Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet is in the political crosshairs in a new ad from the NRA that urges the Democrat from Denver to support Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, or risk alienating gun-rights voters.

The NRA moves the target around quite a bit when it comes to Supreme Court nominees and gun rights, however.

The venerable gun-rights group of enormous American influence is spending more $1 million to run ads against senators it thinks it can pressure into supporting Gorsuch.

“Sen. Bennet should oppose Chuck Schumer’s filibuster efforts and vote to confirm Judge Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court,”, NRA executive director Chris W. Cox said in a press release Monday afternoon.

That was roughly three and a half hours after Bennet had announced, “I will oppose efforts to filibuster the nomination.”

I asked NRA spokeswoman Catherine Mortensen to clarify.

“We are aware that Sen. Bennet announced today he will NOT participate in the Chuck Schumer filibuster,” she replied in an e-mail. “But we are still urging our members and supports (sic) in Colorado to call and email Sen. Bennet to urge him to support Gorsuch for the Supreme Court.”

Your friends at Colorado Politics say it’s a real long shot that Bennet won’t. Some of the state’s top Democrats and some of Bennet’s closest political allies are urging him to stand with his fellow Coloradan.

And when Bennet introduced Gorsuch to the Judiciary Committee two weeks ago, he sounded like he was giving a eulogy for a friend.

You might have saved a few bucks on this one, NRA.

Bennet is conditionally anti-gun. He has a C+ rating with the NRA, meaning his record is mixed. For instance, he is sponsoring a bill to use a portion of the wholesalers’ tax on guns and ammo to help finance more gun ranges, which is supported by the NRA.

Mortensen said Bennet’s leadership on that bill “is not relevant to the Gorsuch vote,” which carries more weight.

The ad, which began running on Colorado TV stations Monday, sounds like a campaign season broadside (albeit five years before Bennet is up for re-election):

ANNOUNCER: Michael Bennet talks a good game on gun rights.

BENNET:  I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment.

ANNOUNCER: But Bennet voted to put anti-gun Supreme Court justices on the court, not once, but twice. Now Senator Bennet has another chance and your freedom is on the line.

It’s true Bennet voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor in 2009, along with every other Democrat and nine Republicans.

He also voted for Elana Kagan in 2010. along with five Republicans that included Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Dick Lugar of Indiana.

“Lindsey Graham is committed to defending our right to keep and bear arms from President Obama and elitist billionaires like Michael Bloomberg who will stop at nothing to take away our freedoms,” Cox said in a press release two years ago.

In fact, nine senators with an A rating from the NRA at the time voted to confirm Kagan.

The NRA went after Lugar in 2012 precisely over Sotomayor and Kagan, however. Lugar lost the primary to Richard Mourdock, who lost the Republican seat in Congress in the general election to Democrat Joe Donnelly, a Democrat endorsed by the NRA.

The ad pulls a clip from a 9News debate last fall, when Bennet said he supports the Second Amendment, and goes on to say “no amendment is absolute,” and reiterated his support for background checks for gun purchases.

The NRA left its best ammo in the box: Bennet was one of the 30 senators who filibustered for tougher gun laws last year.