John Kerry Wants to Ban Guns in America

Tuesday, August 10, 2004



John Kerry’s 20-year U.S. Senate voting record opposing Second Amendment rights
brands him as the most anti-gun presidential nominee in U.S. history!

HERE’S PROOF
FACT: Kerry has voted nine times in favor of banning semi-automatic firearms. 1
FACT: Kerry has voted to ban most center-fire rifle ammunition, including the
most common rounds used by hunters and target shooters.2
FACT: Kerry has voted to close off hundreds of thousands of acres of the
California Mojave Desert to hunting.3
FACT: Kerry has voted to hold the highly regulated American firearms industry
legally responsible for the illegal acts of violent criminals.4
FACT: Kerry was one of only 15 Senators to oppose the Firearms Owners’
Protection Act, which ended alarming abuses being committed under the 1968 Gun
Control Act.5
FACT: Kerry was one of only 29 Senators to vote to prohibit gun manufacturers
from discharging debts created by the reckless lawsuits filed by
municipalities.6

Cartoon courtesy of Jeff RiffleFACT: Kerry has voted to allow BATF to conduct
unlimited, warrant-less inspections of FFL holders.7
FACT: Kerry has voted to criminalize legal sales between private individuals at
gun shows.8
FACT: Kerry has voted against increasing mandatory minimum and maximum penalties
for the illegal transfer or use of a firearm. And yet he has also voted to
impose penalties of a year in prison and a $10,000 fine on an adult if a
juvenile steals a firearm from him, and then merely displays it in a public
place.9
FACT: Kerry has voted to force many small firearms dealers out of business,
which would have impacted both the availability and price of guns, particularly
in rural areas.10

FACT: Kerry has voted 11 times to force law-abiding citizens to wait to exercise
their Second Amendment rights. He voted to keep the federal waiting period after
the National Instant Check System was in place.11
FACT: Kerry voted twice to eliminate the Civilian Marksmanship Program.12
FACT: Kerry wants to silence gun owners’ voice. When NRA sought the same
exemption from campaign finance rules that news organizations have, Kerry called
that effort “hijacking America’s airwaves.”13
FACT: Kerry commended the Million Mom March for their march on Washington that
included calls for gun owner licensing, gun registration and other restrictions
on law-abiding gun owners.14
FACT: Kerry twice supported legislation that would have mandated the inclusion
of trigger locks with any handgun sale, forcing individual gun buyers to
purchase products they did not necessarily want or need.15
FACT: If elected president, Kerry will pack the U.S. Supreme Court with Dianne
Feinstein/Chuck Schumer/Ted Kennedy-selected anti-gun activists who believe you
have no right to own any firearm.
FACT: Senator John Kerry has a 100% voting record with the Brady Campaign
(formerly Handgun Control Inc.), a national gun-ban group.

DEFEND FIREARMS. DEFEAT KERRY. VOTE NOVEMBER 2.



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"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the
right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."


"In order to be free our forefathers had to shed their blood. That was a great
deed. But an even greater deed was to put in writing our guaranteed rights as
citizens of this land. The 2nd Amendment being the single most important cause
without it there would not be freedom and we would live in a Free society. So it
is our legacy to protect our freedom by standing and being heard, telling our
elected officials that we will not allow our rights to be taken away. Not now
nor ever.
So remember "Fight the fight for freedom cause we will never be free if we stop
doing so."-James (Hose) Hostetler

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