Jason Kander runs ad challenging Senator Blunt to assemble a rifle

Then, in dramatic fashion, he peels off the blindfold, looks into the camera and holds up the now-assembled rifle.

Borrowing a tactic used during the 1994 senate election by former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey, who earned the Medal of Honor while serving as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam, Kander’s video is meant to paint a portrait of a man who is intimately familiar with the dangers gun pose when they fall into the wrong hands. “Jason Kander refused to defend your Second Amendment rights in Jefferson City”.

Second Amendment advocates argue that background checks would limit a constitutionally guaranteed right, while background-check advocates say it’s a simple matter of keeping weapons out of the hands of unsafe individuals. “Sen. Blunt has been attacking me on guns”, Kander says as he begins assembling the rifle. “Blunt has been attacking me on guns”, Kander says in the video.

He lauded Kander for standing up to the “Washington gun lobby” while protecting “the rights of responsible gun owners”.

Kander, now Missouri’s secretary of state, describes himself as pro-Second Amendment, but also has supported expanded background checks and other restrictions. Blunt do this.”Second Amendment rights are often used as a straw man argument against gun control”.

His stated goal is to show that he knows his way around guns, unlike incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. About 90 percent of Americans support these reforms. About 74 percent said they would support measures that ban people from federal terror watch lists from buying guns. Chris Murphy from CT, the same state where the Sandy Hook tragedy took place, led a 15-hour filibuster to protest a lack of action on gun control by Congress.

“When he fights back, he brings out the big guns”, the ad proclaims. “The bill passed by the Senate today marks an important step toward ensuring that we prioritize resources for the most critical and economically-beneficial projects, including the small ports that serve as on and off ramps to the Mississippi River”.