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On the recordJune 15, 2016
I did. We hear it constantly, which is this belief that there is a secret agenda, that this is really about a slippery slope to gun confiscation. As the Senator stated very eloquently in his remarks, there is a Second Amendment, and there is an interpretation by the Supreme Court of that Second Amendment that guarantees the individual's right to a firearm, which we cannot broach and which we cannot breach as a legislative body. So that is unquestioned. The question of whether there is a secret agenda is one we have to confront, but the reality here is when we passed the initial background checks law, I am sure people at the time said this is just the camel's nose under the tent.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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