GOP Candidate For State Senate Calls For Magazine Restrictions

By Tom Knighton

It’s easy to get into a very binary kind of thinking when it comes to politics and guns. We tend to think of Democrats as being anti-gun and Republicans being pro-gun.

To be fair, the Democrats that have been elected at the federal level in recent years really do seem to buy into that stereotype. More than that, they seem to outright revel in it. They’re anti-gun and they love that fact about themselves.

But the flip side isn’t always true. While most allies of the Second Amendment within the halls of Congress are Republican, that doesn’t mean it’s universal within the party.

For example, there’s at least one candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates who seems to disagree with that stance.

A Republican running for the Virginia House of Delegates is calling for stricter gun control, a message at odds with GOP leadership and virtually every Republican officeholder in the state.

In a TV ad that begins airing Tuesday, Mary Margaret Kastelberg calls for more background checks, limits on magazine size and a “red flag” law that would allow authorities to temporarily take guns away from people deemed a danger to themselves or others.

“Nobody needs a 100-round magazine,” said the …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms