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Patrick Leahy: “We are taking the law and bending it as far as we can to capture a whole new class of guns.”

On the recordJune 30, 2010
We are taking the law and bending it as far as we can to capture a whole new class of guns.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Leahy criticized the Clinton-Kagan gun ban's approach to gun regulation.

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