Sessions said, “Hillary Clinton is the most anti-Second Amendment [presidential candidate] perhaps we’ve ever had, [and] she said again, recently, that the Hellerdecision–that protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms–was wrong.”
He went on to discuss the current 4-4 split of the court regarding gun rights. He said that Clinton would use the presidency to replace Antonin Scalia with a justice who opposesHeller, thereby pivoting away from upholding the Second Amendment as the defense of the “personal right to have a gun.” In fact, Sessions said allowing Clinton to pick the next justice would be tantamount to letting her empower “every city, county, and state [to] completely ban firearms in America.”
Sessions’ statement came just two days after presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told NRA Leadership Forum attendees that Hillary would “abolish the Second Amendment.”