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    | WI: Balancing public safety and gun rights Submitted by: 
			
Mark A. Taff
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    | I am a member of the NRA, and strongly defend our Second Amendment right to bear arms.
 
 I also agree that private ownership of military fully automatic weapons and machine guns is a real stretch to the intention of the Second Amendment rights. Also, it would be appropriate to have gun registration at gun shows. And, if a legitimate person is on a No Fly List, he/she should not have a right to guns, However, the federal government needs to purge this list before enforcement because there are people on it erroneously.
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     laker1
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    | What good is the 2nd Amendment without semi-auto and for that matter full auto weapons. We the people are the 1st responders to violent crime. The cops come later to put up yellow tape and full auto weapons in many cases. Why should we be at a disadvantage? |  
 
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