Issue Position: Second Amendment
Issue Position
Issues: Guns
The preservation of second amendment rights is very important to significant numbers of East Tennessee citizens, but the tragedies inflicted by gun violence must be acknowledged.
*Existing US laws involving gun access must be enforced.
*Current laws have regulated civilian access to machine-guns (also called automatic weapons) since 1934. Embellishment add-ons such as bump stocks which allow existing guns to function like machine guns should fall under these same restrictions.
*Government officials do not have the right to take guns away from law-abiding citizens.
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