Here's something you won't hear from the National Rifle Association: The Second Amendment is fading as a wedge issue in American politics, gun owners are winning, and President Barack Obama is doing little to alter the scales. <\/p>\n
Nearly one in two Americans now have a gun in their home and just 26 percent favor an all-out ban on handguns, down from 60 percent in 1959, according to a recent Gallup survey. The number of Americans who support tighter gun laws is at an all-time low. <\/p>\n
And Obama? <\/p>\n
Gun talk has been almost anathema at the White House. Obama signed a bill in 2009 that allows people to carry loaded guns into most national parks; in 2011, he largely avoided a discussion to the anger of many activists about strengthening gun laws following the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. <\/p>\n
We couldn't find a word about gun policies on Obama's re-election website. <\/p>\n
Yet, that's not what the NRA is focused on as it campaigns against Obama in 2012. <\/p>\n
In a new campaign mailer the contents of which we expect to be repeated in emails and at dinner tables the gun rights group is casting Obama as a gun control crusader who is \"coming for our guns.\" <\/p>\n
PolitiFact decided to put some of the NRA's latest claims to the Truth-O-Meter. <\/p>\n
The gun rights group says Obama supported former Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy's proposal \"to outlaw all deer-hunting ammunition.\" <\/p>\n
That's False. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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