Mitt Romney’s Record on Gun Control

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[SoConPubbie]

From the 2008 Opposition Research report prepared by the McCain Campaign.

GUN CONTROL

- In 1994 Senate race, Romney backed Brady bill and assault weapons ban, saying “I don’t line up with the NRA” and “that’s not going to make me the hero of the NRA.”

- Romney called Clinton crime bill “a big step forward.”

- As governor, Romney quadrupled gun licensing fees and vowed not to “chip away” at tough gun laws

- In 2004, Romney signed permanent state-level ban on assault weapons that was mirrored after federal assault weapons ban.

- In January 2006, Romney said he owned a gun – then two days later admitted he did not and the gun belonged to his son.

- Romney bragged about being member of the NRA but later revealed he didn’t join until August 2006, just before launching his presidential campaign.

- Romney recently said he’s “been a hunter pretty much all my life” but later admitted he hunted only twice in his life, later clarifying remarks by claiming he has hunted “small varmints … more than two times.”

- In 2006 press conference, Romney claimed he had been hunting “many times” after returning from quail hunt in Georgia.

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton
"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792

[struggle]

HOW RACIALLY INSENSITIVE!</sarcasm>

[SnakeDoctor]

To be honest ... I’m not sure what the parsing of Romney’s rather pathetic record accomplishes anymore. Gingrich is done. Santorum is out. That’s all she wrote.

Romney is what he is. The reality isn’t pretty — but it has to be dealt with. Romney ain’t a conservative. But, he ain’t Obama. Best I can tell, there won’t be a conservative on the ballot.

Unfortunately, “not Obama” may be the best we can get. I sincerely hope, but very much doubt, that Ann Coulter is right about Romney.

SnakeDoc

[Noumenon]

Write in Palin. Prepare for war.

Some of us have been ready for a while now.

[rarestia]

I’m telling everyone I know to have a contingency for another 4 years of Obama. If that means moving money out of the country, re-prioritizing savings goals, learning how to fly or sail, or planting a well-oiled garden, then so be it. There’s too much division on both sides of the political aisle, and I think we may see another 2000 where a third party siphons off votes from both sides, likely to the detriment of the Republicans, this time.

[FrankR]