--- title: NRA Ad Attacks Hillary Clinton Without Mentioning Guns description: Turning out the vote with Benghazi canonical: https://time.com/4388207/nra-national-rifle-association-ad-hillary-clinton/ author: Will Drabold article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-29T18:48:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:56:31.169Z article:section: Politics og:title: NRA Ad Attacks Hillary Clinton Without Mentioning Guns og:description: Turning out the vote with Benghazi og:url: https://time.com/4388207/nra-national-rifle-association-ad-hillary-clinton/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf4fb25266eafc72/698897f28e060177bd4664fa/donald-trump-nra.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association's NRA-ILA Leadership Forum during the NRA Convention at the Kentucky Exposition Center on May 20, 2016 in Louisville, Kentucky. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: NRA Ad Attacks Hillary Clinton Without Mentioning Guns twitter:description: Turning out the vote with Benghazi twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf4fb25266eafc72/698897f28e060177bd4664fa/donald-trump-nra.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # NRA Ad Attacks Hillary Clinton Without Mentioning Guns > Sponsored content. 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Scott Olson—Getty Images by [Will Drabold](https://time.com/author/will-drabold/) ## Will Drabold Jun 29, 2016 6:48 PM UTC The National Rifle Association has targeted Hillary Clinton in battleground states with a new television advertisement that attacks Clinton’s handling of Benghazi. The NRA’s political arm is putting $2 million behind the cable spot that features Mark Geist, a security contractor who co-wrote the book “13 Hours” about the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya. [In the ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time%5Fcontinue=2&v=SIl20jItjHY), Geist says, “I served in Benghazi. My friends didn’t make it.” Geist tells viewers that even if they’re unhappy with their options, they need to do their part and vote to “Stop. Hillary. Now.” The ad ends with an NRA logo below “TRUMP 2016.” The ad comes a day after House Republicans released a report that found no new evidence of wrongdoing by Clinton when she was Secretary of State. While [Republicans heavily criticize](http://benghazi.house.gov/NewInfo) Washington’s handling of the attack, which killed four Americans, repeated inquiries have not found that Clinton obstructed efforts to save prevent the loss of life. Republicans have criticized the State Department, and Clinton, for failing to increase security for the diplomatic mission before the attack. The NRA says the ad will run nationwide with specific focuses in Colorado, Ohio, Nevada, Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maine. “We cannot trust Hillary Clinton with our gun rights or our national security,” said Chris W. Cox, chair of the NRA Political Victory Fund, [in a statement](https://www.nraila.org/articles/20160629/nra-launches-first-tv-ad-of-presidential-election-cycle). The NRA has publicly endorsed Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee. Clinton has been opposed by the NRA for years, and in recent years she has become more aggressive in calling for new regulations of guns. Recently, she called semi-automatic rifles “weapons of war” in the wake of the shooting at an Orlando nightclub. Glen Caplin, a spokesman for Clinton’s campaign, told TIME the ad ignores Democratic efforts to keep terrorists from buying guns and politicizes the deaths of Americans. “The country would be a better and safer place if the gun lobby invested their resources in common sense measures to save lives instead of trying to save Donald Trump’s candidacy,” Caplin said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4388207/nra-national-rifle-association-ad-hillary-clinton/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4388207/nra-national-rifle-association-ad-hillary-clinton/"},"headline":"NRA Ad Attacks Hillary Clinton Without Mentioning Guns","datePublished":"2016-06-29T18:48:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:56:31.169Z","description":"Turning out the vote with Benghazi","url":"https://time.com/4388207/nra-national-rifle-association-ad-hillary-clinton/","keywords":["Donald Trump","Hillary Clinton","republicans","Guns","NRA"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf4fb25266eafc72/698897f28e060177bd4664fa/donald-trump-nra.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Will Drabold","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/will-drabold/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf4fb25266eafc72/698897f28e060177bd4664fa/donald-trump-nra.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association's NRA-ILA Leadership Forum during the NRA Convention at the Kentucky Exposition Center on May 20, 2016 in Louisville, Kentucky.","caption":"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association's NRA-ILA Leadership Forum during the NRA Convention at the Kentucky Exposition Center on May 20, 2016 in Louisville, Kentucky.","creditText":"Scott Olson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4388207/nra-national-rifle-association-ad-hillary-clinton/","name":"NRA Ad Attacks Hillary Clinton Without Mentioning Guns"}}]}] ```