topeka republicans circulated a video of the democrats candidate for an open us senate seat in kansas praising strict australian gun laws that she said took them all away to undercut her campaign as a political moderate in whats been an unexpectedly tough redstate race for the gop democrat barbara bolliers spokeswoman accused republican roger marshalls campaign of being duplicitous in highlighting the video bolliers campaign on sunday released longer audio from the same event that included moments in which bollier said she supports the second amendment to the us constitution protecting gun rights and recalled hunting with her father the race appears to be close between marshall a twoterm congressman for western and central kansas and bollier a kansas cityarea state senator who was a lifelong moderate republican before switching parties late in 2018 as the gop fights to keep its 5347 majority in the senate marshall and his supporters have attacked bollier on issues that favour republicans in much of the state including gun rights both a twoandhalfminute video clip provided to the associated press by the marshall campaign and the longer audio from bolliers show that she noted that an adult daughter lives in australia and praised a law there that in the 1990s forced owners of 700000 guns to sell them to the government as this amazing thing they have no guns they dont allow them they just took them all away bollier told her audience and you know what its pretty darn safe bollier also noted that australia imposes licensing and training requirements for gun owners kansas law allows adults to carry weapons openly and it allows them to carry concealed firearms without a permit a policy bollier opposed a legislator when it was enacted in 2015 who thinks you can just go out and have gun seriously bollier said you cant drive a car without training you cant basically do anything with some kind of training this is a lethal weapon as the video clip began circulating bollier tweeted sunday afternoon i do not support gun confiscation i never have i never will republicans have not lost a senate race in kansas since 1932 but bollier has flooded the airwaves with ads that have included testimonials from former gop state lawmakers the race had seen a kansas record of usd 32 million in advertising as of last week with marshall and his allies being outspent according to the media advertising firm advertising analytics bolliers campaign had spent more than usd 9 million with outside groups paying for about 8 million more nearly 90 per cent of the roughly usd 145 million in ads for marshall were covered by outside groups with the marshall campaign spending about usd 15 million according to advertising analytics bolliers remarks on guns first were reported sunday by the washington free beacon conservative site marshalls campaign manager eric pahls texted a 36second excerpt to the associated press he later provided a link to a longer video clip with bolliers