By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Congressional Republicans blocked an effort to prevent suspected terrorists on the federal government’s database from buying guns.
But that isn’t stopping North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper from urging state lawmakers to support a similar ban in his state, the Citizen-Times reports.
“Stopping terror suspects from getting weapons that could harm our state and its people makes common sense,” Cooper said in a news release. “Even if Washington won’t act, we can.”
But whether Cooper has enough support is another question. Some GOP leaders accused Cooper of gun control.
State GOP Chairman Hasan Harnett accused Cooper of “stripping our citizens of their constitutional rights and denying them due process” to score points with his like-minded supporters.
