On Friday, Inflatable Front Yard Halloween Pumpkin Donald Trump finally admitted that the President of the United States was born in the United States. It was national news, because everything Trump says is national news. The Birther conspiracy is/was among Trump's biggest lies, and it was the catalyst for his batshit political ascension. But another well-known Trump lie is that Hillary Clinton "wants to take your guns." As in, upon taking office, she will literally instruct law enforcement officials to come into your house and violate your Constitutional rights. That entire premise is a lie.

We heard plenty of gun-mongering over the course of four days and nights at the Republican National Convention this past summer, and the claim will undoubtedly resurface as we enter the three presidential debates, the first of which is next Monday. Resurface isn't the right word there; the claim never left our national discourse. Ask a random Trump supporter and/or 2nd amendment advocate why they hate Hillary, and they'll almost certainly tell you that she wants to take our guns. Their guns. Your guns. Again: this is a lie.

And the NRA's new $5 million dollar ad campaign is perpetuating this lie:

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Here is a decent summary of Hillary Clinton's gun policy. Notice how it conflicts with the narrative arc of the above commercial. Hillary Clinton does not want to outlaw handguns like the one seen in this ad. She is not against the use of handguns, like the one in this ad, for purposes of self-defense. Hillary Clinton's gun policy does not involve seizing handguns, like the one in this ad, from normal American citizens.

The NRA knows this. The NRA does not want you to know this. The NRA is lying to you.

Clinton's gun policy primarily concerns expanded background checks and limiting gun purchases for domestic abusers, violent criminals, the mentally ill, and those on the terror watch list. She wants stronger vetting before purchases on the Internet and at gun shows, the kind of large-scale events that the NRA wants to protect. Again: Nowhere in her policy does it mention seizing guns from the homes of average Americans. In no speech has Hillary Clinton ever advocated for such a measure.

But mere hours after his truth-cum-lie about Obama's citizenship, Trump suggested that Hillary Clinton's Secret Service agents should disarm. "Take their guns away, OK, it'll be very dangerous." This was Trump's second veiled threat of gun violence against Clinton in two months. On August 9, he suggested that "2nd amendment people" could do something to "stop" Hillary Clinton.

This ad is also a lie:

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The NRA has always skewed the facts to fit its narrative. But now, with 49 days left until Election Day, the NRA is flat out lying to you. Donald Trump normalized this behavior. It's not going to stop. All anyone can do is call bullshit as they see it.

John Hendrickson Deputy Editor John Hendrickson is the Deputy Editor of Esquire.com, where he oversees the site's 24/7 news operation as well as all politics coverage.

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