Oops: Clinton sends mailing with nonexistent gun
"Sen. Hillary Clinton’s mailing attacking Sen. Barack Obama’s record on guns appears to include a striking visual gaffe: The image of the gun pictured on the face of the mailing is reversed, making it a nonexistent left-handed model of the Mauser 66 rifle," pens Ben Smith of Politico.
"To make matters worse, a prominent gun dealer said, it’s an expensive German gun with customized features that make it clearly European," Smith adds.
“The gun in the photo does not exist,” Val Forgett III, president of Navy Arms in Martinsburg, W.Va. told Smith.
Forgett said he was sure the gun didn't exist because he was Mauser's agent in the United States. He said there was never a gun with a left-haned bolt, and noted that the original gun cost $2,200, unlikely to be used by an average American sportsman.
"Whoever constructed and approved the mailer did not recognize the image has been reversed,” he said. “I find it laughable on its face... It’s like a picture of Babe Ruth hitting right-handed.”
The gun's image in Clinton's mailing follows below -- first, the gun from then mailer, then the image of the gun.
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