Human Events: McCaskill's Wearing Camo

The conservative Washington-based magazine Human Events is calling Democrat Claire McCaskill, this campaign season's "camouflage candidate," for what she's telling hunters and gun owners about the Second Amendment.

From Lawrence Keane of Human Events:

Claire McCaskill, the U.S. Senate candidate from Missouri, is this season’s camouflage candidate stalking hunters’ and gun owners’ votes. McCaskill, who does not believe law-abiding citizens have a right to carry a firearm, is actually on the record as saying, “ It’s startling to realize this concept (right-to-carry) came within three votes of passing in the Missouri Senate. Imagine the carnage that could have been wrought by would-be Dirty Harrys…” This is not surprising coming from a candidate who believes “voters understand guns are not the answer for safety.” It’s also not surprising that according to the Center for Responsive Politics the bulk of McCaskill’s campaign contributions have come from anti-gun havens Washington, D.C. ($3 million) and New York City ($250,000), not her home state of Missouri.

Here’s the rub: McCaskill is now camouflaging her position on firearms in these weeks leading up to the election. No more is she attacking sportsmen and firearms enthusiasts. She’s running radio spots claiming that by following her dad through the woods as he hunted she learned to value and protect the 2nd Amendment. Yet she has accepted campaign contributions from anti-gun organizations and earned an “F” rating from the NRA. She’s a hunter who is “not interested in taking away anyone's guns," despite the fact that she supported the ineffectual Clinton gun ban of 1994, legislation that outlawed firearms based on their appearance. And as for the concealed carry rights of law-abiding Missourians, legislation that eventually passed despite her vehement opposition, McCaskill now tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she is pleasantly surprised by the effects. Individuals such as Claire McCaskill are not the only folks trying to camouflage themselves as friends of hunters and sportsmen. Today gun-control forces are trying to undermine the importance of the sportsmen and gun owners’ vote by attempting to divide and conquer. An example of such a group is the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA).