Ehrlich backpedaling on gun claims?

As anti-gun advocates continued to characterize him as a pawn of the National Rifle Association, Republican gubernatorial candidate Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. clarified yesterday a statement he made about the state's Handgun Roster Board, contending that he never said he would seek to get rid of it.

On Friday, Ehrlich said he would "review" the state's gun control programs "to see what's working." The two he mentioned were the ballistic fingerprint program, in which state police keep track of shell casing data, and the Handgun Roster Board, which approves all handguns before they can be sold in Maryland.

"The Handgun Roster Board was sold as this really great idea," he said Friday. "I looked at it pretty recently and they were having problems getting folks on the panel and actually doing their jobs." He said state gun crime statistics led him to suspect these programs weren't working and might be a waste of state resources.

Posted on 2002-09-20 00:49:02.0 by matthew@triggerfinger.org

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