“FACT: Romney, as governmor of MA, signed an assault weapons ban into law”
Correction: NOT FACT.
Quote from the NRA:
Despite the efforts of some (including The Boston Globe) to spin this bill as an extension of or creation of a new “Assault Weapons” ban, the bill makes no net changes to the Commonwealth`s laws regarding those types of firearms.
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=1149
Good’ol Fred voted for the Domestic Confiscation gun ban though:
http://www.gunowners.org/pres08/thompson2.htm
Nice try.
You wouldn’t know a fact if it bit you on the butt:
“’Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts,’ Romney said, at a bill signing ceremony on July 1 with legislators, sportsmen’s groups and gun safety advocates. “These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.’”
“Like the federal assault weapons ban, the state ban, put in place in 1998, was scheduled to expire in September. The new law ensures these deadly weapons, including AK-47s, UZIs and Mac-10 rifles, are permanently prohibited in Massachusetts no matter what happens on the federal level.”
http://www.iberkshires.com/story.php?story_id=14812
Romney is pro-second-amendment (he says), but also pro-”assault weapons”-ban. Like John Kerry, he’s on both sides of nearly every issue.
“Mitt Romney supports the strict enforcement of gun laws. He is a supporter of the federal assault weapons ban. Mitt also believes in the rights of those who hunt to responsibly own and use firearms.”
—Romney campaign statement
Deseret News, Sept. 1, 2002
This statement shows that Romney supports the assault weapons ban. But even more troubling is that he doesn’t understand the Second Amendment. It’s not about hunting. It’s about the people’s right to protect themselves from their own government.
http://www.gunowners.org/pres08/romney.htm
Ha, that website you linked isn’t soo kind to your darling Romney either.
Romney Troll you are.