Issue Position: Second Amendment Rights

Issue Position

Growing up on a ranch just outside Cheyenne, Cynthia learned first-hand the importance of our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Livestock predation by domestic dogs and coyotes was a serious problem and her family's livelihood required her and each member of her family to use firearms to protect their livestock.

Cynthia knows that gun ownership and hunting are important parts of the culture and lifestyle of many Americans. Cynthia Lummis will protect the rights of gun owners.

The 2nd Amendment to the Bill of Rights guarantees the right of individual Americans to own and use firearms.

* Cynthia believes that the government may not broadly limit private firearm ownership.

* Cynthia opposes firearms registration.

* Cynthia believes that gun sales by private citizens who are not engaged in an ongoing firearms business should not be subject to federal background check requirements, whether the sale takes place at a gun show or elsewhere.

* Cynthia believes Bill Clinton's ten year ban on the manufacture for sale to private citizens of certain firearms and ammunition magazines, which expired in 2004, should not be reenacted.

* Cynthia opposes imposing a new waiting period on the purchase of a handgun (the waiting period was eliminated in 1998).

* Cynthia believes that no records should be maintained on any lawful gun buyer.

* Cynthia opposes federal legislation to require firearm owner licensing.

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