Should the AR-15 be "Americas National Gun"?

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Rep. George Santos takes heat for sponsoring bill to make killer AR-15 assault weapon America’s ‘national gun’

Rep. George Santos came under fire Thursday for co-sponsoring a law that would make the deadly AR-15 assault weapon the “national gun” of the U. S.

The Long Island Republican lawmaker is joining a right-wing push to lionize the killer weapon that has been used in the majority of recent mass shootings in American workplaces and schools.

Santos, who has mostly faced attacks for his serial lying, had already worn an assault weapon lapel pin to Congress to show opposition to gun control regulations like the proposed assault weapons ban that would keep AR-15′s off the street.

Now Santos has become one of three GOP co-sponsors of Alabama Rep. Barry Moore’s bill to give the dangerous weapon the unlikely title of the National Gun of the United States.

Gov. Hochul blasted Santos for ignoring the victims of mass shootings, like the racist attack on a Buffalo supermarket and the Uvalde school massacre.

“This bill, which attempts to glorify the weapons that have been part of such horrific tragedies, adds unforgivable insult to injury for those families,” Hochul said in a statement. “It should never become law, and Santos should immediately remove his name from it, if he has any respect for New Yorkers.”

Semi-automatic assault weapons like the AR-15 have been one of the main targets of gun control advocates because their main purpose is to unleash as many bullets as possible as quickly as possible.

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