03/29/2011
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"It strikes me as disproportionate and one that is basically being used inappropriately to try to bully someone into pleading guilty to something that strikes me as rather minor."
"A crime not prosecuted does not produce the kind of deterrence that we would want to prevent other people from committing those similar crimes."
"So there would be 3.5 or 4 million of these weapons that would be prohibited prospectively under this legislation that would still be in the possession of American citizens?"
"There is no confiscation of weapons or anything of that sort contemplated by anyone."