Joe Walsh

Walsh described himself as a “big gun guy” at a Business Insider’s GOP event, according to the website. He said: “I believe in the Second Amendment, plain and simple. There’s no silver bullet to this issue.” At that same event, Walsh noted that he believed there should be background checks: “When I leave here in about an hour if I go to a gun dealer down the street and I want to buy a gun … I have to get a federal background check. It makes sense to me that if I buy that same gun at a gun show, I should have to undergo a federal background check. It makes the same sense to me that if I buy a gun online, I should have to undergo the background check. It makes similar sense that if I buy that same gun from a friend across town I should have got a background check.”