The Party bought the gun-control ad, which is running only in the Washington market, where support for gun control runs higher than in other parts of the state. The new ad opens with a hand pulling a black gun out of a case then the image switches to Allen shaking hands with two men, one in black leather, the other in camouflage. Both wear Harley-Davidson insignia.
Later images show students in back-packs and a woman watching a young boy heading off to school.
Ominous-sounding piano music plays throughout. The narrator tells of Allen's opposition, recently reversed, to the federal ban on assault weapons and of his veto of a 1997 bill that would have banned guns from Fairfax County recreation centers. Check the facts for yourself and George Allen's position on guns just make sense for neighborhoods like yours,' the narrator concludes. The new ad on public education, which was bought by the Robb campaign, revisits some themes aired in earlier ads. It notes that Robb raised per-pupil spending during his years as governor, from 1982 to 1986, and that he pushed in the U.S. Senate for more federal spending to renovate schools and reduce class sizes.