Last week Rep. O’Brien was heavily chastised by the local media. This was because he voted against a gun bill that would require reporting of lost or stolen firearms within 24 hours, a bill that the Democrat-controlled general assembly didn’t even vote for.

One of the main reasons for voting against this bill was because it was poorly written legislation that would have been enforceable on many law-abiding citizens that committed no crime, not because it was viewed as wrong in principle. Yet the media came out attacking O’Brien as not caring about his constituents.