DeWine voted against drilling in Anwr, and was famously worried about the caribou or some such nonsense. He has always voted AGAINST gun rights, and he was, iirc, a member of the gang of 14.
DeWine was a rino through and through. His saving grace was a pro-life voting record.
I didn’t remember him being anti-gun, although I certainly remember his embarrassing stances on ANWR and judicial nominations. Still, we couldn’t get a prominent conservative to run against him in the primary, and he won the primary handily, so at that point it was DeWine or Sherrod Brown. I think OH Republicans should have gone for 80% conservative DeWine over 0% conservative Brown.