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Brandon Williams: I am for this repeal. I have for 18 years been against gun control because I think it is feel-good that does not work.…

On the recordMarch 22, 1996
I am for this repeal. I have for 18 years been against gun control because I think it is feel-good that does not work. So after 18 years, I have 100 percent voting record with the NRA. Now let me say something about the NRA: The NRA, in my opinion, in the last few years, because of its hierarchy, has become an apparatus to elect right-wing politicians to State legislatures and to this Congress. And the members of the NRA ought to understand the partisanship of that group, and if you do not believe it, think of this: President Reagan and President Bush both opposed major legislation that the NRA was for, and they were for major legislation that the NRA was against, and nobody in America knows it because of the partisanship of the NRA. I vote on this issue on the policy of it. But I must say that the NRA has indeed become an apparatus to elect right-wingers.
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Brandon Williams
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Discussing his opposition to gun control and critiquing the NRA's political influence.

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