Another 'Pro-Gun Democrat'

In case you've seen some stories about Trump's CFPB appointment being messily contested, this offers some good insights into what's going on and why. [More]

Short answer: Cordray is a Democrat. In spite of his having gotten "pro-gun" creds from NRA and Buckeye Firearms, the party will tolerate his wandering from the reservation as long as it enables him to be in an advantageous position to support Democrats and help advance their overall agenda.

I wrote a piece years back that only exists now in the Internet Archive. That in turn linked to other stories where Cordray had played on the gun-grabber side of the street. For whatever reason the page appears briefly and then vanishes with a DNS server error message.  Here's the link -- I'll see if I can get in another way, but this is really outside any skill set I have. If any of you know how to capture the page, please help.

UPDATE: Thanks to WarOnGuns Correspondent Henry Bowman, the page has been resurrected:

Why Didn%27t OH AG Sign Letter Opposing Semi-Automatic Firearms Ban by David Codrea on Scribd

I Saw This Debate on South Park

Cordray, the former attorney general of Ohio appointed by Obama to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is locked in a dead-heat race with Republican state Attorney General Mike DeWine... [More]

And gun owners are supposed to get fire in our bellies...?

Will it boil down to who is more dangerous?

Perhaps I should let the candidates speak for themselves.

Ohio AG: NRA Said Signature on Gun Ban Opposition Letter 'Not Needed'

"Attorney General Cordray spoke to his contacts at the NRA who told him the congressional leadership had already decided not to renew the ban and, therefore, our advocacy was not needed at that time" [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner gives an answer to a question asked several months back.

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DeWine reverses decision to ignore improved law enforcement training

It is admittedly unknown if such training, had it been seriously adopted and conducted, would have mattered in the Crawford and Rice cases, or if the specific circumstances leading to their shootings would have shown Ohio law regarding openly carrying arms to be irrelevant. Would it have made a difference if DeWine (and Cordray and Rogers before him) had acted on the documented warnings? That is a question for attorneys for family survivors to pursue, and if they do, it will be up to courts to decide. [More]

Today's Gun Rights examiner report notes another reversal from a guy who seems to specialize in them whenever they're the political thing to do. Noting the truism about "progressives" and Opposite Day, is it any wonder the Brady Campaign praised this fraud as a "principled statesman" -- until he figured out which side the votes were on?

More Gun Rights Questions for Ohio AG Cordray

How hard could it be for the state's top law enforcement officer, the AG, to write a memorandum recognizing the legality of peaceable open carrying, and send it to every police and sheriff's department in the state, as well as to the Highway Patrol? One would assume flow-down communications explaining his interpretations and positions on law enforcement issues are already established and routine.

And how hard would it be for the individual LE departments to transmit this information to their sworn personnel? Again, one would assume they all receive policy training as a condition of employment. If you're already having them sign acknowledgments such as they understand sexual harassment rules, etc., and placing that in their personnel files, how much more effort would be required to have each officer sign and date a simple acknowledgment that he or she understands open carry is lawful? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column asks a few simple questions that could save a life from someone with the power to do something about that .

And as long as questions are being solicited, how about if we see if he'll answer a few more...? After all, one of his rivals has.

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