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Barack Obama: We can take steps to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them under existing law.

On the recordJuly 21, 2012
We can take steps to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them under existing law.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney

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