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ROCKINGHAM — Richmond County’s congressman on Wednesday sharply criticized Attorney General Roy Cooper in his bid to deny gun sales to individuals on a federal watch list.

U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, R-Concord, said the move could infringe on American citizens’ Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms when they have not been convicted or even formally accused of a crime.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Richard Hudson joined his fellow House members this week in overwhelmingly passing legislation to overhaul the federal visa waiver program.

The bill would bar those from Iraq, Syria, Iran and the Sudan, or those who have visited those countries in the last five years, from traveling to the United States without a visa. The bill was approved on a 407 to 19 vote.

The proposal comes in response to the recent attacks in Paris from ISIS operatives, and the shooting in California by a couple that expressed support for the terror group on social media.

U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson filed for re-election on Dec. 1 in hopes of winning a third term in Congress.

Hudson said that while he feels he has accomplished a a lot so far, he has several other issues he plans to tackle if the voters return him to Capitol Hill for another two years.

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Hudson said forging bipartisan partnerships have been a large factor in the second-term congressman’s early success.