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Hunt, Jones continue bickering over gun bill
By Phil Kabler, The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- In a floor speech Thursday, Delegate Mark Hunt, D-Kanawha, recanted -- sort of -- a claim he made earlier in the week that Charleston Mayor Danny Jones had referred to supporters of a bill to nullify city and county gun ordinances as "idiots."

Hunt said that in reviewing articles regarding Jones' opposition to the bill (HB2760), he determined that the mayor had not used that word. However, Hunt noted that after a similar bill advanced from the House Political Subdivisions Committee, Jones was quoted as saying he hopes "wiser heads prevail."

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Hunt, Jones continue bickering over gun bill
By Phil Kabler, The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- In a floor speech Thursday, Delegate Mark Hunt, D-Kanawha, recanted -- sort of -- a claim he made earlier in the week that Charleston Mayor Danny Jones had referred to supporters of a bill to nullify city and county gun ordinances as "idiots."

Hunt said that in reviewing articles regarding Jones' opposition to the bill (HB2760), he determined that the mayor had not used that word. However, Hunt noted that after a similar bill advanced from the House Political Subdivisions Committee, Jones was quoted as saying he hopes "wiser heads prevail."

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