WASHINGTON - September 16 - Just hours after a Brady Center report highlighted the NRA's repeated and false denials that its bill to gut DC's gun laws would allow assault rifles on the streets of Washington, the gun lobby has revised the bill to prevent the carrying of assault weapons on DC's streets. The NRA's action implicitly concedes that the NRA has been intentionally misleading Congress and the public. The NRA's new bill is still dangerous and should be rejected.
"It is sad that the gun lobby cannot be trusted to tell the truth about its own bill," said Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. "The gun lobby should not be telling the residents of any city that they cannot pass reasonable gun laws that are consistent with the recent Supreme Court ruling to keep their neighborhoods safe, particularly in the nation's capital where government officials and diplomats are prime targets for gun-carrying terrorists and other criminals."
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