A former Tulsa police officer admitted during testimony before the House Judiciary Committee that she would “not comply” with an assault-style weapons ban if Congress were to pass one.
Dianna Muller, a 22-year veteran of the Tulsa Police Department and the founder of gun advocacy group The DC Project, was one of many to testify in front of the committee during their Protecting America from Assault Weapon hearing Wednesday.
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“Please don’t legislate the 150 million people just like me into being criminals. It has happened. You’ve already done it,” Muller said, referring to the Trump administration’s ban on bump stocks, according to Fox News. “I was a bump stock owner, and I had to make a decision: Do I become a felon, or do I comply?”
She went on to say, “I will not comply,” if the administration were to pass an assault-style weapons ban.
The issue of gun control took on renewed vigor last month after mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, which left approximately 30 people dead. Following the massacres, President Trump argued in favor of closing some of the loopholes in background checks, but later walked back that idea after facing backlash from the National Rifle Association.
