The National Rifle Association (NRA) hit back at California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal for a 28th Amendment that would increase gun control.
Newsom, a Democrat, proposed a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on Thursday “to enshrine fundamental, broadly supported gun safety measures into law.” The NRA was quick to take him to task.
“Newsom’s latest publicly stunt once again shows that his unhinged contempt for the right to self-defense has no bounds,” the NRA said in a statement to Fox News. “California is a beacon for violence because of Newsom’s embrace of policies that champion the criminal and penalize the law-abiding. That is why the majority of Americans rightfully reject his California-style gun control.”Â
Newsom’s office, in announcing the amendment, claimed that it would keep Second Amendment rights “unchanged,” and that it would regulate weapons while “respecting America’s gun-owning tradition.”
NEWSOM PROPOSES CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO RESTRICT GUN RIGHTS
“[T]he Governor’s proposal guarantees common sense constitutional protections and gun safety measures that Democrats, Republicans, independent voters, and gun owners overwhelmingly support — including universal background checks, raising the firearm purchase age to 21, instituting a firearm purchase waiting period, and barring the civilian purchase of assault weapons,” his office said in a press release.Â
“Our ability to make a more perfect union is literally written into the Constitution,” Newsom said in a statement. “So today, I’m proposing the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution to do just that. The 28th Amendment will enshrine in the Constitution common sense gun safety measures that Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and gun owners overwhelmingly support — while leaving the 2nd Amendment unchanged and respecting America’s gun-owning tradition.”
The proposed amendment would raise the federal minimum age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21, mandate universal…
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