NRA darling Ted Cruz requires background check for supporters who want to shoot with him [View all]

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Texas Republican senator and Second Amendment champ Ted Cruz has worked hard to quash legislation that would expand background checks for guns – unless those guns are going shooting with him.

Cruz, a 2016 presidential candidate, crusaded against a 2013 bill that would have expanded background checks on gun sales nationwide in the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. But if you want to participate in “Shoot With Cruz” fundraiser and sweepstakes, you’re going to have to submit to a background check, Talking Points Memo reports.


While the requirement didn’t appear on the entry page or a promotional email, TPM scoured the website for the Cruz campaign fundraiser and found the caveat buried in fine print, on a separate page altogether.

“Sponsor may, at its option, conduct a background check on each potential winner. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any potential winner from receiving the Prize based on such background check if Sponsor determines, in its sole discretion that awarding the Prize to such potential winner could result in a safety or security risk to any person or persons or could result in the disruption of any event associated with the Promotion,” the sweepstakes rules read.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/nra-darling-ted-cruz-requires-background-check-for-supporters-who-want-to-shoot-with-him/