Whoa: Democrat Cory Booker Favored Banning Hand Guns

By Bryan Preston 12:25 PM on January 11, 2013

Flagged by BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski, Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker let the gun-grabbing cat out of the bag on CSPAN in June 2000.

Watching Cory Booker in a 2000 interview with C-SPAN. Asked if he wants to ban guns: “I would, if I had the power to do so, I would.”

— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) January 10, 2013

Here’s the video. Booker’s quote is at 24:28. His moderate cred just evaporated. Banning handguns is a radical position that even Piers Morgan says he does not support.

Bryan Preston has been a leading conservative blogger and opinionator since founding his first blog in 2001. Bryan is a military veteran, worked for NASA, was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show and, most recently before joining PJM, was Communications Director of the Republican Party of Texas.