Alaska Public Media asked candidates if they would support a ban on the manufacture and importation of semiautomatic assault weapons.
Assault-style rifles on display at Chuck’s Firearms gun store in Atlanta. The gunmen in two of the nation’s most recent mass shootings, including the massacre at a Texas elementary school, legally bought the assault weapons they used after they turned 18.
Forty-eight candidates are running in the special election to fill the rest of Congressman Don Young’s term. It’s the most candidates ever in one election in Alaska. First up is the primary. BallotsTo help Alaskans sort through the dozens of options, we’re asking each candidate where they stand on the issues.
Here’s how they responded, in their own words, to the following question about banning assault weapons: Would you support a ban on the manufacture and importation of semiautomatic assault weapons, as defined in the federal assault weapons ban that“NEVER. Read the preamble to our Bill of Rights. They’re restrictive clauses against Our US government we created. Constitutionally ALL our civil rights are off limits to them including owning high capacity semi automatic rifles. More responsible firearm owners are the answer.”“I see no reason to not reimpose the ban as it was in 2004.
The following candidates are on the ballot, but Alaska Public Media has not yet received a response to our emails: Dennis Aguayo, Brian Beal, Chris Bye, John Callahan, Lady Donna Dutchess, Otto FlorschutzLaurel Foster, Tom Gibbons, Karyn Griffin, William Hibler, David Hughes, Robert Lyons, Anne McCabe, Mike Melander, Emil Notti, Josh Revak, Maxwell Sumner, Richard Trotter, Bradley Welter, Jason Williams and Jo Woodward.Alaska Public Media is our partner station in Anchorage.
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