Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenHillicon Valley: Biden calls on Facebook to change political speech rules | Dems demand hearings after Georgia election chaos | Microsoft stops selling facial recognition tech to police Trump finalizing executive order calling on police to use ‘force with compassion’ The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden campaign goes on offensive against Facebook MORE slammed his Democratic presidential primary opponent Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill’s 12:30 Report: Milley apologizes for church photo-op Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness MORE (I-Vt.) for his record of voting against certain gun reform measures.
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Biden touted his work “helping lead the fight” to pass the Brady Bill that created a system of background checks in a speech Thursday in Las Vegas.
“We don’t grant that kind of immunity to any other major industry. Not the tobacco industry. Not the pharmaceutical industry. Just gun manufacturers. It’s immoral,” Biden said, according to a copy of his prepared remarks.
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“And I think it’s one of the worst votes Senator Sanders has ever taken,” Biden added, referencing Sanders’s vote against the bill in the 1990s.
Biden similarly hit Sanders with an ad Thursday, seemingly going after Sanders’s vote for a bill in 2003 and 2005 that effectively protected gun manufacturers against lawsuits.
It’s time to hold gun manufacturers accountable. pic.twitter.com/2qxmd55x9C
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The campaign ad said the video is from an interview with Sanders on The Thom Hartmann Radio Show the morning of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting.
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“I don’t know that you hold a gun manufacturer responsible for what obviously a deranged person does,” Sanders said in the interview clip used in the Biden ad.
Michael BloombergMichael BloombergEngel scrambles to fend off primary challenge from left It’s as if a Trump operative infiltrated the Democratic primary process Liberals embrace super PACs they once shunned MORE similarly hit Sanders over his record on gun reform Thursday, accusing the National Rifle Association (NRA) of having helped Sanders “get elected.”
Sanders campaign adviser Jeff Weaver said in a statement the NRA “never endorsed” Sanders and the senator has never taken “a dime of their money.”
“In fact, he lost his 1988 Congressional race because he backed an assault weapons ban. But even after that, Sanders maintained his opposition to these weapons of war,” Weaver added.
An official from the Sanders campaign was not immediately available for additional comment in response to Biden’s comments.