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As President Obama prepares to travel the country to drum up support for federal gun control laws ahead of a Senate vote in April, one idea is gaining steam at the state level: mandatory gun insurance.
Not surprisingly, the National Rifle Association is opposed to liability insurance, calling it an 鈥渆conomically discriminatory鈥� measure that would tax a constitutional right.
鈥淵ou don鈥檛 have to carry insurance to exercise any other constitutional right,鈥� NRA spokeswoman Stephanie Samford .
Other pro-gun groups are similarly opposed, saying it unfairly taxes law-abiding Americans and may make it prohibitively expensive to own a gun, thereby infringing on Second Amendment rights.
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