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Joe Cunningham: I would also let the gentlewoman know I am a member of the NRA, and that I have trigger guards, or my weapons are all in…

On the recordMay 7, 1997
I would also let the gentlewoman know I am a member of the NRA, and that I have trigger guards, or my weapons are all in safes and my daughters and my son have been taught how to use those in a safe manner. In fact, the keys are in a different position, in case one of their friends walks in and finds it, so they will not have an accident. But I would also advise my friends on the other side to look into COSCO, who shipped in 2,000 fully automatic AK-47's. The actual gun runners themselves were in the White House and contributed to the DNC; Mr. Huang, who contributed and arranged $366,000 for COSCO, a company owned by the Communist Chinese. I would ask that they look into the M-2's that were going down to Mexico to disrupt those elections, so they put leftists in their legislature. And do my colleagues know where the AK-47's were impacted and headed for in San Francisco, in my State of California? They were targeted for the inner city gangs. These are fully automatic weapons, which we do not sanction. But I would ask for a little bit of clarity when my colleagues point fingers. Let us take a look at where the threats are in this country and let us try to stop them, but we also need to look inwardly.
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Joe Cunningham
South Carolina

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Discussing gun safety and illegal arms shipments during a floor speech.

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