The California State Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday unanimously approved a bill to outlaw paramilitary organizations, after a report by State Attorney General Thomas Lynch had urged such action against the American Nazi Party and other similar groups in the state.
The Attorney General’s report, which described private army groups as “a threat to the peace and security of our state,” listed, an addition to the American Nazi Party, the Minutemen, the Black Muslims, the National States Right Party and the California Rangers.
The bill, which was sponsored by State Sen. J. Eugene McAteer, of San Francisco, defines private armies as organizations that are agencies of neither Federal nor state government, but that “engage in instruction or training in guerilla warfare.”
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