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Bob Barr: “This is hardly a sneak attack. This is an issue, Mr. Speaker, that the American people know. This is an issue, Mr.…”

On the recordMarch 22, 1996
This is hardly a sneak attack. This is an issue, Mr. Speaker, that the American people know. This is an issue, Mr. Speaker, that every Member of this body, every one of the 435 Members of this body, every one of the 100 members of the other body, know backwards, and they know it forwards, they know it sideways. There is no single issue in this 104th Congress, or the 103d, or the 102d, Mr. Speaker, that is more well known, more fully debated than the issue of how to protect American citizens against crimes involving firearms. The rule that the gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon] has come forward with, Mr. Speaker, has itself been fully debated.
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Bob Barr
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Discussing the debate surrounding firearm protection legislation.

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