Scarborough submitted two versions of the same questionnaire in 1994 because the first was apparently misplaced. TheDC has obtained both.

“The NRA must elect & support candidates who will view the gun rights issue as a constitutional battle,” Scarborough wrote on a 1994 questionnaire. “The founding fathers did not give us the 2nd Amendment to protect our rights to shoot ducks. Our constitutional right to bear arms is so we may protect our family in the manner we choose. No compromise!”

The year of his first round of questionnaires, 1994, was the same year California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. Then-President Bill Clinton would sign that legislation into law on September 13, 1994, creating a nationwide ban that would last for a decade on manufacturing military-looking firearms.

But just weeks before, Scarborough told the NRA that his personal definition of an “assault weapon” was “anything the government would deny the people from protecting themselves against the government” and “anything the government would fear the people could use to protect their rights.”