{Barnes after he sold out so many of his conservative Democrat supporters with his "smoke-filled room" midnight deal}
Barnes seriously thought about being a Veep in 2004. He needed to statisfy the moonbats in order to be in the running for consideration. Fortunately, Sonny Perdue defeated him in the biggest political upsets in GA history. Interestingly though, Barnes did receive NRA endorsements in 1998 and 2002.
Barnes was strong on 2nd Amendment rights, I'll give him that.
In fact, off hand I can't think of very many Georgia Democrats from outside of the Atlanta perimeter that haven't been at least reasonably good on 2nd A issues, except for the much venerated Senator Sam Nunn who somehow got away with supporting practically every anti-gun bill that came up for a vote.