Following news that a reporter was wounded while watching Missouri Democrat Senate candidate Lucas Kunce shoot an AR-15, Sen. Josh Hawley (R) tweeted, “My grandma is a better shot than Lucas Kunce.”
Breitbart News reported that the wounded reporter, KSHB-TV’s Ryan Gamboa, stood in place after being wounded while Kunce bandaged him up.
With the election only two weeks away and Kunce down to Hawley in the polls, Kunce had been stressing his military service and highlighting the fact that he shoots guns.
After news that Gamboa was struck, possibly with a bullet fragment, while Kunce was shooting, Hawley posted to X:
Elsewhere on X, Kunce was mocked for claiming he had a “great day at the range today,” on the very day that Gamboa was apparently shot.
X users responded to Kunce by saying, “You could’ve killed somebody today, you freaking moron. What kind of a brain dead idiot shoots steel inside 10 yards with a rifle?”
Another X user wrote, “Ask your boy Tim Walz for a tampon to stop the bleed.”
Yet another wrote, “Wait, you shot at steel targets with an AR-15 at that distance? Good Lord.”
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio, a member of Gun Owners of America, a Pulsar Night Vision pro-staffer, and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and has a Ph.D. in Military History. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly: awrhawkins@breitbart.com.