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The Daily Caller is hoping it lures you to theirs. In a strange new promotion, the site – run by pundit Tucker Carlson – is giving away a FMK9C1 handgun engraved with the Bill of Rights every week until election day to one lucky, trigger-happy contestant.
If nothing else, the conservative website appears to know its audience; since the contest was announced yesterday, “thousands” have entered, the publisher told the Post.
Read more at the Washington Post.
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