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NRA goes on offensive over high-capacity magazine ban
By Liz Goodwin, Yahoo! News
National Affairs Reporter
PostsEmailRSSBy Liz Goodwin, Yahoo! News | The Ticket 11 hrs agoEmail0Share734Share3Print
The same week President Barack Obama used his State of the Union to warn Congress that the victims of gun violence "deserve a vote" on gun legislation, the National Rifle Association has gone on the offensive against attempts to ban high-capacity magazines that carry more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
The NRA, the nation's largest gun rights lobby, released an ad on Thursday that suggested banning high-capacity magazines will turn the country into a crime-ridden nightmare where only the wealthy are protected from murderers and thieves.
The ad points out that Secret Service and other law enforcement officers will not be barred from using the high-capacity magazines, while criminals would still be able to purchase them on the black market. "It's just the rest of us, the law-abiding people, who will have to defend our families with limited-capacity magazines," a narrator intones. "Welcome to Barack Obama's middle class."
nra-goes-offensive-over-high-capacity-magazine-ban-162148044--politics
By Liz Goodwin, Yahoo! News
National Affairs Reporter
PostsEmailRSSBy Liz Goodwin, Yahoo! News | The Ticket 11 hrs agoEmail0Share734Share3Print
The same week President Barack Obama used his State of the Union to warn Congress that the victims of gun violence "deserve a vote" on gun legislation, the National Rifle Association has gone on the offensive against attempts to ban high-capacity magazines that carry more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
The NRA, the nation's largest gun rights lobby, released an ad on Thursday that suggested banning high-capacity magazines will turn the country into a crime-ridden nightmare where only the wealthy are protected from murderers and thieves.
The ad points out that Secret Service and other law enforcement officers will not be barred from using the high-capacity magazines, while criminals would still be able to purchase them on the black market. "It's just the rest of us, the law-abiding people, who will have to defend our families with limited-capacity magazines," a narrator intones. "Welcome to Barack Obama's middle class."
nra-goes-offensive-over-high-capacity-magazine-ban-162148044--politics
