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On the recordJanuary 19, 2016
However, when the President (and the Attorney General) seek to intentionally create confusion and ambiguity about when someone selling a single gun might be in violation of a law with 5 year jail penalties, one can only call that dishonorable intimidation of the citizenry by its Government.
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Mark Kirk
Republican · Illinois

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Kirk accuses the President and Attorney General of creating confusion around gun laws.

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