Rep. George Santos takes heat for sponsoring bill to make killer AR-15 assault weapon America’s ‘national gun’

Rep. George Santos came under fire Thursday for co-sponsoring a law that would make the deadly AR-15 assault weapon the “national gun” of the U.S. The Long Island Republican lawmaker is joining a right-wing push to lionize the killer weapon that has been used in many recent mass shootings in American workplaces and schools. Santos, who has mostly faced attacks for his serial lying, had already worn an assault weapon lapel pin to Congress to show opposition to gun-control regulations like the proposed assault weapons ban that would keep AR-15′s off the street. Now Santos has become one of three...