A hardline gun rights group has demanded an apology from Sen. John Cornyn for calling Texas Republican delegates a 'mob' for booing over his role in Senate...
Texan leads GOP Senate team on response to Uvalde massacre and insists he won’t trample Second Amendment rights.
That did not go over well with some gun owners. On Monday, one hardline gun rights group demanded his apology “for mocking his law-abiding constituents.”“John Cornyn is the definition of a two-faced politician.
“I will not under any circumstance support new restrictions for law-abiding gun owners,” Cornyn assured delegates to the state GOP convention Friday in Houston. “That will always be a red line. Despite what some of you may have heard, the framework that we are working on is consistent with that red line.”
But hardliners view red flag laws as confiscation. Such laws are meant to keep guns away from people deemed to be a danger to themselves and others, typically by a judge.
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