North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, a Republican, apologized Monday night after an audio recording from this weekend revealed he had privately joked about a gun magazine not having a “bullseye” over a picture of Hillary Clinton’s face.

The comments came near the end of a meeting with GOP volunteers on Saturday in Mooresville, N.C., after Burr noticed a man in the room wearing a hat with the logo of the National Rifle Association (NRA). It is unclear whether Burr was aware that he was being recorded during the meeting.

“Nothing made me feel any better than when I walked into a gun shop, I think yesterday in Oxford, and there was copy of ‘Rifleman’ on the counter, it’s got a picture of Hillary Clinton on the front of it,” Burr said, referring to the NRA’s official magazine. “I was a little bit shocked at that -- it didn’t have a bullseye on it.”

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