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@LilyLovesEarth1 year ago
Cornyn: Top rated by the NRA ????

US politics

Nytimes
With Cornyn in the Room, Senate Gun Talks Focus on Narrow Changes
WASHINGTON - Facing a national crisis with a devastating human toll and entrenched partisan divisions, a small group of Senate Republicans and Democrats pushed forward on high-stakes bipartisan talks that seemed unusually promising - right until the moment they collapsed.
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"It has to be incremental," Mr. Cornyn said in an interview, quickly dismissing Mr. Biden's push for steps that could not pass the Senate, such as renewing a federal ban on assault weapons, limiting high-capacity magazines or raising the age to purchase a semiautomatic rifle to 21 from 18.
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With a top rating from the National Rifle Association, he is viewed with suspicion by liberal activists who have long pressed for gun control legislation and see a cautionary tale in the senator's involvement in past immigration negotiations.
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