2014 Iowa Senate Debates: on Gun Control

Joni Ernst: Opposes more gun restrictions

Ernst: Strongly Disagree

Doug Butzier: Absolute right to gun ownership

A: Clearly protected by the Second Amendment, but I do support keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally unstable. We have already proven it is impossible to keep them out of the hands of criminals.

Sam Clovis: Opposes more gun restrictions

Clovis: Strongly Disagree

Bruce Braley: Allow lawsuits against gun manufacturers for gun violence

"The background check amendment as it currently exists, I probably would have opposed--not for the reason most people think, but because it immunizes gun manufacturers, who get the economic benefit of that protection and use it to fund all of the legislative assaults on rational measures to reduce gun violence. And I told that to the Newtown families," he told The Huffington Post at the annual Netroots Nation conference.

Bruce Braley: Ban sale of high-capacity magazines & recall existing ones

Braley suggested a federal recall program similar to the umbrella program used by six federal agencies to alert the American people to hazardous products. "The challenge is whether realistically you can get dangerous products off the marketplace," Braley said. "We have recall programs right now for products that have been identified as creating a risk to consumers. So, one of the things that you can do is look at ways of trying to get those back in through a program that would give incentives for doing that."

Sam Clovis: Reduce gun violence but not by punishing gun manufacturers

Sam Clovis responded, "You know Congressman Braley has been in Washington too long when he believes Iowans would support his position that recent assaults on our Second Amendment by the US Senate weren't liberal enough. Our state deserves a Senator who will stand up for the Second Amendment. It is clear Braley wants to advance the left's agenda by raising the specter of liability for gun manufacturers in relation to gun violence. Reducing violence is a goal we all share, but punishing manufacturers, lawful gun dealers and gun owners by infringing on our Second Amendment is not the way to achieve it."