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SECRET - INTERNAL USE ONLY TDTG 2116492
WA CITE LANG 8557
SUPPORT (STUNTZ) FROM DEVANON
SUBJ: CASE 49486 - ERQUIAGA ARMS COMPANY
REF: (A) LA-404-64, DTD 27 OCT 64
(B) SUPPORT MEMO, SUBJ: ERQUIAGA 10 SUBMACHINE GUN,
DTD 8 DEC 64
(C) WA-67951
1. AS BEST WE SEE IT, SEIZURE REPORTED IN REF (C) IS LONG
STORY. ACTUALLY OUR DELAY IN REPLYING TO REF (B) WAS PURELY
DISCRETIONARY, SINCE THE WIND HAS BEEN BLOWING STRONG ON THE WEST
COAST WITH TREASURY (ACCOUNT THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION), AND WITH
CALIFORNIA (THEN) ATTORNEY GENERAL (WHOSE PRINCIPAL VOPRIS SEEMED
TO BE FASCISTS AND RIGHT-WINGERS) AGAINST GUN MANUFACTURERS,
DEALERS, ETC. AS A CONSEQUENCE, IT SEEMED THAT ERQUIAGA'S
PROBLEMS WERE INEVITABLE, THOUGH POSSIBLY NOT ALTOGETHER DESERVED.
2. SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, NEW CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL LYNCH
(MOSK, HIS PREDECESSOR, WENT TO STATE SUPREME COURT) HAD STATE