Bob Casey has continued his stunning shift to the left, signing on to California Democrat Dianne Feinstein’s extreme gun ban bill.
When Casey first ran for Senate in 2006, he opposed gun control, and even touted his past support from the NRA. But immediately after his reelection in 2012, he flip-flopped, becoming an “evangelist” for anti-gun laws. In Casey’s latest anti-Second Amendment crusade, he has signed on to Feinstein’s gun ban, the only Democrat from a state won by President Trump to do so. Casey’s co-sponsors are a who’s who of the Senate’s most extreme liberals, including Feinstein, her fellow Californian Kamala Harris, New York liberal Chuck Schumer and radical Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. Casey’s bizarre leftward lurch is even more notable after yesterday’s win by pro-gun Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Sallie Mundie.
“Bob Casey’s support for Senate liberals’ radical gun ban legislation is a slap in the face to the Pennsylvania voters he lied to about his views on the Second Amendment,” said NRSC Spokesman Bob Salera. “It’s clear that Bob Casey’s allegiance is to Washington liberals and anti-gun lobbyists, not to Pennsylvanians.”
Background:
Casey ran in 2006 as a pro-Second Amendment Democrat. “Casey opposes gun-control laws, including the 10-year ban on 19 types of assault weapons that expired in 2004. He vowed to aggressively court sportsmen’s support by emphasizing his character, his long support for gun owners’ rights and his record in state government. ‘I’ve been a strong supporter of the second amendment, the right to bear arms. That’s evidenced not just by what I’ve said but the support I’ve gotten over the last decade from sportsmen’s groups, including the NRA,’ Casey said.” (Brett Lieberman, The Patriot News, 2/21/06)