" He said expanding the checks wasn't gun control, "just common sense.
But why shouldn't gun owners or those who simply believe in the Second Amendment have the right to support candidates and incumbents who share their views?
But promises by all the candidates to protect the fundamental right to gun ownership won't impress the gun lobby.
Chris Holt, a former major-leaguer who now coaches prospects at Pro Bound USA, a Florida baseball academy, says young pitchers who can't hit 90 on the radar gun don't get a serious look.
But the hospital didn't report the gun incident to the police in a timely fashion.
The T-shirt gun had a new CO2 canister that blasted away with a healthy thump.
At the end of the day I can supply the bullets but I don't fire the gun.
The NRA argues that such bans won't help stop gun violence and that they infringe on Second Amendment rights.
This isn't about "gun control, " it's about something closer to simple decency.
Would Zimmerman have been so bold if he wasn't carrying a gun?
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"You can't do a background check if a guy doesn't have a gun to buy, " said Mike Fotia, manager at Duke's Sport Shop in New Castle, Pa.
Mr. MILLER: To my knowledge, Jack Abramoff didn't hold a gun to anybody's head and say take my gift, take my meals and come to my restaurant.
No one possibly could believe that if you need a check on the background, the criminal or mental health history of somebody who can go into a gun store and buy a gun, that you shouldn't have that on any gun purchase.
He added there wouldn't be any private gun sales on fairgrounds for the indefinite future.
He said the law won't infringe on legal gun owners' rights and will save lives by registering assault weapons.
This doesn't necessarily mean that gun legislation is moribund.
Gun makers and lobbyists weren't invited to participate in the conference, but Blumenthal said gun rights advocates will have opportunities in hearings and other forums to express their points of view.
And statewide, most New York residents either support the gun laws or think they didn't go far enough, while 30% believe the gun laws went too far, according to the Journal poll.
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Supporters of the ban (not including anti-gun groups who thought it didn't go far enough in the first place) claimed that gun crime would skyrocket when the ban was lifted.
Street violence has gone up in recent years in Switzerland but there hasn't been an increase in gun-related incidents.
Herkimer Mayor Mark Ainsworth said Mr. Cuomo, with whom he met privately on Wednesday, didn't raise the issue of gun control.
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He also didn't mention increased penalties for gun crime, an attendee said.
He said the events hadn't altered his perspective on gun control.
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Out-of-state permits to carry a gun aren't recognized in the city.
Mr. BERNTSEN: Exactly, because there were so few of us and so many of the enemy that, you don't want to be in gun fights with people like that, you want to use air power, you want to leverage technology.
In fact, the poll found that 60% either support the gun laws or think they didn't go far enough, while 30% told pollsters that the gun laws went too far.
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The NRA said it would include lawmakers' votes on the background-checks proposal in their rankings, but didn't score senators' votes last week to open debate on gun legislation, since the lobby typically doesn't judge lawmakers on procedural votes.
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