Montana’s Amanda Curtis, No Friend of the Second Amendment Despite Media Spin

Missoula, MT –-(Ammoland.com)- A Missoulian story about aspirant for the Democrat nomination for U.S. Senate (to replace withdrawn Walsh), Amanda Curtis of Butte, has her portraying herself as a supporter of the Second Amendment.

The article says, “Curtis said she’s a strong supporter of the Second Amendment of the Constitution and that she and her husband own firearms.”

That’s not what her record says, not by a long shot.

Montana Shooting Sports Association tracked 24 gun-related votes cast by Curtis in the Montana House last session. Curtis voted anti-gun on 23 of 24 opportunities. For that, she scored a miserable 2.6%. A 59% score would have earned her an “F” on gun issues. She is well below F-, if there is such a thing.

Curtis voted:

• NO on a bill to encourage manufacturers to move to Montana and create new jobs if those manufacturers make firearms (HR5).
• NO on two bills to protect hunters’ hearing by allowing sound reduction for hunting (HB205 & HB27).
• NO on a bill to prohibit the university system from suspending the Montana Constitution (HB240).
• NO on a bill to allow investigators working for public defenders to carry firearms for self defense (SB133).
• NO on a bill to exempt from criminal “disorderly conduct” charges a hunter who fires a shot at a deer or elk (even the Governor disagreed with her on this bill) (HB446).
• NO on a bill to allow people located inside city limits the same ability for self defense as those outside city limits (HB304).
• NO on a bill to allow a person eating at a restaurant that serves beer to provide for his or her self defense (HB358).
• NO to medical privacy for gun owners (even the Governor disagreed with her on this bill) (HB459).
• NO to preventing newspapers from publishing the private information about people who have been issued a concealed weapon permit by the local sheriff (the Governor disagreed with her on this bill too) (SB145).

Curtis is virulently anti-gun. Her claim to support the right to keep and bear arms sounds like the beginning of another Walsh thesis.

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