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NRA President David Keene appeared on CBS's Face The Nation to weigh in on the gun control debate. Unsurprisingly, he came out swinging against tighter laws on guns.
"We will continue to oppose a ban on semiautomatic weapons," he said. ""These aren't military weapons," Keene continued. "If we equipped our army with the AR-15, we'd be beaten by every Third World - you know, every Third World dictatorship in the country. Military weapons are fully automatic weapons, and that's illegal. You don't get those. That's not what we're talking about."
Host Bob Schieffer asked Keene if he thought NRA's policies were at least partially responsible for the recent gun violence.
"We don't think they have," he said. "We're living in a country, a free country, where people have a right to express their Second Amendment rights."
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