The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 15

Boston Sunday Glob March 3, 1974 13 Favorable action expected on gim hill 7th suspect arraigned ill $lm Brink's holdup By Peter Lucaj Globe Staff A bill banning the cheap handgun known as the "Saturday Night Special-is expected to be acted on favorably this week by the Massachusetts legislative Committee on Public Safety. Rep. Ralph E. Sirianni Jr. (D-Winthrop), House chairman of the committee, said he will recommend that committee members report out hV bill prohibiting all handguns with barrels 3 inches long or less.

He said he will also propose that the committee approve a companion bill calling for a mandatory educational program for all persons seeking to own a firearm prior to the issuance of a firearm identification card or a firearm permit. This bill was filed bill would ban all hand-funs with barrels of 5 inches and under, and a bill filed by Sen. Jack Backman (D-Brookline) and Buckley would ban all guns with barrels of 10 inches and under. There would be exceptions for law enforcement officers and others. Sirianni, who has a "handgun and is licensed to have it, said his bill would also ban handguns of .32 caliber and under, and guns made of certain alloys.

Sirianni said there would be no need for his bill if current gun laws "were being enforced by the police and implemented by the courts of this Commonwealth and of this country." Sargent said he does not believe the Sirianni bill "goes far enough. I don't prepared to seek signatures banning all handguns. He said he eventually expected to have up to C0O citizens involved in the project Under the Buckley petition, 56,000 signatures would have to be gathered and filed with Secretary of State John F. X. Davo-ren.

If successful the matter would' then come before the Legislature in 1975. If the Legislature failed to enact the proposal Buckley would have to gather another 10,000 signatures to place it on the 1976 ballot for voter ratification. "This calls for a complete ban on the sale, possession and ownership of handguns, except for law enforcement officials and 'the military," Buckley said. "You've got to go all the way or you don't have anything," he said. by Rep.

Robert Owens (D-Framingham). However, Middlesex County Sheriff John J. Buckley, a strong advocate of strict gun control, said he will form a "Ban the Handgun" organization to collect signatures so that the issue will get on the ballot Buckley's petition will call for a complete ban on all handguns, except for law enforcement officials and the military. "This is strong stuff," Buckley "It has to be strong stuff because nothing else will work." Although the Sirianni" 3-inch bill would ban the so-called "Saturday Night Specials, it would not further regulate the thousands of persons who have handguns with barrels longer than three inches. Gov.

Francis W. Sargent's want to back off from the five inch bill," he said. "I just think we ought to get rid of these goddamn things," Sargent said. Under the mandatory education bill, applicants for a firearm permit would have to pass a written and practical examination in the safe handling of firearms, rifles and shotguns. The examination would be administered by the Department of Public Safety.

All current holders of permits to have firearms would also be required to take the examination under the bill. Sirianni said the legislation is still under study but that he favored all handgun owners taking the examination. Sheriff Buckley said he already has 510 volunteers FhHip Joseph Cresta, the last of seven men suspected of involvement in the 1968 $1 million Brink's armored truck robbery in Boston, was arraigned yesterday In Chicago. Bond was set at $625,000. Cresta was arrested by FBI agents Friday at a Chicago toy shop where he had worked as manager under the name of Joseph Paul Zito.

Cresta, described on "wanted" notices as armed and dangerous, did not resist arrest, the FBI said. U.S. Magistrate James T. Balog set March 7 for a hearing on moves to extradite Cresta to Boston. Deputy Supt "John F.

Doyle of the Boston police intelligence division said Cresta "fled Boston in June 1969, and has been missing ever since." He has been the object of a five-year search by the city's organized crime unit, Doyle said. About $965,000 of the stolen money is still missing, and authorities plan to question Cresta about it. FBI agent Richard G. Held in Chicago said Cresta married last summer and lived with his wife, Mary Ann, af Kilpatrick in Skokie, 111., about 35 miles from Chicago. Police said he had grown long hair and a moustache.

Cresta is charged with two Federal crimes the June 1966 robbery of PHILIP CRESTA found in toy shop 000 from an armored van outside a Massachusetts hospital, and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution after the Brink's robbery. Five other men accused in the Brink's holdup have been sentenced to Walpole state prison. One other man, Cresta's brother, William, was acquitted. REM A) 24" WIDE 12.0 CU. FT.

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