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Woops! Jeb's campaign admits he was never made 'NRA statesman of the year' - or given a gun by Charlton Heston Former Florida governor had claimed to receive National Rifle Association's top annual award in 2003 BUT the NRA has no such award Bush was keynote speaker at the group's annual meeting in Orlando Campaign spokesman says GOP presidential hopeful mixed up events unintentionally Jeb Bush's still-sputtering presidential campaign was forced to retract an embarrassing mistake by the former governor on Monday, saying Bush was 'mistaken' that he had received a 'statesman of the year' award from the National Rifle...

Jeb Bush loves talking about how Moses once gave him a gun. A staunch supporter of Second Amendment rights, Bush frequently tells the story of being honored as National Rifle Association "Statesman of the Year" and being awarded a gun by Charlton Heston. "You know who you're lookin' at here? You're looking at the guy who won the NRA Statesman of the Year award," Bush said last month at a town hall in Milford, New Hampshire. "Not the Florida award. The national award. And I got a rifle from Charlton Heston, I got a rifle from Moses." It's a similar...

It turns out Moses never gave Jeb Bush a rifle. The Republican presidential candidate has told crowds several times in the past year about receiving the National Rifle Association's Statesman of the Year award from Charlton Heston, the late Hollywood legend and former leader of the gun rights group who once played Moses in a movie. "You know who you're lookin' at here? You're looking at the guy who won the NRA Statesman of the Year award," Bush said last month at a town hall in Milford, N.H. "Not the Florida award. The national award. And I got a rifle...