Tim Walz brought his own gun, a beretta, to hunt for pheasants, he tells me. “ I bought it when I was we shooting a lot of trap,” the Minnesota governor said. pic.twitter.com/K1zGkWYEPY

Walz has hunted pheasants every season as governor, but the crowd at this year’s safety briefing was much more crowded than usual because of his Democratic vice presidential candidacy. Secret Service agents and a small media contingent surrounded the governor in a sea of orange before he took his Beretta A400 into the field.