Sanders calls for gun study funding after 1996 vote against similar research

[RandySF]

The email came a day after 14 people were killed in a shooting in San Bernardino, California.

Congress, at the urging of gun rights supporters, put restrictions on CDC funding of gun research into the federal budget in 1996.

Sanders, then a Vermont U.S. representative, voted against an amendment, which ultimately failed, that would have authorized funding for such research, according to the website for the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives. ( 1.usa.gov/1HJAOXR)

Sanders, now a senator, is vying with front-runner Hillary Clinton and former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley for the Democratic nomination for the November 2016 presidential election. Gun control has emerged as an issue following a recent series of mass shootings.

Sanders has been dogged by criticism from gun-control groups since entering the presidential race.

While in the House of Representatives, he supported a 2005 federal law that shielded gun manufacturers, distributors and dealers from civil liability for mass shootings, and voted against the 1993 Brady Bill that imposed mandatory background checks and waiting periods for gun purchases.


www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-sanders-guns-idUSKBN0TN06O20151204#xqV3jM9TZVfhHyXd.99

[Hoyt]

1. Good, he has finally "evolved." Took him long enough.

[Cha]

2. So he's not always "consistent".. which makes damn sense.

[MADem]

3. He's come down to earth on this issue, finally.

He still has a LONG way to go, though.

[AgingAmerican]

4. That was a tiny speck buried in a massive bill

Which included things like mandatory minimums. More corporate dishonesty. Reuters didn't link to the actual bill for a reason.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/house-bill/3755/text