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Those watching for former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' first campaign move to support her former district director, endangered Democratic incumbent Rep. Ron Barber, need wait no longer.

Today Giffords made her inaugural step into the 2014 midterm election race in Arizona's second district with a volley to Barber on a hot-button issue both Tucson legislators have unfortunately experienced first-hand: gun violence.

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In a press release Wednesday, Giffords' and husband Mark Kelly's PAC Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS), a non-profit focused on reducing gun violence and promoting responsible firearm ownership, announced the roll-out of two new television ads that will run in Arizona's second district.

The PAC was launched by the pair on the second anniversary of the deadly shooting - which nearly took her life - during a Congress on Your Corner event held by the former congresswoman outside a Tucson Safeway Jan. 8, 2011. Six were killed and 18 injured, including both the former congresswoman and Barber, who both sustained bullet wounds. Giffords was shot in the head, causing her serious brain damage.

The two television ads, "Nearly Everyone" and "Personal," don't so much tout Barber for his congressional record on gun violence prevention as strike his freshly anointed two-time Republican opponent, former Air Force Colonel Martha McSally, for her own views on gun control.

McSally, who lost her bid for the seat to Barber in 2012 by fewer than 2,500 votes, was declared the second district's Republican nominee in last Tuesday's state primary.

The 30-second ads blast McSally for objecting to close the loophole that allows firearms to be purchased without a background check at gun shows and online. The gun control initiative was blocked by the Senate in April of 2013.

"Ron Barber supports the same commonsense, bipartisan solutions that Southern Arizona supports - it's too bad that Martha McSally takes the side of lobbyists and Republicans in Congress instead of doing what's best for Southern Arizona families," Barber campaign spokeswoman Ashley Nash-Hahn told ABC News.

The McSally campaign did not seem to immediately respond to the ads with words of defense or counter-attack.

"While we may have legitimate differences of opinion about how to best reduce violence and keep Arizonans safe, we all can agree that we need to do more to prevent tragedies in our communities," Patrick Ptak, spokesman for the McSally campaign, told ABC News.

The political ad buys not only mark Giffords' first public step behind Barber's 2014 House bid, but they're also the first ads released by the PAC in the 2014 cycle. ARS said in a statement that they will continue producing 2014 ads for other races heading into November.

Giffords did previously campaign for Barber - whom she handpicked as her successor upon her decision to retire in 2012 to focus on her recovery - both in the special election for her seat that June, then again less than six months later in the November general election.

However, neither she nor Kelly appears in the new commercials.