Dick Cheney Says Arizona Shooting Might Be Cause for Tighter Gun Regulations

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Dick Cheney Says Arizona Shooting Might Be Cause for Tighter Gun Regulations

Posted By Adam Borowitz on Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:00 PM

I never saw this coming:

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, a staunch gun advocate, says tighter weapons regulations might be "appropriate" to prevent another tragedy like the Arizona mass shootings that left six people dead and a congresswoman seriously wounded.

Cheney, an avid hunter, said he is "willing to listen to ideas" on how to better control the purchase and use of firearms.

"Whether or not there's some measure there in terms of limiting the size of the magazine that you can buy to go with a semiautomatic weapon — we’ve had that in place before. Maybe it’s appropriate to re-establish that kind of thing, but I think you do have to be careful obviously," Cheney told NBC's Jamie Gangel, national correspondent for "TODAY."