2022 AL Senate race: on Gun Control


Lynda Blanchard: Against restrictions on the 2nd Amendment

Biden is Backwards! He took credit for Trump's Operation Warp Speed, Encouraged more restrictions on the 2nd Amendment, and unveiled his obsession for wasteful spending. I look forward to fighting for our conservative values in the U.S. Senate. #BidenIsWrong #SecondAmendment #USSenate #Trump #BlanchardForSenate
Source: Facebook posting for 2022 Alabama Senate race May 9, 2021

Lynda Blanchard: Executive order an assault on law abiding gun owners

Joe Biden's executive order on guns is nothing but an assault on law abiding gun owners. Instead of handling the border crisis, he is trying to unilaterally dismantle our 2nd Amendment rights.
Source: Facebook posting for 2022 Alabama Senate race May 9, 2021

Mike Durant: Will fight for Constitutional Carry, opposes red flag laws

The left's attempts at gun control are an unconstitutional encroachment on our liberties. While our nation has faced tragedies, using those horrific situations to take away Second Amendment rights from individuals is just wrong. Mike will fight for Constitutional Carry, only support judges who vow to uphold our Second Amendment rights, and oppose any attempt at unconstitutional red flag laws
Source: 2022 Alabama Senate campaign website MikeDurant.com Mar 30, 2022

Mo Brooks: Socialists hope for mass gun confiscations

Q: Are mass gun confiscations likely if Democrats are able to keep the presidency and continue their hold on Congress?

Brooks: The socialists certainly hope so. Congressman Eric Swalwell came to Alabama in 2020 and said exactly that. You either give up your guns or he will have law enforcement seize them from you.

Q: In your opinion, will we ever conclusively know who won the 2020 election?

Brooks: That reminds me of the time that Sen. Daniel Inouye said 'How America stole the Panama Canal fair and square.' Biden & his team stole the election fair and square, but now he has been sworn in as President so he won.

[OTI: It was actually Republican Senator Samuel I. Hayakawa who said in 1976 that we should keep the Panama Canal because "we stole it fair and square." In the 1970s and 1980s, Samuel Hayakawa was a Senator from California of Japanese-American descent; Daniel Inouye was also of Japanese-American descent but was elected to the Senate from Hawaii until his death in office in 2012.]

Source: Alabama Political Reporter on 2022 Alabama Senate race Mar 25, 2021

Will Boyd: I want you to have as many guns as you want

[On Second Amendment rights]: "I'm not somebody who wants to take guns away," Boyd said in a recent interview. "I grew up with guns in the house," Boyd said of his childhood in South Carolina. "I want you to have as many guns as you want." Just enforce the existing laws on who shouldn't get them, Boyd said, and he's fine.
Source: Birmingham News on 2022 Alabama Senate race Jun 13, 2017

Mo Brooks: 2nd Amendment is about taking government back from dictators

The Second Amendment is designed to help ensure that we, the citizenry, always have the right to take back our government should it become dictatorial. That was a great fear of the Founding Fathers and, quite frankly, it's a fear today. The moment that we take from our citizenry our ability to take our government back is the moment that the ability of dictatorial forces increases to the point where perhaps they will try to implement a dictatorial government at the federal level.
Source: Fox News Sunday on 2022 Alabama Senate race May 29, 2022

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Candidates and political leaders on Gun Control:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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