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Hillary Clinton hit Bernie Sanders over a vote for legislation that she said created that immunity for gun manufacturers. | AP Photo Clinton puts Sanders on the defensive over gun votes

Hillary Clinton put Bernie Sanders on his heels Sunday when she went after the Vermont senator’s voting record on gun legislation.

Clinton called for comprehensive instant background checks and the closing of the so-called “Charleston loophole” and the gun show loophole.

“I also believe so strongly, Gene, that giving immunity to gun-makers and sellers was a terrible mistake because it removed any accountability from the makers and the sellers,” Clinton said. “It also disrupted what was a very promising legal theory to try to get makers to do more to make guns safer, for example, to try to give sellers more accountability for selling guns when they shouldn’t have, so that is an issue that Sen. Sanders and I differ on.”

Clinton hit Sanders over a vote for legislation that she said created that immunity for gun manufacturers.

Sanders said he agreed with Clinton’s call for instant background checks, but he pushed back on the immunity Clinton referenced.

“If you go to a gun store and you legally purchase a gun and then three days later you go out and you start killing people, is the point of this lawsuit to hold the gun shop owner or the manufacturer of that gun liable?” Sanders asked aloud. “If that is the point I have to tell you I have to disagree.”

Sanders said if gun stores are legally selling guns to people who are able to obtain them, “what you’re really talking about is ending gun manufacturing in America. I don’t agree with that.”