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Bob Barr shares a 83% similarity with your beliefs on Gun Control
I strongly oppose restrictions on access to firearms
Q: I think we are one real bombing, shooting, or something away before the government says we have to do these things and start pulling in guns. Do you believe that is probable? A: Not at this point. It is always a potential problem down the road.
The only legitimate use of force is in defense of individual rights — life, liberty, and justly acquired property — against aggression. This right inheres in the individual, who may agree to be aided by any other individual or group. We affirm the right to keep and bear arms, and oppose the prosecution of individuals for exercising their rights of self-defense. We oppose all laws at any level of government requiring registration of, or restricting, the ownership, manufacture, or transfer or sale of firearms or ammunition.
National Platform of the Libertarian Party, Adopted in Convention, May 2008, Denver, Colorado
Barr holds a lifetime A rating from the NRA, and has been elected to a third consecutive term on the National Rifle Association's Board of Directors.
Voted YES the Mandatory Gun Show Background Check Act HR 2122: To require background checks at gun shows, and for other purposes. It requires: -Background checks of all buyers of guns at gun shows that involve or in some way affect interstate commerce, with at least 50 firearms for sale and 10 firearm vendors present. -Background checks to be completed in 24 hours, down from 72 hours originally allotted for checks. -Individuals to obtain instant check registration if they plan, organize, promote, or operate a gun show. -States that an instant check registration entitles the registrant, for a three-year period, to contact the national instant criminal background check system for information about any individual desiring to obtain a firearm at a gun show if a vendor requests assistance. -Requires child safety devices to be sold along with handguns. -Prohibits children under the age of 18 from possessing firearms or ammunition. -Increases the penalty for committing a crime using a gun with a large-capacity magazine to a minimum 15-year jail sentence.
Bill Number: HR 2122, Date: 06/18/1999
"The Second Amendment is the first amendment and we need to retain it, we need to strengthen it, we need to insure the laws at the federal or the state level such as the unconstitutional 'DC Gun Ban' which is currently up before the US Supreme Court.
I strongly oppose a ban on assault weapons
"Bob Barr is smart, relentless and very extreme," said Representative Charles E. Schumer, the New York Democrat who last year championed the passage of the Federal assault-weapons ban that Mr. Barr, Republican of Georgia, has made a target for repeal in his role as chairman of the House's new Firearms Legislation Task Force. "As a former prosecutor," said Mr. Barr, who respects Mr. Schumer as no less extreme in his antigun passion, "I believe the attention ought to be on the criminal, not on the law-abiding citizen who may become a criminal only because we passed a gun ban."
Sponsored Citizens' Protection From Violent Crime Act of 1995 which included provisions to repeal the ban on semiautomatic firearms and the ban on large capacity ammunition feeding devices.
I am neutral on running background checks on individuals purchasing guns.
Voted YES on decreasing gun waiting period from 3 days to 1. Vote to pass a bill requiring anyone who purchases a gun at a gun show to go through an instant background check which must be completed within 24 hours [instead of 72 hours].
Bill introduced by McCollum, R-FL; Bill HR 2122 ; vote number 1999-244 on Jun 18, 1999
Voted YES the Mandatory Gun Show Background Check Act HR 2122: To require background checks at gun shows, and for other purposes. It requires: -Background checks of all buyers of guns at gun shows that involve or in some way affect interstate commerce, with at least 50 firearms for sale and 10 firearm vendors present. -Background checks to be completed in 24 hours, down from 72 hours originally allotted for checks. -Individuals to obtain instant check registration if they plan, organize, promote, or operate a gun show. -States that an instant check registration entitles the registrant, for a three-year period, to contact the national instant criminal background check system for information about any individual desiring to obtain a firearm at a gun show if a vendor requests assistance. -Requires child safety devices to be sold along with handguns. -Prohibits children under the age of 18 from possessing firearms or ammunition. -Increases the penalty for committing a crime using a gun with a large-capacity magazine to a minimum 15-year jail sentence.
Bill Number: HR 2122, Date: 06/18/1999
