If there's one thing we've learned this political season it is out-of-touch politicians who wouldn't know a shotgun from a revolver should just avoid talking as if they actually had a clue.
The Clinton campaign made some political hay when Barack Obama derided middle America gun owners with his "bitter" speech, and then compounded matters by saying Hillary sounded like she's carrying a six-shooter in a duck blind (which Bill Clinton gleefully pointed out isn't exactly the weapon of choice for fowl).
But, alas, Hillary's apparent advantage in the Dem gun wars disappeared with a recent mailer attacking Obama. The problem? The gun.
Thanks to a graphic genius flipping the image on the mailer, it portrays a left-handed model of a Mauser 66 rifle. But Mauser doesn't make a left-handed model. Plus, this German-made gun has a European double-trigger feature rarely used here and runs about $2,200. Not exactly an everyman's gun for hunting whitetail. As one guy noted, “I find it laughable on its face. It’s like a picture of Babe Ruth hitting right-handed.”
So apparently no one in Team Clinton had the brainpower or, apparently, the knowledge to dig up a photo of an American gun like Remington or, better yet, the iconic Winchester .30-30 lever action rifle most deer hunters cut their teeth on.
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