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Former NRA President: Marco Rubio Wasn’t ‘a Friend to Gun Owners’ in FL
Breitbart ^ | January 11, 2016 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 02/05/2016 9:07:30 AM PST by JSDude1

Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)

79%

is taking a hard position against President Obama’s current gun control push, but various reports on Rubio’s time in the Florida house of representatives and U.S. Senate show a past marked by a fluctuating relationship between Rubio and gun rights. In one such report, published in 2010, former NRA president Marion Hammer said Rubio “has not been a friend to gun owners.”

Hammer was reflecting on the difficultly that attended the passage of a bill guaranteeing employees the ability to keep guns in their cars at work for self-defense.

According to Politico, Hammer described Rubio as a man who talked pro-gun when the cameras were rolling but worked in ways that hurt the bill’s chances of passage behind the scenes. Hammer said, “He has not been a friend to gun owners. He tried to cover himself by voting for it after doing everything he could to work against it. He plays to an audience

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; elections; gangof8; guns; liberty; nra; rubio
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To: Travis McGee

One could say that he vacillates from perverted to reverted, and back again, politics being the ultimate whoredom.


21 posted on 02/05/2016 1:34:57 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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