Seven months ago on Meet the Press, Bernie Sanders laid out what his ideal gun control legislation looks like. He said that felons and domestic abusers should not have guns. He wants to close the nonexistent gun show loophole. (The left continually claims that 40% of all gun purchases occur at gun shows, where background checks are not run. This is a lie as anyone who has ever bought a gun at a gun show can tell you.) He also made a comment that could be taken as pure gun confiscation.
Sanders out that his own home state uses guns for hunting and he is fine with that but that he has a problem with people owning guns for other reasons such as self defense or just shooting for recreation. He also used the coded language liberals use to try to convince Americans that the guns they want to ban are of military quality. Take the AR-15 for an example. Many liberals will tell you that the AR-15 is a military weapon, but name one organized army in the world that carries AR-15s. You can’t.
The scope of guns he wants to take away would include 9 mm pistols that are used mainly for target shooting or for self defense. Does anyone believe that such legislation would have any effect on crime at all? I do. I think crime would increase once the bad guys know that the good guys no longer have guns. If you don’t believe me , look at Chicago, Washington DC, LA, New York or any other large liberal cities with draconian gun laws.
Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern wrote this about Sanders and guns:
“Sanders, an economic populist and middle-class pugilist, doesn’t talk much about guns on the campaign trail. But his voting record paints the picture of a legislator who is both skeptical of gun control and invested in the interests of gun owners—and manufacturers. In 1993, then-Rep. Sanders voted against the Brady Act, which mandated federal background checks for gun purchasers and restricted felons’ access to firearms. As a senator, Sanders supported bills to allow firearms in checked bags on Amtrak trains and block funding to any foreign aid organization that registered or taxed Americans’ guns. Sanders is dubious that gun control could help prevent gun violence, telling one interviewer after Sandy Hook that ‘if you passed the strongest gun control legislation tomorrow, I don’t think it will have a profound effect on the tragedies we have seen.’”