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Showdown as US Gun Lobby Links DC Voting Rights to Gun Law Repeal
4 March 2009
Salt Lake Tribune (Utah)
WASHINGTON, DC — This showdown harks to the grainy old Westerns: You want voting rights? Well, you're going to have to take them with a dose of cold steel and gunpowder.
A congressional duel is shaping up this week over whether to expand the U.S. House to include new seats for Utah and the District of Columbia. Where once the battle centered on the plan's constitutionality, it now hinges on something more basic and ballistic: guns.
On one side, minority... (GunPolicy.org)