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Paul Broun’s latest campaign gadget is an AR-15

By Jim Galloway
Jan 24, 2014

U.S. Rep. Paul Broun has decided the time has come for him to corner the Second Amendment market in the GOP race for U.S. Senate. He’s giving away an AR-15, the semi-automatic version of the U.S. military’s M16:

From the email he just sent to supporters:

Today, stand up with me and fight for our freedoms by joining our campaign's contest to win a semi-automatic AR-15….

The contest ends on Thursday, February 27th, 2014.

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In other "Coming soon to MSNBC" news, Buzzfeed got hold of a tracker video of Broun at a University of Georgia College Republicans event on Wednesday talking about airport screenings.

Broun, in a story he has told before, impugns the Transportation Security Administration's screening practices by talking about a time he saw an elderly lady and a child searched, but a man in "Middle Eastern" dress "went right through."

About the Author

Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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