“What’s the problem with registering a gun?” Mitchell asked Erich Pratt, communications director for the Gun Owners of America. “If you have a bushmaster, first of all, why would you have one?”

Pratt replied that Reagan owned that type of assault rifle, which was used in the mass shooting last month at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. When Mitchell countered that Reagan was in favor of gun control, Pratt said, “In his later years. We have to keep that in account.” Pratt also argued that Reagan opposed gun control throughout his presidency.