The Democratic Platform for America: on Gun Control

Reauthorize assault weapons ban, close gun show loophole

We will protect Americans' Second Amendment right to own firearms, and we will keep guns out of the hands of criminals and terrorists by fighting gun crime, reauthorizing the assault weapons ban, and closing the gun show loophole, as President Bush proposed and failed to do. Source: The Democratic Platform for America, p.18

*The above quotations are from The Democratic Platform for America: Strong at Home, Respected in the World, the Party Platform of the Democratic National Committee, approved July 2004.* Click here for definitions & background information on Gun Control. Click here for more quotes by Democratic Party on Gun Control. Click here for more quotes by John Kerry on Gun Control.
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