How does the gun ruling affect the Obama campaign?


	How does the gun ruling affect the Obama campaign?

izzy3r

6-27-2008 8:00 AM

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guns, supreme court, obama, mccain

izzy3r says:

I'm a country girl and some of my family (not me) likes to go hunting, but I do believe in strict gun control for handguns and bans on automatic weapons. From what I gather, Obama supports the same position.

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