Some Democrats running for election this fall are embracing the gun issue – by flaunting them in campaign ads they’re airing in pro-gun states, despite the fact that many of them have contrasting records.
“Guns in campaign ads have frequently been Republicans’ bread and butter,”
BusinessInsider.com reports. “GOP candidates looking to shore up support among the party’s base routinely use guns to tout their appreciation for the Second Amendment. But in an era during which many national Democrats are drawing hard lines on gun control, the party’s moderates in more hotly-contested districts and states are taking a page out of the GOP playbook.”
“Despite his eagerness to appear gun-friendly in a pro-gun state, Manchin’s record on gun rights is vastly different,” Ryan Flugaur, Senior Political Director for the National Association for Gun Rights, told
Gunpowder Magazine.
“Manchin, like other red-state Democrats, is desperate for West Virginians to forget that he sponsored Obama’s
de facto gun registration and ban on private firearm purchases in 2013, and continues to this day to demand things like striping gun rights from young adults under 21, including single mothers,” Flugaur said.