As you know, President Obama has been pushing for tougher laws on assault rifles and high capacity magazines ever since the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut.
Earlier this month, Obama signed an Executive order allowing sweeping new gun control measures to go into effect immediately. He also called for Congress to get off their butts and renew Clinton’s ban on assault rifles.
In an interview with New Republic magazine, President Obama was asked if he has ever fired a gun. Pumped with a healthy dose of swagger, Obama answered: “Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time.”
His statement drew swift responses from fellow lawmakers, the NRA, and others who have never seen Obama lift anything resembling a gun.
“If he is a skeet shooter why have we not heard of this,” asked Rep. Marsha Blackburn Monday on CNN. “Why have we not seen photos, why has he not referenced it at any point in time?” during the debate over gun laws, she asked.
In response to the growing chorus of “LET US SEE THE PHOTOS OF YOU SKEET SHOOTING!”, The New Republic magazine tweeted a link to a fake White House website that featured a Photoshopped picture of Obama skeet shooting at Camp David.
The magazine quickly deleted the tweet, calling it’s publication “an accident.”
At this moment, Twitter is busy scrubbing its network of any traces of the picture — probably on orders of the White House.
The picture is being deleted as quickly as Twitter users can put it back up.
The question remains: has Obama ever gone skeet shooting or not?
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