Crossfire: The War Behind the Closed Doors of the NRA
The 123-year-old group convened its annual board of directors meeting in Ballroom D of the Hilton Hotel. Unbeknownst to the 74 directors, eight officers, and 25-odd NRA staff and VIP members assembled,...
View ArticleGunning for His Enemies: Neal Knox, the Real Power at the NRA, Sees...
An artful conspiracy theorist can easily cultivate believers. One day history will add to the conspiratorial log the name of Neal Knox, one of America's more widely... The post Gunning for His Enemies:...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Unmasking the NRA’s Inner Circle
The NRA operates more like a corporation or politburo than a typical nonprofit or lobbying organization. Its shadowy leaders include the CEO who sells Bushmaster assault rifles used in the Newtown...
View ArticleWhat the Judiciary Committee Should Ask Wayne LaPierre
On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on gun violence featuring testimony from the NRA's Wayne LaPierre, as well as Mark Kelly, the husband of former Representative Gabrielle...
View ArticleThe gun at the heart of the assault weapons debate
The firearm at the heart of the “assault weapons” debate is a Bushmaster AR-15 semi-automatic rifle used last month in the Newtown, Conn. The NRA maintains it is good for hunting and home defense......
View ArticleSenate witness on weapons ban funded by gun lobby
At the same time that the gun lobby is helping to fuel threatening language on the Internet, it is trying to keep secret its financial backing for key witnesses testifying about gun violence before the...
View ArticleGlenn Beck returns to the NRA as group strengthens ties with gun manufacturers
Any remaining doubt about where the gun lobby may be headed after the Newtown Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting seems over now. NRA leaders have endorsed America’s most profitable gunmaking CEO......
View ArticleSequester trumps Sandy Hook: Why gun-control measures may falter
Many Americans expected a real change in the nation’s gun laws after the killing of 20 first-graders in Newtown. But three months later, the outcome looks unclear. No fewer than four pieces of...
View ArticleGun Control and Genocide
Here’s why the NRA is dead wrong about gun control causing genocide. But at least they agree with human rights groups about the horrors of the military dictatorship in Guatemala. What does America’s...
View ArticleGun lobby helps block US from signing UN arms treaty
Senators passed an amendment to block the Obama administration from signing any future U.N. Arms Trade Treaty in a 53-to-46 vote early Saturday morning before dawn. The measure, introduced by Sen....
View ArticleFor NRA’s new president, not his father’s gun club
James W. Porter, Jr. assumed the unpaid, but politically important post of president of the National Rifle Association Monday. While the role puts the Birmingham, Ala., attorney for the first time on a...
View ArticleSix months after Sandy Hook, grassroot groups and the gun debate
After the horror of the Newtown shooting, gun reform advocates expected to finally see a change. Yet Friday marks the six-month anniversary of the tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary School and,...
View ArticleAl Sharpton Targeted by Zombie Gun Product?
“Poor Al he was a Sharp guy,” begins the description of a gun target firm’s newest “Life-Sized Tactical Mannequin Target.” With a dark skin tone and features that seem to resemble the civil rights...
View ArticleChristie moves right on gun issues with veto
Last summer, after Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie showed independence from his own party when he embraced President Barack Obama. The move made Christie a target among his GOP...
View ArticleGun lobby: Who got elected to the NRA board?
This year’s gun lobby board election brought a few surprises, as the National Rifle Association has been trying to keep the results (and the low voter turnout) quiet. George K. Kollitides II is the...
View ArticleThis Is Why the NRA Endures
Earlier this year, long before this week’s latest tragic shooting at the Washington, D.C., Navy Yard, one expert after another predicted the gun lobby’s demise. The horrific massacre of mostly...
View ArticleIn the Line of Fire
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View ArticleOne Year After Sandy Hook, Shooting is Still a Family Sport
What was the mother of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter thinking over a year ago? Trying to find a way to somehow help her clearly troubled youngest son. Gun culture is often associated with...
View ArticleWhy Can’t We Do Anything About Guns?
The only thing stopping real gun reform in the United States is a paranoid fear that some future, tyrannical regime would seize Americans’ guns and impose a totalitarian state. The post Why Can’t We Do...
View ArticleWhy Trump’s Second Amendment Comments are More Dangerous than You Think
Donald Trump seems to be suggesting that some kind of collective act of resistance may be necessary to stop an overreaching government should Clinton win the November election. The post Why Trump’s...
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