Fred Guttenberg harsh words for Bernie

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39. Only one of those people is running for president.

Why is it weird for Feinstein to have missed that vote? Why would Feinstein have been ''conflicted''? She has a solid record on gun safety issues.

https://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/Dianne_Feinstein_Gun_Control.htm

How Gunmakers Dealt Themselves a Get-Out-of-Jail Free Card

The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), passed in 2005 and signed into law by President George W. Bush, insulates gun makers from any responsibility for the carnage their product causes.

“Everybody knew it was shilling for the NRA,” says Jim Kessler, who at the time was with Americans for Gun Safety. “It was a gift to the gun industry. It was like passing a bill to grant immunity to the pharmaceutical or tobacco industry. It was no better.”

Kessler watched the vote on C-Span. “You could see senators looking at their Blackberries on the Senate floor, and (then) all but eight voted to kill it,” he says. They had got their orders from the NRA to tank the bill because gun safety advocates working with John McCain had added two amendments to the bill. One, sponsored by McCain, closed the gun-show loophole, the other, sponsored by Dianne Feinstein, extended the assault weapons ban, which after 10 years was expiring.

Once those amendments were added to the bill, the NRA withdrew its support. “That was round one,” says Kessler.

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Then Bush won reelection, and the Senate was once again in Republican hands. With the support of the NRA, Republicans brought up the PLCAA again.

This time, with the Democrats in the minority, the gun safety amendments weren’t in the bill, and it easily passed the Senate and the House. Bernie Sanders was in the House at the time, getting ready to run for the Senate, and he voted for the bill.

“If you read what he said about the bill, it was the talking points of the NRA, that the gun industry shouldn’t be held responsible for people misusing their product,” says Kessler, “That’s the corporatist view.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-gunmakers-dealt-themselves-a-get-out-of-jail-free-card