Like pretty much every Democrat, there was a time when New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand loved to tell people how she was pro-Second Amendment and hawkish on immigration. You've heard most of her old lines from any one of a hundred leftists - all of which you probably knew were lying. She prattled on about her family's history of hunting, yakked about how we needed a stronger border, and generally parroted the conservative-lite line.
You heard some version of this from Obama, Kerry, Gore, Clinton, and a thousand other left-wing Senators and Representatives.