Upper East Side Rep. Carolyn Maloney met with the editorial board of the New York Daily News as she prepares to mount a primary challenge to Kirsten Gillibrand. When Gillibrand was first appointed, she told reporters she kept not one but two guns under her bed for self-defense (she says she’s since moved the guns for fear they’d be stolen). Maloney told the Daily News, “I am for gun control. I don’t have guns under my bed — guns kill.” Maloney also noted Gillibrand’s “evolving” position on guns, immigration, and economic policy as evidence of bad character, and in fairness, Gillibrand doesn’t seem to love the Second Amendment quite so much as she loves being the junior Senator from New York. Still, there aren’t many Democrats left in the Senate who are as hostile to gun owners as Maloney, a fact that may have something to do with there being so many Democrats in the Senate. If Maloney does take down Gillibrand, she might become the poster girl for liberal gun control policies — which might not be such a bad thing for Republicans. HT: Ben Smith
