BOSTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Scott Brown says states should decide whether to ban assault weapons following a shooting rampage in Colorado that left 12 people dead and 58 others injured at a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises.”
A Brown campaign spokeswoman said Monday that the Republican supports Massachusetts’s assault weapons ban and believes states are the “appropriate venue” for such decisions.
Elizabeth Warren, Brown’s Democratic opponent, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Supporters of tighter federal gun laws want a federal assault weapons ban reinstated. It expired in 2004,
That same year, Brown, then a state senator, voted to extend Massachusetts’ ban on selling or importing military-style semi-automatic weapons.
Then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed the extension into law.
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Gun bans only disarm those who abide by laws. All they do is give them criminals who will aquire a gun regardless of a law. Just like gun free zones, they dont keep crime away. They only disarm the people that could otherwise protect you.
go ahead ban them in Massachusetts and the Revolution starts here !
Cop out!
It’s going to be really hard to have a revolution when a significant number of people support gun control.
The gun control supporter numbers are smaller than you think.