The NRA put Bernie Sanders in Congress, And Other Inconvenient Facts.
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NRA President Wayne LaPierre told Vermonters to vote for Bernie.
When Sanders ran in 1990, the NRA ran ads against his opponent.
When Sanders ran in 1990, the NRA ran ads against his opponent.
After the NRA helped him get elected, Sanders voted against the Brady Bill FIVE times.
The Brady Bill established background checks on firearms and imposed a five-day waiting period on purchases.
The Brady Bill established background checks on firearms and imposed a five-day waiting period on purchases.
In 2005, Bernie voted for an NRA-backed law that gave gun makers sweeping immunity from legal action, killed several pending state and local lawsuits and led, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, to a “deadly decade of unchecked gun industry negligence.”
Senator Sanders has said that he’ll stand up to “the NRA and its corrupting effect on Washington.”
But the truth is that if the NRA has corrupted Washington, Bernie is among the corrupt.
But the truth is that if the NRA has corrupted Washington, Bernie is among the corrupt.
