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Mike Barkley is a former member of the National Rifle Association.
He has carried a 45 Smith & Wesson as protection against wild boars and mountain lions on his family's Northern California ranch.
And he knows what crime is like having owned and managed an apartment complex where he lived for nearly two decades in East Oakland.
Now the Manteca resident is seeking the Democratic nomination for Congress with his primary campaign platform being the repeal of the Second Amendment and any pre-existing doctrine of natural law, common-law or laws under state constitutions that allow the right to keep and bear arm.