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Dick Durbin: “It would make even less sense to be bound solely by history.”

On the recordFebruary 11, 2013
It would make even less sense to be bound solely by history.
Said by
Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Durbin asserts that the interpretation of the Second Amendment should adapt to technological changes.

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