Senator Kerry has cast 59 votes on firearms issues in his Senate career thus far and only 1 vote can be considered a vote for gun owners’ rights—the vote to allow airline pilots to carry firearms.
Kerry has voted against gun owners 55 times in the U. S. Senate. He has voted a number of times to ban semi-automatic firearms.
In fact, he is a co-sponsor of S.1431 (the bill to reauthorize the “assault weapons” ban) which would ban many semi-automatic shotguns, detachable-magazine semi-automatic rifles and many other presently lawful guns, characterizing all of them as “assault weapons.”
Senator Kerry has consistently voted with the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Senator Kerry has voted to “regulate” gun shows by voting to allow authorities up to 3 days to conduct background checks on guns sold by private individuals, knowing full well that the requirement would severely curtail, if not destroy, gun shows which are typically two-day only weekend events.
In addition, Senator Kerry has voted for the imposition of waiting periods on gun purchases, including waiting periods of 14 days, 7 days and 5 days.
And, in spite of this abysmal voting record, the Washington Post reports that 42% of gun owners in the Bush-supporting “red states” believe that Kerry would be a less aggressive advocate for gun control.
In fact, Senator Kerry is more anti-Second Amendment than Al Gore ever was.
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One of Senator Kerry’s votes shows his true hypocrisy on firearms issues.
In 1999, Senator Kerry voted against an amendment to the Juvenile Justice bill that called for increased mandatory minimum and maximum penalties for illegal transfer or use of a firearm.
Instead of supporting a bill that penalizes the criminals who unlawfully use firearms, Senator Kerry goes after the law-abiding gun buyers and sportsmen—not just once or twice, but at least 55 times. Senator Kerry needs to be unmasked for the fraud that he is on this key issue.
Cover and concealment is an appropriate device to be used against enemy soldiers but not against fellow citizens trying to intelligently exercise their right to vote.
Thank you for all that information. I am still trying to figure out how he got elected to anything after he sat in secret meetings with the N. Vietnamese in France! What is wrong with this world that we should have to worry about gun ownership, dog ownership, property rights or having crooks in the legislative bodies of our government!