Schumer, Charles

Besides the guns themselves, gun records also became the subject of confrontation. The U.S. attorney general, John Ashcroft, has refused to allow records from firearms back ound checks to be used by terrorism investigators. New York senator Charles Schumer (a prominent gun control advocate) has argued that every day the FBI is barred from using this [back ound check] information, the investigatory trail grows colder. 

Charles Schumer, quoted in Sam MacDonald, Gun Control s New Language How Anti-Terror Rhetoric Is Being Used Against the Second Amendment. Reason, vol. 33, March 2002, p. 16ff. 

Charles Schumer, Democratic senator from New York, former representative from the Ninth District of New York and veteran on the House Judiciary Committee, where he chaired the subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice. Schumer is a strong advocate for gun control who helped pass the Brady Bill he also advocates bans on armor-piercing ammunition and a limit on the number of guns a person may purchase or own without a special arsenal license. ... 

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