As a moderate Democrat in a state with many gun owners, Peltola is navigating pressure on all sides on gun reform.
WASHINGTON — When Alaska U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola joined an Alaska Public Media call-in radio show this week, a self-proclaimed Peltola supporter and longtime hunter called in.
The caller was not the only Peltola supporter to recently express frustration with her posture on guns. The caller’s question came soon after athat left three 9-year-old students and three adults dead in Nashville, Tennessee. After the shooting, some Alaskans who want to see Peltola be more aggressive on gun control
“I get everybody’s frustration. Mary Peltola is still a better alternative to Don Young,” Rochford said. “... Mary Peltola, I think there’s still hope for her, and I think that she’d be willing to sit down and have conversations about it.” She has “for years been steadfast. When she was in the Legislature in Alaska, knowing the importance of having access and the opportunity to possess firearms and ammunition for food security, for gathering the wild harvest, as well as for protection from basically predators,” he said.
Rochford said she voted for Peltola knowing she is a moderate but would be more open to conversations on gun violence than her opponent, Republican former Gov. Sarah Palin, who, Rochford said, “would have put an assault rifle in everybody’s bedroom.” “I’m not necessarily for a gun ban, or a ban on, like, assault rifles, even though my feelings wouldn’t be hurt if they did,” he said.
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