The National Republican Senatorial Committee released three ads on Tuesday accusing Democratic Sens. Sherrod Brown (OH), Joe Manchin (WV), and Jon Tester (MT) of taking away the right of wounded veterans to own firearms. They did not.
The NRSC is the official campaign arm of the Senate Republican caucus, working to elect and reelect GOP senators across the country. It has targeted Brown, Manchin, and Tester, who represent states former President Donald Trump won in both 2016 and 2020.
The 30-second spots cite a June 22 vote in which Senate Democrats defeated a Republican attempt to roll back a gun safety rule. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives regulation in question, finalized on Jan. 31, clarified that if gun owners attach a stabilizing brace to their weapons, those guns should be treated as rifles under existing law. By using a brace to transform a firearm into a rifle, individuals had previously been able to circumvent registration and taxation requirements for rifles. Shooters used stabilizing braces in several recent mass shootings, including at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.
In the West Virginia ad, a narrator says:
They sacrificed protecting our freedoms, but Democrat Joe Manchin turned his back on West Virginia’s veterans. Manchin may talk like a Republican … but he votes like a liberal, joining Washington extremists to deny wounded veterans their Second Amendment rights, limiting constitutional freedoms, pushing more...
The lawsuit alleges the CCRB’s online database, 50-a.org, unfairly harms officers by listing serious accusations including sexual misconduct, racial profiling and making false official statements ...