NO SURPRISE: GORE SEEKS TO FURTHER CLINTON'S ANTI-GUN LEGACY

"...Gore has taken every opportunity to convince America that he is the unquestionable candidate of choice for the anti-gun community..."

      It is no secret among gun owners that Vice President Al Gore, the odds-on favorite to receive the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2000, has no love for the Second Amendment. But recently Gore has taken every opportunity to convince America that he is the unquestionable candidate of choice for the anti-gun community.

      As we previously reported, Gore cast the deciding, tie-breaking vote in the U.S. Senate on the Lautenberg gun show amendment (see FAX Alert Vol. 6, No. 19). On Monday, July 12, while campaigning in Boston, Mass., he stated that, if elected President, he would push for a federal mandate that all states implement their own licensing system for handgun buyers. Gore also called for a ban on affordable self-defense handguns.

      Gore's only apparent Democrat challenger, former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley (N.J.), who in the past has called for a total ban on handguns, tried to grab the banner as the most anti- gun candidate when his spokesman, Eric Hauser, claimed that Bradley's anti-gun proposals go farther, according to a July 13 Washington Post article.

      While Gore and Bradley fight for top anti-gun honors, NRA will continue to ask why proven, real solutions, like enforcing existing firearm laws before proposing new ones, are still being ignored by the Clinton-Gore Administration and their opponents?

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