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Roger Williams Statement on President’s Executive Order

January 5, 2016

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Roger Williams (R-Texas) today released the following statement in response to President Barack Obama’s executive order which will restrict the purchase and sale of firearms in the United States.

“From his first day in office this president has made it clear he has an antigun agenda,” said Williams. “President Obama has shamelessly used every national tragedy to promote his antigun proposals even when they would not have prevented those incidents. If our liberal academic president had it his way, he would gut the second amendment by himself. The American people deserve a president who respects their constitutional rights. The constitution is the foundation of our government, and I will not sit back and let this president pick and choose which parts to uphold. President Obama must go by the constitution, not around the constitution, and I certainly will not let him prevent law abiding citizens from practicing one of their most important rights.”

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