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Ted Cruz: “We will filibuster any legislation that undermines the…”

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Sen. Ted Cruz at the 2015 NRA Annual Meeting

Published April 10, 2012 | Video Starts at 11:32

And I'll tell you, I was proud to stand with my friends Mike Lee and Rand Paul in sending a very short two sentence letter to Harry Reid that we said, We will filibuster any legislation that undermines the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Now, we all know what happened. What that did is two things. It slowed it down and it shined a light on what was happening. (11:32–11:39)

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