I say to the Senator, I have a series of questions and some comments. First, I come from a predominantly rural State with a very high number of gun owners, a very low rate of gun crime. What you are talking about here today, adding the terrorist watch list as one of the elements of the background check and covering the noncovered parts of gun sales, online gun shows, will that have any practical effect on the gun owners in Maine?
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I know him from working with him in the Senate before he became secretary. I have no reason to think that he's not telling me the truth. But my motto, as with Ronald Reagan, is trust but verify.
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