How they voted on gun issues

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http://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/issues.gun.html

DEMOCRATS
Hillary Clinton
Voted for a 10-year extension of the assault weapons ban. Voted for requiring extensive background checks at gun shows. Supports licensing and registration of handguns, mandatory trigger locks for handguns, holding adults responsible for their children's use of guns, raising the youth handgun ban from age 18 to 21, limiting gun sales to one per month and allowing the Consumer Products Safety Commission regulate guns. Watch Clinton speak about guns
Mike Gravel
Supports requiring that potential gun owners be licensed and undergo training before they can own a firearm. Says he has had a gun in the house during his adult lifetime.

Barack Obama
Supports extending the assault weapons ban. Supports national law against carrying concealed weapons, with exceptions for retired police and military personnel. Supports limiting gun sales to one per month. Watch Obama speak about guns


REPUBLICANS
John McCain
Sponsored legislation requiring background checks at gun shows. Voted against a 10-year extension of the assault weapons ban. Opposed legislation requiring trigger locks for handguns. Opposed 1994 crime bill, which contained the assault weapons ban. Has a C+ rating from the NRA.
Watch McCain speak about guns
Ron Paul
Opposed 3-day gun show background check requirement in favor of a 24-hour check. Has a B rating from the NRA.

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possumboy wrote:

http://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/issues.gun.html

DEMOCRATS
Hillary Clinton
Voted for a 10-year extension of the assault weapons ban. Voted for requiring extensive background checks at gun shows. Supports licensing and registration of handguns, mandatory trigger locks for handguns, holding adults responsible for their children's use of guns, raising the youth handgun ban from age 18 to 21, limiting gun sales to one per month and allowing the Consumer Products Safety Commission regulate guns.

Watch Clinton speak about guns
Mike Gravel
Supports requiring that potential gun owners be licensed and undergo training before they can own a firearm. Says he has had a gun in the house during his adult lifetime.

Barack Obama
Supports extending the assault weapons ban. Supports national law against carrying concealed weapons, with exceptions for retired police and military personnel. Supports limiting gun sales to one per month.

Watch Obama speak about guns


REPUBLICANS
John McCain
Sponsored legislation requiring background checks at gun shows. Voted against a 10-year extension of the assault weapons ban. Opposed legislation requiring trigger locks for handguns. Opposed 1994 crime bill, which contained the assault weapons ban. Has a C+ rating from the NRA.

Watch McCain speak about guns
Ron Paul
Opposed 3-day gun show background check requirement in favor of a 24-hour check. Has a B rating from the NRA.

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Ron Paul is still my candidate.

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Not pushing any person - except for Jeff Frederick which represents me very well.

Just presenting information.

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None of the Hildebeest's or Barak Osama'sviews on gun control surprise me. Neither one has seen a gun control law that they didnt like.

IMO, Democrat=anti second ammendment.

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Its because they want to control the populus, just look back at some of the things Thomas Jefferson a few hundred years ago.
The stricter the goverment, the more you fear them, the more power they have over you.

"When the people fear the goverment, there is tyranny, when the goverment fears the people there is liberty" Thomas Jefferson

he said alot of good things americans, lest we forget who our true founding fathers are.

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CNN is referring to Ron Paul's vote on HR 2122. GOA advised a "NO" vote against HR 2122 because there was a lot more in it than just waiting periods. More bad than good:
http://www.gunowners.org/hs9917.htm

Ron Paul's "NO" vote on that bill was a good thing.

Ron Paul speeches on gun control and waiting periods (made within days of the gun show waiting period vote mentioned by CNN):
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec99/cr061699-e1292.htm
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec99/cr061599.htm

Ron Paul is the most consistent supporter of the 2nd amendment you'll ever find:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/69/
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/second-amendment/

Ron Paul opposes ALL federal regulation on the keeping and bearing of arms. Period. He's always voted that way, he always will. He's consistent and principled.