FILE - In this Thursday Jan. 31, 2013 file photo, gun owners rally to promote the right to bear arms in front of the Statehouse in Concord, N.H. Speakers criticized Democrats in Washington for favoring new gun control laws following the Connecticut school shooting that left 26 dead in December. An immigration debate is raging and a budget crisis looms in Congress, but conservative activists from New Hampshire to Colorado have seized a new rallying cry for the tea party movement: Guns. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
Conservatives make gun issue new rallying cry
Published: 03:54:32 PM, Sat 02 February 2013 UTC
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An immigration debate is raging and a budget crisis looms in Congress, but guns are the new rallying cry that conservative activists from New Hampshire to Colorado have seized on for the tea party movement.
Tea party leaders say the focus on blocking new gun control laws has sprung up with little coordination from national groups.
They say it doesn't matter that neither President Barack Obama nor congressional Democrats are calling for a wholesale repeal of gun rights. Tea party activists are enraged by the possibility of what they see as any erosion of the Second Amendment.
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