WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton is pledging to tighten gun control – even as she again rejects Republican Donald Trump’s claim that she would abolish the Second Amendment.
The Democratic nominee told supporters at a voter registration event Tuesday in Philadelphia that she will “take on the gun lobby to save lives here in Philadelphia and across Pennsylvania.”
She says that doesn’t mean she wants to abandon the Second Amendment, which guarantees the right to bear arms. But she says she would push for comprehensive background checks, close loopholes in gun laws and bar people on terrorist watch lists from buying guns.
Clinton said: “I want to keep you from being shot by somebody who shouldn’t have a gun in the first place.”
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