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Video: Introduction to Rick Perry's NRA Speech

Just like a baseball player's "walk-up" song, Gov. Rick Perry emerged from the dugout at the National Rifle Association's 2013 annual meeting after this video of him laying waste to a perfectly good farm egg and some other targets.

by Justin Dehn

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Just like a baseball player's "walk-up" song, Gov. Rick Perry emerged from the dugout at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting after this video of him laying waste to perfectly good farm egg he shot this week at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Shield Tactical.

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