Congressmen John Boozman of Arkansas and Paul Broun of Georgia, in concert with a bipartisan group of 60 other legislators, are fighting to save the rifles.
Boozman and Broun drafted a letter of disapproval (signed by all 62 members of Congress) and sent it on September 17 to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The letter spelled out their disagreement to the ban on these historic firearms.
“The State Department’s faulty reasoning that the M1’s ‘could potentially be exploited... for illicit purposes,’ is the same failed argument that has been used by gun control advocates for years to infringe on the Second Amendment. Blocking the sale of historic rifles is unreasonable and inconsistent with previous decisions made by the Obama Administration, and I urge the State Department to reverse their decision,” said Broun, Co-chair of the Second Amendment Task Force.
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