Retired Navy SEAL Defends AR-15 Rifle, Slams 'Political Hacks' Who Want to 'Ban the Gun That You Pray for Police to Show Up With' During Terrorist Attacks

Following the Orlando terror attack, the National Rifle Association was roundly criticized by the left as a main culprit in the deaths of the 49 people shot by Omar Mateen.

But rather than shrink back, the NRA tapped retired Navy SEAL Dom Raso to offer a different perspective on the mega-popular AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. (Despite initial reports, Mateen used a Sig Sauer MCX, another semi-automatic rifle, in the attack.)

Dom Raso (Image source: YouTube)

In a video released just three days after the attack, Raso declared that liberal politicians like presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton continually minimize the threat of radical Islam after terror attacks like Orlando and instead use the carnage to bring up gun control and gun bans (all while under the protection of guards armed with AR-15s and other firearms).

And Raso came out swinging, directing his ire to "every political hack pretending you know an AR-15 from a double-barreled shotgun in the wake of the Orlando terror attack: Stop talking."

"Every word not only exposes your ignorance but your utter contempt for ordinary Americans trying to survive in an age of terror you won't fully recognize," he continued.

Having served as a SEAL for 12 years, Raso lauded the AR-15 as a “commonsense choice” for gun buyers to keep families and neighborhoods safer.

“I guarantee if the Founding Fathers had known this gun would have been invented, they wouldn't have rewritten the Second Amendment, they would have fortified it in stone," Raso noted. "Because they knew the only way for us to stay free was by having whatever guns the bad guys have. This firearm gives average people the advantage they so desperately need and deserve to protect their life, liberty and happiness."

Raso also took to task Fox News' Gretchen Carlson, who wondered on air after the Orlando terror attack if we need AR-15s to "hunt and kill deer" and to "protect our families."

Noting Carlson's support for most Second Amendment issues, on this matter Raso said she "does not understand what she's talking about. The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting."

Raso wrapped up his argument by saying law enforcement officials armed with AR-15s ended the recent terror attacks on U.S. soil, as well as in France and Belgium. Which prompted him to wonder why Clinton believes the answer “is to ban the very gun that stops terror attacks."

"Why would you want to ban the gun that you pray for police to show up with?” Raso asked.

Here's the clip: