Below is the text from the Mitt Romney Gun Rights page, as of 2/16/12:
As the Supreme Court recently reaffirmed, the Second Amendment
protects one of the American people’s most basic and fundamental individual
rights: “the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.” The Second Amendment is essential to
the functioning of our free society. Mitt strongly support the right of all
law-abiding Americans to exercise their constitutionally protected right to own
firearms and to use them for lawful purposes, including hunting, recreational
shooting, self-defense, and the protection of family and property.
Like the majority of Americans, Mitt does not believe that
the United States needs additional laws that restrict the Second Amendment
right to keep and bear arms. He believes in the safe and responsible ownership
and use of firearms and the right to lawfully manufacture and sell firearms and
ammunition. He also recognizes the extraordinary number of jobs and other
economic benefits that are produced by hunting, recreational shooting, and the
firearms and ammunition industry, not the least of which is to fund wildlife
and habit conservation.
Mitt will enforce the laws already on the books and punish,
to the fullest extent of the law, criminals who misuse firearms to commit
crimes. But he does not support adding more laws and regulations that do
nothing more than burden law-abiding citizens while being ignored by criminals.
Mitt will also provide law enforcement with the proper and effective resources
they need to deter, apprehend, and punish criminals.
As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt was proud to support
legislation that expanded the rights of gun owners. He worked hard to advance
the ability of law-abiding citizens to purchase and own firearms, while
opposing liberal desires to create bureaucracy intended to burden gun owners
and sportsmen. As governor, he also designated May 7th as “The Right to Bear
Arms Day” in Massachusetts to honor law-abiding citizens and their right to
“use firearms in defense of their families, persons, and property for all
lawful purposes, including common defense.”
As president, Mitt will work to expand and enhance access
and opportunities for Americans to hunt, shoot, and protect their families,
homes and property, and he will fight the battle on all fronts to protect and
promote the Second Amendment.
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