Mike Pence vice presidential campaign, 2016#Gun control

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## Contents

* 1 Pence on laws governing guns and firearms
* 2 See also
* 3 Footnotes

This page was current as of the 2016 election.
The 2016 Republican Party Platform stated support for "the right of individuals to keep and bear arms, a natural inalienable right that predates the Constitution and is secured by the Second Amendment." The Libertarian Party Platform also stated support for "the individual right recognized by the Second Amendment to keep and bear arms."

In contrast, the 2016 Democratic Party Platform called for "sensible action to address gun violence," and the Green Party Platform called for "[t]houghtful, carefully considered gun control."

See what Mike Pence and the 2016 Republican Party Platform said about laws governing guns and firearms.

##  Pence on laws governing guns and firearms[edit]

* In 2014, Mike Pence signed into law a bill allowing individuals with concealed carry permits to keep a gun in their car while in school parking lots. During an interview with Real Clear Politics, Chris Wallace asked Pence, "[D]o we really need guns closer to schools?" Pence replied, "I have strongly supported the right to keep and bear arms. I truly believe that firearms in the hands of law abiding citizen's [sic] makes our families and our communities more safe, not less safe. And the bill that we just signed here in Indiana really was a common sense reform. We actually have parents that had a permit to conceal and carry a weapon that we're finding themselves guilty of a felony just by dropping their kids off to school. So we just—we made a modest change, a common sense change in Indiana law. And I strongly supported it."[1]
* Mike Pence co-sponsored HR 822—the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011—which proposed authorizing "a person who is carrying a valid, government-issued identification document containing that person's photograph and a valid permit to carry a concealed firearm in one state, and who is not prohibited from possessing, transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm under federal law, to possess or carry a concealed handgun (other than a machine gun or destructive device) in another state in accordance with the restrictions of that state."[2]

* In 2005, Pence voted for S 397—the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act—which "Prohibits a qualified civil liability action from being brought in any state or federal court against a manufacturer or seller of a firearm, ammunition, or a component of a firearm that has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce, or against a trade association of such manufacturers or sellers, for damages, punitive damages, injunctive or declaratory relief, abatement, restitution, fines, penalties, or other relief resulting from the criminal or unlawful misuse of a firearm." It became law on October 26, 2005.[3]

* Read what the 2016 presidential candidates and other vice presidential candidates said about laws governing guns and firearms.

The 2016 Republican Party Platform on laws governing guns and firearms

| “  | The Second Amendment: Our Right to Keep and Bear Arms

We uphold the right of individuals to keep and bear arms, a natural inalienable right that predates the Constitution and is secured by the Second Amendment. Lawful gun ownership enables Americans to exercise their God-given right of selfdefense for the safety of their homes, their loved ones, and their communities.

We salute the Republican Congress for defending the right to keep and bear arms by preventing the President from installing a new liberal majority on the Supreme Court. The confirmation to the Court of additional anti-gun justices would eviscerate the Second Amendment’s fundamental protections. Already, local officials in the nation’s capital and elsewhere are defying the Court’s decisions upholding an individual right to bear arms as affirmed by the Supreme Court in Heller and McDonald. We support firearm reciprocity legislation to recognize the right of law-abiding Americans to carry firearms to protect themselves and their families in all 50 states. We support constitutional carry statutes and salute the states that have passed them. We oppose ill-conceived laws that would restrict magazine capacity or ban the sale of the most popular and common modern rifle. We also oppose any effort to deprive individuals of their right to keep and bear arms without due process of law.

We condemn frivolous lawsuits against gun manufacturers and the current Administration’s illegal harassment of firearm dealers. We oppose federal licensing or registration of law-abiding gun owners, registration of ammunition, and restoration of the ill-fated Clinton gun ban. We call for a thorough investigation — by a new Republican administration — of the deadly “Fast and Furious” operation perpetrated by Department of Justice officials who approved and allowed illegal sales of guns to known violent criminals.[4]

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—2016 Republican Party Platform[5]

## See also[edit]

* Mike Pence
* Mike Pence vice presidential campaign, 2016

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ↑ Real Clear Politics, "Gov. Mike Pence On Gun Control, Ukraine, His Political Future," April 27, 2014
2. ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.822," accessed April 2, 2015
3. ↑ Congress.gov, "S.397," accessed April 2, 2015
4. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
5. ↑ Republican Party, "The 2016 Republican Party Platform," accessed August 23, 2016

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