Falsely? Hmmm....
"" Obama has consistently supported gun control
legislation that came up while he was in the
Illinois state legislature and the U.S. Senate.
For example, when Obama ran for the Illinois
state senate the political group, Independent
Voters of Illinois (IVI), asked him if he
supported a “ban [on] the manufacture, sale
and possession of handguns” and he
responded “yes.”
Realizing how damaging this could prove in
the general election, his presidential campaign
“flatly denied” Obama ever held this view,
blaming it instead on a staffer from his state
senate race.
But then IVI provided Politico the
questionnaire with Obama’s own handwritten
notes revising another answer. Members of
IVI’s board of directors, some of whom have
worked on Obama’s past campaigns, told
Politico that “I always believed those to be his
views, what he really believes in, and he’s
tailoring it now to make himself more
palatable as a nationwide candidate.”
But the IVI questionnaire isn’t the only one
out there.
In 1998, another questionnaire administered
by IL State Legislative National Political
Awareness Test didn’t ask about banning all
handguns, but it did find that Obama wanted
to “ban the sale or transfer of all forms of
semi-automatic weapons.”
Indeed, such a ban would outlaw virtually all
handguns and the vast majority of rifles sold
in the United States.
In addition, from 1998 to 2001, Obama was on
the board of directors for the Joyce
Foundation, which funded such anti-gun
groups as the Violence Policy Center, the Ohio
Coalition Against Gun Violence, and Handgun
Free America. Both the Violence Policy Center
and Handgun Free America, as its name
suggests, are in favor of a complete ban on
handguns. During his tenure on the board, the
Joyce Foundation was probably the major
funder of pro-control research in the United
States.
In fact, I knew Obama during the mid-1990s,
and his answers to IVI’s question on guns fit
well with the Obama that I knew. Indeed, the
first time I introduced myself to him he said
“Oh, you are the gun guy.”
I responded “Yes, I guess so.” He simply
responded that “I don’t believe that people
should be able to own guns.”
When I said it might be fun to talk about the
question sometime and about his support of
the city of Chicago’s lawsuit against the gun
makers, he simply grimaced and turned away,
ending the conversation.
If taken literally, Obama’s statement to me
was closer to what the IL State Legislative
National Political Awareness Test found,
indicating that Obama's bans would extend
well beyond handguns.
Obama also opposes the current laws in 48
states that let citizens carry concealed
handguns for protection claiming, despite all
the academic studies to the contrary, that "I
think that creates a potential atmosphere
where more innocent people could (get shot
during) altercations."""
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/04/07/obama-and-guns-two-different-views.html
I submit that O's stance on firrearms is pretty clear.
