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Jeh Johnson: “I think that we should provide the Attorney General with that added discretion, along with some form of an adjudication…”

On the recordJuly 13, 2016
I think that we should provide the Attorney General with that added discretion, along with some form of an adjudication process to adjudicate the denial if the attempted gun purchaser chooses to do so.
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Jeh Johnson
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Johnson supports giving the Attorney General more power to deny gun purchases to certain individuals.

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