In 2008, the National Rifle Association issued dire warnings of what would happen if Barack Obama were elected president. He would be "the most anti-gun president in American history," the NRA declared. He would, it said, strip away the right to use a gun for home defense, ban the sale and ownership of handguns, and "increase federal taxes on guns and ammunition by 500 percent."

Obama didn't propose any of those measures, much less achieve them. But never mind. This year, the NRA is making even darker predictions about Hillary Clinton.

"If she could, Hillary would ban every gun, destroy every magazine, run an entire national security industry into the ground and put your name on a government registration list," Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said the other day. "If she gets her hands on the Supreme Court and stacks it with just one more justice, every total gun ban she dreams — every confiscation scheme she craves — will stand up in her court and we'll be kissing our Second Amendment freedom goodbye."

Most of those accusations are the product of LaPierre's overactive imagination. But amid all the hyperbole, he has a point.

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