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Michael D. Barnes
Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.
Michael D. Barnes
It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it.
Michael D. Barnes
It is a law that did what it said it would do - no more, no less. It hasn't caused a single hunter to lose a single day of hunting. The opponents of this law, the NRA, said it would prevent law-abiding citizens from purchasing guns. It has not. They said it would lead to government confiscation of guns. Obviously it has not.
Michael D. Barnes
In most places in the United States, on your way home tonight you can stop at a gun store and buy 500 rifles. You could buy 50,000 rounds of ammunition to go with those 500 rifles and get a cup of coffee while your background check is run, and then you can come back and load the guns in your truck and all that ammo and head home.
Michael D. Barnes
In an age of terrorism, in the age of the Patriot Act - when law enforcement officials have a valid reason to confiscate box cutters, corkscrews or nail clippers, we're going to make assault weapons legal again. It simply boggles the mind.
Michael D. Barnes
If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns.
Michael D. Barnes
If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.
Michael D. Barnes
I've never had a family member who lost his or her life or was shot, but I did have a good friend, former Congressman Allard Lowenstein from New York, who was shot by a staffer who walked into his office and killed him with a handgun. I spoke at his funeral.
Michael D. Barnes
Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime.
Michael D. Barnes
Even though Shays-Meehan will impact our election activities as well. The gun lobby's ability to obstruct the progress of sensible gun laws. Shays-Meehan will level the playing field so that our lawmakers are no longer beholden to special interest groups like the NRA.