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Call for bump stock review a 'significant crack' in NRA's 'political facade': Sen. Murphy - ABC News

posted onOctober 13, 2017
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Article snippet: Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy believes the National Rifle Association's call for a review of bump stock devices in the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting represents "the first significant crack" in the organization's "political facade" and predicted that the anti-gun movement will someday cultivate strength comparable to that of the pro-gun lobby. "We will eventually beat Republicans who vote against the 80, 90 percent of their constituents that want common sense change like universal background checks," said Murphy, a Democrat, on this week's "Powerhouse Politics" podcast with ABC News' chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl and political director Rick Klein. Murphy, whose impassioned, almost-15-hour Senate floor talk-a-thon in 2016 made him one of the country's leading voices on gun control, views bump stocks -- devices that alter semi-automatic weapons to shoot nearly automatically -- as the first opening for those seeking more stringent restrictions on guns. "I do think it shows the first significant crack In the NRA's political facade," said Murphy. "They do not want a legislative fight on this issue because they think they will lose. Thus, they push the [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] to do it administratively." Last week, the NRA's CEO Wayne LaPierre and top lobbyist Chris Cox released a joint statement in which they called upon the ATF "to immediately review whether [bump stocks] comply with federal law." The... Link to the full article to read more

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