The situation in Ukraine undermines Biden’s gun control narrative of “no one needs an AR-15. Period,” or “no way an AK-47 is going to take care of you,” said Aidan Johnston, director of federal affairs for Gun Owners of America.

One of the first things Ukrainian leaders did to thwart Russian invaders under President Vladimir Putin was arm tens of thousands of its citizens with automatic weapons — better known in the U.S. as machine guns, illegal in the U.S. and far more lethal than the semi-automatic assault rifles that, according to several polls, most Democrats would also like to outlaw.

What do machine guns in the Ukraine have to do with gun-control in America? Plenty, some who are pro-gun are saying.

“You see these women, members of Parliament, sitting there…with Kalashnikovs on their lap. This is a boost to the Second Amendment. This is why people need to have the ability to get arms,” former Secretary of Education and drug czar William Bennett told Stuart Varney Wednesday on Fox Business Network’s Varney & Company…

In fact, Second-Amendment activists have been saying for a month, even before the February 24 attack on Ukraine, that Putin’s aggression bolsters their position…

The situation in Ukraine undermines Biden’s gun control narrative of “no one needs an AR-15. Period,” or “no way an AK-47 is going to take care of you,” said Aidan Johnston, director of federal affairs for Gun Owners of America.

“Severe gun control policies infringed on the rights of Ukrainian citizens to keep and bear arms until the very moment a nuclear world superpower launched its ground invasion,” Johnston told Newsweek. “Now it’s up to the government to pass out as many fully automatic weapons as it can in the hopes that civilians might successfully repel a Russian invasion.”…

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