Martin O’Malley says he’s “never met a self-respecting deer hunter that needed an AR-15 to down a deer.”

Sunday, during the NBC/YouTube Democratic Debate, O’Malley blasted both Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders saying, “I’ve listened to Secretary Clinton and Senator Sanders go back on forth on which has the most inconsistent record on gun safety legislation, and, and I would have to agree with both of them.”

Moderator Lester Holt asked O’Malley: “There are a lot of Democrats in the audience here in South Carolina who own guns. This conversation might be worrying many of them. They may be hearing, you want to take my guns. What would you say to them?”

“This what I would say, Lester. I’ve listened to Secretary Clinton and Sen. Sanders go back on forth on which has the most inconsistent record on gun safety legislation, and I would have to agree with both of them,” O’Malley responded. “They’ve both been inconsistent when it comes to this issue. I’m the one candidate on this stage that actually brought people together to pass comprehensive gun safety legislation.”

As governor of Maryland, O’Malley said, “After the slaughter of the kids in Connecticut, Lester, we brought people together. We did pass in our state comprehensive gun safety legislation. It did have a ban on combat assault weapons, universal background checks. And you know what? We did not interrupt a single person’s hunting season. I’ve never met a self-respecting deer hunter that needed an AR-15 to down a deer. And so, we’re able to actually to do these things.”

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