’t
n changed in a long time.”
If the glan is approved, it
will “‘not be a raise in pay,’’
Perry said, and will go into ef
fect next January for
legislators elected this
November.
He added that he is con
cerned with the timing of the
issue, coming during an elec
tion year. ‘“This is not a good
time to bring the matter up,
especially if we can’t come to
an agreement. I hope it doesn’t
turn into a campaign issue.”
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