The Rifle Association's 'True Story'

Summary
The National Rifle Association's misleading attacks on Obama continue. A new ad shows a terrified woman grabbing a gun after an intruder smashes his way into her home. It accuses Obama of voting repeatedly for a measure that would "make you the criminal" in such cases, and voting to "deny citizens the right of self-protection."

The NRA says the incident depicted is "a true story." Not quite.

The actual 2003 burglary didn't involve a woman, and it didn't become violent until the male homeowner went downstairs and started firing before calling police.

The ad fails to mention that the issue was a local handgun ban that made the homeowner's gun illegal to keep in the house.

What Obama voted for was not any general repeal of the right of self-defense, but to uphold enforcement of the local gun ban, a "petty offense" that carried a maximum penalty of a $750 fine.

Analysis
The National Rifle Association continues to go after Sen. Barack Obama on the issue of gun control with a new 30-second TV spot called "Imagine," which it said would run in Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. The ad takes liberties both with the facts of the "true story" it purports to tell, and the substance of Obama's vote.

NRA Ad: "Imagine"
Announcer: Imagine your child screaming in the middle of the night when a convicted felon breaks into your home. Worse, he comes back a second time. You use a firearm to defend yourself and your family. Unbelievably, Barack Obama voted to make you the criminal. It's a true story and it gets worse.

Obama voted four times to deny citizens the right of self-protection even in their home.

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Not Quite "A True Story"
The ad shows a dramatic re-creation of a home invasion and asks viewers to "imagine your child screaming in the middle of the night" as a felon breaks into your home. It shows a woman wearing a nightgown grabbing a handgun. "You use a gun to defend yourself and your family," but "Obama voted to make you the criminal" and to deny citizens "the right of self-protection," it says.

The ad claims "it's a true story," but it isn't quite. No woman was involved, for one thing. And the burglar didn't violently smash the door frame, as shown, but entered using a stolen key.