As he accepted the GOP’s vice presidential nomination on Wednesday, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) fondly recalled finding 19 loaded firearms stashed in apparently unsecured locations around his grandmother’s home after she died.
The Republican National Convention crowd erupted in applause as Vance told the story, days after a shooter tried to assassinate the party’s presidential nominee, Donald Trump, killing a bystander and seriously injuring two others.
“My mamaw died shortly before I left for Iraq in 2005, and when we went through her things, we found 19 loaded handguns,” said Vance, a former Marine, drawing laughs and cheers from the audience.
“The thing is, they were stashed all over her house — under her bed, in her closet, in the silverware drawer,” he continued. “And we wondered what was going on, and it occurred to us that towards the end of her life, mamaw couldn’t get around so well.
“And so this frail old woman made sure that no matter where she was, she…