$12M Invested in Background Checks

Mayors Against Illegal Guns are buying $12M in TV ads that feature a gun owner who understands that supporting background checks goes hand in hand with defending the Second Amendment - and his family.

Courtesy: thinkprogress.org

(PORTLAND, OR) - Now that assault weapons are secure from efforts to ban them, background checks are still alive as an example of the “incremental” theory of liberal politics.

I doubt they will achieve what the anti-gun movement is after but it’s a test of what really big money can do for a liberal cause.

Mayors Against Illegal Guns, co-chaired by Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino are buying $12M in TV ads that feature a gun owner who understands that supporting background checks goes hand in hand with defending the Second Amendment - and his family. They are directed against these (majority women) Dems:

Mark Pryor (ARK), Joe Donnelly (IN), Mary Landrieu (LA), Kay Hagan (NC), and Heidi Heitkamp (ND)

and, of course, many Repubs.

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