Obama's Long History of Attacking Gun Owners and Self-Defense

Big Government reports:

In 2000, Obama, then a state senator, pushed anti-gun legislation--hard--after a 84-year-old woman had been gunned down by three gang-bangers who thought she had won the lottery.

Obama unveiled his anti-gun plan at a rally near the woman's house. "This home invasion is another example of how violence came close to home and we must have congressional action to help reduce gun deaths. Congress has been slow to act on these issues," he said. Rest assured, once elected to federal office, he would act.

The Chicago Defender, a predominately African-American newspaper, featured Obama's proposal in a December 13, 1999 article. Obama, wrote the paper, has "proposed sweeping federal gun control legislation that would increase the penalties for the interstate transportation of firearms, restrict gun purchases to one weapon a month, increase the licensing fee, and ban the sale of firearms at gun shows." (Chinta Strausberg, "Obama unveils federal gun bill," Chicago Defender, December 13, 1999, pg. 3)

Obama was just trying build on Chicago's handgun ban which was part of a grand RICO scheme.