• Sarah Palin is a full supporter of the right to keep and bear arms as stated in the Constitution. In her own words, "I am a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association, I support our Constitutional right to bear arms and am a proponent of gun safety programs for Alaska's youth."
• Sarah Palin has been a hunting and fishing enthusiast from the age of ten when she shot her first rabbit. She learned hunting and fishing skills from her father and describes the sports as her hobbies. Palin herself has commented that her freezer is full of wild game.
• Being the lifelong member of NRA, Palin supports the campaign to end the ban on handguns that had been in place for more than three decades.
• Palin vehemently opposes restrictions on access to firearms. Palin, as Governor of Alaska, signed a multi-state amicus brief, part of which reads as follows: "The Framers were understandably wary of standing armies and the powers of a potentially oppressive government ... The introductory clause [of the Second Amendment], properly understood, confirms the primary benefit of the operational clause -- a citizenry capable of defending its rights by force, when all other means have failed, against any future oppression."
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