He Hates These Guns...Until they Votes Get Him Some Votes.

From The Progress Report - American Progress Action Fund:

In 1999, then-Gov. George W. Bush supported the ban on assault weapons, saying "it makes no sense for assault weapons to be around our society." In 2003, then-White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said that Bush not only "supports the reauthorization of the current assault weapons ban" but would "work with Congress" to make sure it remained the law.

Standing firm on the issues....err, i mean Polls.