Paul Ryan Wants Someone To Close The Gun Show Loophole, As Long As That Someone Isn't Obama

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Paul Ryan Wants Someone To Close The Gun Show Loophole, As Long As That Someone Isn't Obama

by Jennifer Bendery at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-ryan-gun-background-checks_568aec6ee4b0b958f65c9135?utm_hp_ref=politics

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"We all are pained by the recent atrocities in our country, but no change the president is reportedly considering would have prevented them," the speaker said in a statement. "We have seen consistently that an underlying cause of these attacks has been mental illness, and we should look at ways to address this problem."

That's a stark contrast to where Ryan stood in January 2013, when he called the notion of closing the gun show loophole "reasonable" and "obvious."

"I think we need to find out how to close these loopholes and do it in such a way that we don't infringe upon people's Second Amendment rights," he said in an interview with the editorial board of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

"We had this issue, 2001, 1999 I think … when I first got into Congress," Ryan continued. "At the time I remember thinking, 'You know, there is a loophole here. We should address that.'"



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