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Sanders stresses gun control, calls for assault weapon ban

“We hadn’t hired 50 advance people”, said Tad Devine, a Sanders adviser, recalling the early crowds. Only 100 of those tickets are being made available to the university community.

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Sanders’ campaign staff did not respond to multiple requests from a Free Press reporter for an interview or comment. In a paper published that same year in the book Suing the Gun Industry, law professor Wendy Wagner wrote that if the goal of these suits was to wring damages from gun companies, “gun litigation has been an utter failure”.

[Photo by Warren Little / Getty Images]As a Senator and member of the House, Sanders’ voting record on gun control issues has been mixed.

An estimated 10,000 people gathered at Potts Field on the University of Colorado’s East Campus on Saturday to hear Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speak about his proposals for presidency. In the past, he has occasionally parted from party orthodoxy on gun control. That was a big number, and for a time Sanders held back, unsure he could raise that kind of money. “So he’s taking a side on this”, Hughes said.

“This is the first day we say ‘we’re here.’ We need you”.

I plead guilty-I should have been more sensitive at the beginning of this campaign to talk about this issue”, he said in a New Yorker article this month, speaking about police brutality. “It’s nearly an apples-and-oranges comparison”.

That was a complicated vote and I’m willing to see changes in that provision.

Sanders is “one particular of the guys who says it like it is”.

Bernie Sanders’ microphone had just been taken from him.

Sanders’ idea is, any event, fatuous. In 2013 the Senator voted for the proposed ban on high-capacity magazines and assault weapons. I voted to end the so-called gun show [purchase] loophole. The campaign will host a rally at Stripburger across from the debate’s location, the Wynn, on Tuesday. “But at least he’s consistent and tells the truth”.

Sanders said he would focus his efforts on trying to defeat ISIS rather than removing Assad from office. “I don’t think about it very much”. That was my view from day one.

Nonetheless, federal reform attempts have failed and opinion polls show public support for second-amendment rights to be strengthening . “I’m running now in the Democratic nomination process”. “I would like to see that issue dealt with in Montpelier, and let the people of Vermont become involved”. While the AR-15 may not look like a hunting weapon, it is used by many hunters throughout the country.

“When it works badly it is awful and it is counterproductive”, he said.

May 7, 1994: Three Vermont sporting groups vow to remove Bernie Sanders from Congress.

“Now he can no longer hide behind the sportsmen”, said Thomas Wyckoff of Jeffersonville, president of the Vermont Sportsmen’s Coalition.

“I have been consistent”. Before he announced, Obama had 20,000 names. But we are not electing someone who is an avowed socialist to the nation’s top political job.

Still left unanswered: Which kibbutz helped shape Sanders in the mid-1960s?

Sanders easily wins re-election later that year with 63 percent of the vote. “If you go to a Sanders rally now, there’s a good chance you’ll vote for a Democrat in 2016″.

2002: The National Rifle Association slaps Sanders with an “F” grade. He also supported 2005 legislation protecting gun manufacturers from civil liability lawsuits. His problem is particularly acute when it comes to minority voters. That would signal a shift for Sanders; it would be time to court the Establishment. Barack Obama in Arizona’s 2008 presidential preference election, or major.

2012: Sanders’ NRA rating has dipped to a “D-“.

“It’s families, it’s working people and it’s retirees”.

The last attempt at such a ban, in the aftermath of the December 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre , failed with other measures in the Senate .

He said he sees an opening to advance “common sense gun reform” as well as “a revolution in mental health”. “I intend to play an active role in that debate”.

June 18, 2015: Sanders issues a statement on the “senseless violence” of the shooting at a black church in Charleston, S.C., condemning racism without mention of gun laws. Hailing from a rural state with few gun restrictions, Sanders has sought a middle ground.

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