Sen. Schumer Caught in Anti-gun Lie
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Thursday, Nov. 21, 2002
The NRA magazine America's 1st Freedom has caught Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., in "one of his most blatant gun-banner lies to date."
The senator "lied" to the nation when he told Tim Russert on NBC's "Meet the Press" that the Fraternal Order of Police favored widespread so-called ballistic fingerprinting, the publication says.
While debating National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre on the program, Schumer asserted: "Let me read a statement ... 'The FOP, the Fraternal Order of Police, supports the concept of ballistic fingerprinting and considers it a very important law enforcement tool."
America's 1st Freedom then lists FOP's press release, which includes these key sections: "ballistic imprints, unlike fingerprints and DNA, can be altered ... The FOP does not support any federal requirement to register privately owned firearms with the federal government. ... these are law enforcement dollars best spent elsewhere."
Eerily, Schumer said on the show that his ballistic database would involve no names, then later said it would list names.
And check out this line from Schumer: "This is just like when we started fingerprinting criminals back in the '20s. It took about 10 years to have enough fingerprints on the database to make it effective."
America's 1st retorts, "Excuse me, but did we just hear the senator equate peaceable gun owners to criminals?"
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