The Democratic National Convention made a key theme of its theatrical presentation the party’s opposition to the overwhelming electoral might of the National Rifle Association.

Hillary Clinton worked to extend the mythology Sunday by indicating it is her position that is common sense during an interview on “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace.

Bloomberg stacked up $50 million against conservative candidates; the NRA made only $5.5 million in independent expenditures to influence election outcomes in 2014.

“I’m not looking to repeal the Second Amendment. I’m not looking to take people’s guns away,” Clinton told Wallace, while insisting that she is “looking for more support for the reasonable efforts that need to be undertaken to keep guns out of the wrong hands.”

“The vast majority of Americans, including gun owners, support the kind of commonsense reforms that I’m proposing,” Clinton said.

Clinton was building on the Democratic strategy of making the NRA into an electoral boogeyman — allegedly preventing commonsense gun control by buying members of Congress and presidential candidates.

“If we’re serious about keeping our country safe, we also can’t afford to have a president who’s in the pocket of the gun lobby,” Clinton said during her speech to the DNC Thursday.

“We should be working with responsible gun owners to pass commonsense reforms and keep guns out of the hands of criminals, terrorists, and all others who would do us harm,” she also said.

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But Clinton and her other liberal cronies seemed to be grossly overlooking one key fact: The gun control lobby has spent more money than the NRA attempting to influence election outcomes in recent cycles — way more.

In 2014, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg funneled $50 million into projects to defeat defenders of the Second Amendment.

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Bloomberg’s campaign, called “Everytown for Gun Safety,” was geared toward restructuring other gun control groups such as “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” and “Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.”

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“There is no question that more needs to be done to tackle this deadly problem, and that’s why more than 1.5 million Americans, nearly 1,000 mayors and moms in all 50 states have already come together to fight for commonsense reform that will respect rights and save lives,” Bloomberg said in a statement at the time. “This new organization will bring more people into the fight against gun violence, which affects every town in America.”

But while Bloomberg alone stacked $50 million up against conservative candidates, the NRA made only $5.5 million in independent expenditures to influence election outcomes in 2014.

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Indeed, even up against the vast sums of cash devoted to defeating proponents of the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, conservatives largely prevailed and Republicans retook control of the U.S. Senate — despite the disparity in spending.

But the Clinton campaign and its allies will continue to prop up the NRA as a gun violence straw man, alleging the organization that largely derives any influence it has from its law-abiding members, is a big, bad boogeyman Hillary Clinton is up against.