In his interview with the Daily News Sanders said there were circumstances where he supported legal action against gunmakers.
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And he’s already squaring off with another combative opponent: the New York Daily News.
Sanders, in the Daily News interview, offered an example of someone using a gun to kill another person and said the gun seller should not be sued.
At a phone bank event for Clinton’s campaign last week in Stamford, Murphy attempted to draw a contrast between Clinton’s and Sanders’ records on gun control.
“He is dead wrong on guns”, Malloy said.
“As many people have noted this is the one issue on which [Hillary] can attack Sanders on the left”, he said.
The Vermont progressive also supports the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act – a controversial law that protects gun makers and dealers from liability if crimes have been committed with arms or ammo they sold or manufactured. In an op-ed the following month, Murphy wrote that he was glad Sanders “has reversed his previous position”, but said that Clinton was the only candidate who has been a consistent champion of tougher gun laws.
Democratic lawmakers from CT slammed Sanders after an interview with the editorial board of the New York Daily News was published Wednesday.
Wednesday’s front page of the daily newspaper blasts Sanders fo rremarks he made in an exclusive interview with the publication, where he reportedly said he did not support plaintiffs locked in a lawsuit tied to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in 2012. “Sanders, that he would place gun manufacturers’ rights and immunity from liability against the parents of the children killed at Sandy Hook is just unimaginable to me”, Clinton said. “So if somebody walks in and says, ‘I’d like 10,000 rounds of ammunition, ‘ you know, well, you might be suspicious about that”.
Murphy responded, “supporting restoring liability for sellers is not the same thing as restoring liability for gun makers”.
“Bernie voted for the semi-automatic assault rifle ban, and would do so again”, a campaign spokesperson said.
The law, Murphy said, holds gun makers to a different standard than other manufacturers. “Senator Sanders may well have lost his first campaign for Congress in 1988 because he supported a ban on assault weapons”.
Sanders and Clinton sparred over immunity for gun manufacturers during a debate in March.
“I do not believe, I didn’t believe then and I don’t believe now, that those guns should be sold in America”. They’re designed for killing people. “Proponents of repealing PLCAA believe that without immunity, gun manufacturers and dealers would make changes in how they’re designing & marketing these deadly weapons with an increased focus on public safety”.
Soto’s family is part of the Sandy Hook lawsuit, and she said on the call that her sister was killed with an AR-15 rifle, which “had no business being in citizens’ hands”. As a presidential candidate in 2008, however, she posed as someone who was so gun friendly that then-Sen.
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“Hillary could’ve checked all the right boxes on the issue of guns and chosen to focus her campaign on other issues but from the very beginning Hillary decided to make the fight against the gun lobby a central part of her campaign”, he said.
