This political primary season has seen an unprecedented use of guns to get votes. Republican hopefuls across the country are appearing in political ads firing guns and holding political events around firearms.
Texas State Sen. Donna Campbell won the Republican nomination in her party. In one of her ads, she's seen firing a gun at a target as a narrator lauds her for reducing "the time it takes to obtain a concealed carry license, so more law abiding Texans could exercise their constitutional rights to defend themselves."
In another, candidate Matt Rosendale shoots a rifle at an imaginary government drone — though it did not help him snatch the nomination for a Montana congressional seat.
And in a now-classic ad, Will Brooke, a candidate for Alabama's 6th congressional district, sets up a one-foot-thick copy of the Affordable Care Act for target practice. Then he starts blasting away.