US gun safety group’s chilling new ad calls for assault weapons ban

Brady ad features US navy veteran's shocking account of Vietnam gunfire and comes on heels of several devastating mass shootings

A gun safety group has created a provocative new ad campaign calling for the renewal of a federal assault weapons ban, in the wake of several devastating mass shootings across the US that involved the use of military-style rifles.

The ad, released on Thursday by the gun safety group Brady and shared exclusively with the Guardian, features a US navy veteran of the Vietnam war reading a chilling account of coming under gunfire and being struck by a bullet.