NRA gives kudos to Bernie Sanders

Sen. Bernie Sanders

In a scenario that seems snatched out of an episode of the "Twilight Zone," the National Rifle Association has given high marks to self-declared socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders for comments he made about gun manufacturers.

The gun lobby's remarks came in context of commenting on Sunday evening's Democratic debate and one of the heated back-and-forths that occurred between Sanders and rival Hillary Clinton. Host Anderson Cooper asked the two candidates if they supported a lawsuit filed by families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims against Remington Arms Company, the firm that manufactured the weapon used by the shooter.

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Cooper pointed out the suit might stall, due in part to the senator's support of a bill in 2005 that shields manufacturers of guns from blame for acts of violence committed by legal buyers, NBC News reported. Sanders doubled down on the message of that bill.

"If you go to a store and you legally purchase a gun and three days later you go out and start killing people, is the point to hold the gun shop owner or the manufacturer of that gun liable? If that's the point, I disagree," he said at the debate, NBC News reported. "If they are selling a product to a person who buys it legally, what you're talking about is ending gun manufacturing in America."

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For that, the NRA tweeted kudos.

"Sen. Sanders was spot-on in his comments about gun manufacturer liability," the group tweeted.

As NBC pointed, the NRA also tweeted this: "Hillary & Bernie are equally bad on #2A. But on untrustworthiness on all topics, @HillaryClinton is unrivaled."

Clinton, the news outlet noted, had voted against the bill when she was a senator representing New York.