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On the recordNovember 14, 2011
We can have different ideas of the extent to which various gun laws should or should not be extended, but there really should be a bipartisan agreement that we should effectively and sensibly enforce the gun laws that we have.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse calls for bipartisan agreement on enforcing existing gun laws.

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