For those of you who may have missed NBC’s Meet The Press today, following is an exchange between the show’s host and Dick Cheny on gun related matters.

MR. RUSSERT: Two votes that really did create a lot of interest, particularly amongst police organizations, were your votes on gun control. The first was a ban on cop-killer bullets?the vote was 400 yes, 21 no?and a vote on plastic guns that terrorists use to hijack planes to get them, undetectable, through security, 413-to-4. Those aren?t Democrat-Republican numbers, liberal-conservatives. That?s a fringe vote. You?re one of four. Today, would you vote to support measures to ban cop-killer bullets and to ban plastic guns that cannot be detected by airport security?

MR. CHENEY: Well, obviously, I?d be happy to entertain that notion. I don?t want to say that I?m absolutely for cop-killer bullets. I?m clearly not. But I think both of those cases, these measures came up under suspension of the rules. They came up where amendments weren?t allowed, debate was limited. We weren?t allowed to get into the substance of the measures. And I had very strong feelings ? and still do ? for the Second Amendment. And I think it?s very clear, very important provision in our Constitution, certainly in keeping with the wants and desires of my folks in Wyoming, that you shall not infringe the right of the people to keep and bear arms. And so I would start with a healthy skepticism and want to take a careful look at any proposal that I thought began to cross over that line. But I think in these cases, part of the problem we had with it was that, it did, in fact, involve suspension of the rules.

MR. RUSSERT: But if it was a clean vote, would you authorize money to ban cop-killer bullets and ban plastic weapons?

MR. CHENEY: Yes.