Wisconsin Congressman Kind A-rated by NRA, his opponent, Buchholz, is not

Buchholz believes NRA is another
corporation that owns Congress

Ron Kind, Western Wisconsin’s current Democratic Congressman, is A-rated by the NRA. 

You can bet the guy who wants to replace Kind in the Third Congressional District would not be. Myron Buchholz is Kind’s primary opponent. Unlike Kind, decidedly not an NRA guy.

“There’s one new corporation that owns Congress in this new gilded age, and that’s the NRA,” Buchholz said. “Politicians with no willingness to stand up and speak common sense to the point where even the majority of NRA members disagree with their leadership.”

Kind tweeted out his support for a sit-in on Capitol Hill this week and, at least, one person was not impressed. 

Buchholz says Kind is among those in Congress not going far enough to restrict access to certain weapons.

“This society has gone so far overboard to believe that we should be able to carry any kind of loaded (weapon) in any place, that we cannot even examine reasonable legislation that, in fact, we used to have,” Buchholz said..

Buchholz, sympathetic to the Democrats who staged a sit-in on the floor of the House this week in Washington, D.C., says he would absolutely support a return to the days of the assault weapons ban in the U.S. Such a ban was signed into law in 1994 and lasted for 10 years.

But Buchholz isn’t opposed to guns. Just the private ownership of certain guns. Assault-style weapons are best suited for the military, he believes. For the general public, they’re only a danger.

“There’s a big difference between a shotgun for duck season, a deer rifle and an AK-47,” he said. People do die, and that is unfortunate. But we also can limit how often that happens.”

And, to do that, Buchholz would like to take more limiting measures for gun ownership Buchholz laments the lobbying grip that the NRA seems to have on Congress