(GunReports.com) — Delegates to the Republican National Convention are considering the most pro-gun political platform ever, supporting national concealed-carry reciprocity, opposing domestic restrictions on ammunition sales, and resisting United Nations interference in gun sales.
Leading the changes from prior GOP platforms was a sentence backing the use of deadly force for self-defense. The added sentence reads: “We acknowledge, support and defend law-abiding citizens’ God-given right of self-defense.”
Besides giving the National Rifle Association and other Second Amendment groups victories on their issues, the platform is also a slap at several Obama initiatives, including the Fast & Furious scandal, his administration’s consideration of a ban on high-capacity bullet magazines, and talk of reviving the assault weapons ban and negotiations in the United Nations over a treaty to regulate small arms sales.
Also added was language opposing restrictions on ammo purchases and supporting the right of those with state-issued concealed carry permits to cross state lines.
Also included was “…the right to obtain and store ammunition without registration. We support the fundamental right to self-defense wherever a law-abiding citizen has a legal right to be, and we support federal legislation that would expand the exercise of that right by allowing those with state-issued carry permits to carry firearms in any state that issues such permits to its own residents.”
