Coin Slot Magazine - #010 - 1975 - July [International Arcade Museum]
LETTERS FROM READERS
The following is a letter received from a subscriber in Pennsylvania:
I'm glad to see your publication of Richard Bueschel's "It's Time the Laws
were Changed.1'"This article is a good beginning. Ihope~~you willlsee fit to
publish dates and details of any and all future gaming machine raids by the
unscrupulous "law enforcement authorities. " I believe that you would do
all of your readers a major service were you to provide information on
local raids. In the eastern Pennsylvania region, several major raids were
recently carried out by two undercover state troopers from Harrisburg.
Posing as interested collectors of one-armed bandits, these two fakes made
arrests from Wilkes-Barre to Philadelphia. Their names are Dennis H.
Shovlin and "David Zinnik". Shovlin usually appears as the sidekick to
Zinnik ? who appears in dirty clothes, usually smoking a cigar butt of
offensive odor. Shovlin is of medium height and weight, with initially-
greying black hair, appears to be about 36 years old. Zinnick appears to
be late 30!s.
You should alert your readers to permit no strangers to enter their houses
at any time. They should always respond to seemingly inocuous inquiries
about machines for sale with a statement to the effect that they do not sell
or buy gambling machines, nor do they want any. Readers should strictly
avoid buying or selling machines thru any public advertisement, including
those seen in The Antique Trader or any other national publication. These
publications are regularly scanned by law enforcement officers. For the
present time, and especially near election time, owners should discreetly
move machines to unseen locations, if possible, off their premises. Mere
ly moving machines to attics or cellars is not sufficient since most arres
ting officers have search warrants.
I regard my having to detail the above information as a major disaster for
this nation. Following the major corruption of Watergate, richard nixon
and his criminal crew, and assorted illegal wars, these proliferating
gambling machine raids by state police can only be seen as still another
example of government repression of the worse kind. These stormtrooper
tactics signal the further destruction of once-guaranteed personal freedoms.
On the eve of this country's 200th anniversary, they constitute an ultimate
obscenity.
QUESTIONS FROM READERS:
Dear Sir:
I have a question that many other collectors may have. If the interstate
shipment of slots is illegal, how does the state of Nevada's casinos ob
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