Gun Control Advocates Hate Alito Nomination

In 1996, Judge Samuel Alito cast the lone dissenting vote among his fellow Third Circuit Court of Appeals judges when they upheld the authority of Congress to ban fully automatic machine guns.

Needless to say, that vote has brought the wrath of pro-gun control groups, like the Brady Campaign, down on President Bush’s nomination of Judge Alito to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court.

“How could it have gone in any other direction, from a White House that just gave blanket immunity to the gun industry, which refuses to bar terrorists from buying guns, that broke a campaign promise and put Uzis and AK-47s back on America’s city streets, and insisted that records of gun purchases be destroyed before the sun sets on them twice,” asks the Brady Campaign in a press release. “It had to be a Supreme Court pick that favors legal machine guns.”

“Earth to Sammy - who needs legal machine guns?” asked Jim Brady, chair of the Brady Campaign. “The Chicago mobsters of the 1930s would be giddy. But the man I worked for (President Reagan), who gave us Sandra Day O’Connor and signed the 1986 machine gun ban, would be shaking his head.”

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