JEFFERSON CITY - In a mind boggling example of blatant hypocrisy, Jay Nixon is attempting to use his official state office to hide from damning evidence showing that he has long opposed Second Amendment rights including failing grades from Second Amendment rights groups, his own public statements and even his legal record.

While Nixon recently issued a pathetic media release touting a politically-motivated, follow-the-leader mentality on Second Amendment rights, the public record demonstrates time and again that Nixon vehemently opposes the same Second Amendment rights supported by a majority of Missourians:

• In a November, 1997 speech at a Nixon fundraiser, Bill Clinton praised Nixon for supporting his anti-Second Amendment agenda that included the Brady Bill and the controversial assault weapons ban.
• March 28, 1999 : Nixon told the Columbia Daily Tribune he had spoken against the conceal and carry petition Proposition B throughout the state: “The problems facing our society will not be cured by putting more guns under coats and sweaters in the state of Missouri. I’m not actively involved in campaigning, but I’ve put it in a number of speeches around the state.” 
• January, 2004 : Even though he was representing the state’s conceal and carry law, Nixon openly opposed the measure and his concerns were called “ridiculous” by outside attorney Kevin Jamison who was assisting with the defense of the law.
• During Nixon’s 2004 re-election bid , he received a D- grade from the National Rifle Association. 

“Jay Nixon is engaging in a mind boggling act of hypocrisy by proclaiming his support for Second Amendment rights when in fact the public record clearly shows he has never supported law abiding Missourians right to bear arms. This is just another pathetic attempt by Jay Nixon to mislead Missourians by re-writing his own political history to try and score political points,” said Paul Sloca, communications director for the Missouri Republican Party. “Nixon’s use of this kind of ridiculously transparent revisionism will not prevent Missourians from learning about his very public anti-Second Amendment rights positions.”