Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says he has evolved on gun-related issues as he was pressed to explain a decades-old vote against background checks.
Sanders said at Friday night’s Democratic presidential debate that, coming from his largely rural state of Vermont, “we had virtually no gun control legislation at all, and I represented that perspective.”
But following mass shootings and gun violence, Sanders said, “The world has changed, and my views have changed.” He also plugged his D-minus rating from the National Rifle Association.
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