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On the recordJune 30, 2010
I think that Heller is settled law, and Heller has decided that the Second Amendment confers such an individual right to keep and bear arms.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas

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Cornyn asserts that the Second Amendment guarantees individual gun rights.

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