LAMBRO: Gun control target practice

[308Mike]

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LAMBRO: Gun control target practice
Donald Lambro (Contact)
Thursday, September 18, 2008

COMMENTARY:

Gun control has suddenly emerged as the toxic issue of the 2008 presidential campaign, endangering Barack Obama's appeal among Democratic blue-collar and labor union households.

The freshman Illinois senator has a long record of favoring gun bans in Chicago and Washington, D.C., and a raft of other gun control bills that are anathema to gun owners, hunters and sportsmen alike.

He insists now he supports Second Amendment gun rights to keep and bear arms that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld when it struck down the D.C. gun ban in June. But he refused to join 77 of his colleagues who signed a friend of the court brief to end the weapons ban and remains sympathetic to a broad range of gun ban statutes.

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[Draven]

Yes, but he also insists that the second amendment doesn't prevent localities from being able to pass 'reasonable restrictions' to 'prevent crime'.

I.e., even though we have the right, Chicago-style gun control is just fine in every city. Us country bumpkins are allowed to keep our guns...