Much has been made of Bernie Sanders past votes with people going back as far as 1994 to try and potray his as a NRA-backed gun nut. Even though Sanders voted for the assault weapons ban & universal background checks in 2013 somehow he is weaker on the issue than Hillary Clinton. Yes, Bernie has evolved a lot from the 1990s on this particular issue and so has Hillary Clinton, she was singing a completely tune just 7 years ago far different than what she's saying now. Both candidates support the same things when it comes to gun control and have evolved differently on the issue and neither one is 'stronger' or 'weaker' on the issue.
Amid a heated moment in the 2008 Democratic primary, in a debate against then-Illinois senator Barack Obama that April, Clinton argued that “having any kind of blanket rules” set by the federal government on guns “doesn’t make sense.”
Clinton made the comments in response to a question from moderator Charlie Gibson regarding whether she favors the licensing and registration of handguns.
“What I favor is what works in New York,” she said. “You know, we have a set of rules in New York City and we have a totally different set of rules in the rest of the state. What might work in New York City is certainly not going to work in Montana. So, for the federal government to be having any kind of, you know, blanket rules that they’re going to try to impose, I think doesn’t make sense.”
BuzzFeed