McKinley Earns 100% from Virginia Gun Owners
March 18 , 2008
Contact: Brad Jansen
703-470-9893
vern@mckinleyforcongress.com
Vern McKinley, Republican challenger to Congressman Wolf in the 10th Congressional District, earned a perfect rating of 100% by the Virginia Gun Owners Coalition (VGOC). The rating was based on responses to a survey of federal legislative priorities for the VGOC on a range of issues regarding the right to keep and bear arms, including the Washington, DC gun ban, the Brady Act, background checks, concealed carry and gun free school zones.
Congressman Wolf is probably best known among 2nd Amendment advocates in Virginia for a 2004 vote against a repeal of the Washington, DC gun ban. At that time, the VGOC awarded Congressman Wolf its “Hall of Shame Award” as he joined Congressman Tom Davis of the 11th Congressional District as the only Republicans in the Virginia House delegation voting against the repeal.
The issue of the 2nd Amendment is in the news this week because of the Supreme Court’s review in the Heller case. For the first time in 70 years, the Court will consider whether the Constitution grants an individual the right to own a gun.
Just this past weekend, McKinley spoke at mass meetings of the Warren County and Loudoun County Republican Committees. He talked to many gun owners who have this issue at the top of their list of priorities and who remember Congressman Wolf’s vote. McKinley noted his hope that “the Supreme Court will restate what is painfully obvious from the plain words of the 2nd Amendment: the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
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