GOP lawmakers back ban on Russian oil imports but fought embargo on Russian ammo

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ByEmily Singerand Josh Israel -March 11, 2022 12:30 PM

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and 29 House Republicans sided with the NRA last year against punishing Vladimir Putin's regime over the poisoning of Alexei Navalny.

More than two dozen GOP members of Congress opposed a Biden administration ban on imports of Russian ammunition last year, claiming the sanctions wouldn't hurt the Russian government and instead amounted to "an attempt at gun control."

The 30 congressional Republicans wrote a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in September 2021, opposing their respective departments' sanctions. The Biden administration said at the time that the sanctions were intended to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin over the poisoning of Alexei Navalny — the now-imprisoned Russian opposition leader who opposes Putin and his regime.

But the lawmakers — which included Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and right-wing Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Elise Stefanik (R-NY), and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) — accused the Biden administration of carrying out a backdoor attempt at gun control, saying that the ban on Russian ammunition punished gun owners rather than the Russian government.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/gop-congress-russia-ammunition-oil-ban-imports-ukraine-nra/

So in other words import AK-47....bullets so that they can be used in this country and to help support Russia and its arms sales....and again why haven't these people been expelled from Congress........

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Amazing isn't how the christofascists hatred of communism and socialism doesn't extend...

to one of the preeminent symbols of communist Russia the AK-47.

[turbinetree]

2. Yepper spot on.......

[uponit7771]

3. PUT GZP ASS ON BLAST !!!

[doc03]

4. Never thought about that but we buy a lot of ammo

from Russia. I wouldn't doubt we buy more ammo than
any Russian product.