Former County Councilman Mike Crossey, who attended Thursday's meeting as a candidate in the 42nd Legislative District, said in a position statement that his gun-safety platform includes mandatory child-safety locks with all gun sales, a ban on the sale of semiautomatic weapons to persons under 21 and required registration of sales for people who buy more than one gun a month.
"My gun-safety proposals do not restrict or hamper hunters, sportsmen or collectors in any manner," his statement says.
Those dont seem to be mutually exclusive positions to me. But then, I'm not a gun grabber."People -- and the media -- believe that people in Pennsylvania are pro-gun," he said. But he disagreed, saying. "More people in Pennsylvania are very interested in reducing gun violence."