Bush Administration Ends
Clinton/Cuomo Gun-Surrender Program
The Bush Administration has once again shown common sense in
rejecting a costly and ineffective anti-gun policy of the past
administration. On Monday, the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) announced it would end the gun-surrender
program implemented by
former HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, who
fancied himself the point-man of Bill Clinton's anti-gun
crusade.
Critics of Cuomo's program protested it was a waste of
tax-payer funds, had no impact on reducing crime, and fell well
outside HUD's purview. Congressional appropriators and HUD's own
Inspector General agreed that the program was also an illegal
diversion of taxpayer funds. HUD spokeswoman Nancy Segerdahl
concurred, stating, "This is clearly not part of the core mission
of HUD."
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