NRA claim that Obama is 'coming for our guns' way off target

Here's something you won't hear from the National Rifle Association: The Second Amendment is fading as a wedge issue in American politics, gun owners are winning, and President Barack Obama is doing little to alter the scales.

Nearly one in two Americans now has a gun in the home and just 26 percent favor an all-out ban on handguns, down from 60 percent in 1959, according to a recent Gallup survey. The number of Americans who support tighter gun laws is at an all-time low.

And Obama?

Gun talk has been almost anathema at the White House. Obama signed a bill in 2009 that allows people to carry loaded guns into most national parks; in 2011, he largely avoided a discussion to the anger of many gun control activists about strengthening gun laws following the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

We couldn't find a word about gun policies on Obama's re-election website.

Yet, that's not what the NRA is focused on as it campaigns against Obama in 2012.

In a new campaign mailer the contents of which we expect to be repeated in emails and at dinner tables the gun rights group is casting Obama as a gun control crusader who is "coming for our guns."

PolitiFact decided to put some of the NRA's latest claims to the Truth-O-Meter.

The gun rights group says Obama supported former Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy's proposal "to outlaw all deer-hunting ammunition."

That's False.

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NRA claim that Obama is 'coming for our guns' way off target