Democratic VP hopeful Tim Walz tried to showcase his hyped-up firearm skills at a hunting event Saturday, but detractors quickly seized on his apparent struggles to load a Beretta A400 semiautomatic shotgun.
Walz participated in the annual Minnesota Governor’s Pheasant Hunting Opener near Sleepy Eye, Minnesota.
On top of not bagging any birds, footage on social media during the hunt showed Walz hunched over, adjusting his $2,100 Beretta A400, while complaining that something “never fits quite right.”
Walz seemed to be struggling to load any shells into his semi-automatic Beretta before the hunt began.
Since being selected as Kamala Harris’s running-mate, Walz has boasted his hunting skills, taunting GOP VP candidate JD Vance by clamoring, “I guarantee you he can’t shoot pheasants like I can.”
Both Harris and Walz have promoted the fact that both are gun owners while seeking to fend off criticisms of their support for gun control.
Many strategists have observed that the Harris-Walz campaign has been leaning on the Minnesota governor to try to boost her standing with male voters amid a pronounced gender gap in the polls ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
However, Walz is far from a gun rights advocate.
In just the last year, the Minnesota Governor signed a “Red Flag” Gun Confiscation bill into law, which would allow the courts to take an individual’s guns away based off a mere accusation.
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