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 ArticleBehind the Badge: Meet the GOP’s Law Enforcement Front Group
Kirk Watson cannot forget the first time he saw it. Watson, a former Austin mayor, was running as the Democratic nominee for state attorney general. Only about 10 days remained before the 2002 November...
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 ArticleHow the NRA became the fringe
Today's NRA's interpretation of the Second Amendment seems to put it to the right of not only most Americans, including most gun owners, but also the Roberts Supreme Court and even Justice Antonin...
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 ArticleIntroducing the NRA kingmakers
The rites of spring rarely change. Every year, even before the season opens for wild turkey shooting, hunters begin sighting-in their shotguns in the field. And just like the beginning of the hunting...
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 ArticleWhy it’s so hard to keep guns out of abusive households
Richard D’Alauro is the National Rifle Association’s field representative in New York City and surrounding suburbs, and he kept dozens of different firearms of all kinds at his Long Island home. But in...
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 ArticleHow the gun lobby has already blocked Boston’s bombing investigators
One avenue of investigation is already closed off to forensic officials working the Boston Marathon bombing case due to efforts dating back decades by the National Rifle Association and gun...
View ArticleFresh off victory, NRA looks toward 2014
Fresh from its biggest legislative victory in years, the gun lobby is gearing up for its next project: backing their congressional champions in the 2014 midterm elections. But this time the landscape...
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 ArticleWas that gun used in a crime? Now you can find out
On Sunday in New Orleans, Laderika Smith, 28, returned from the store to find her five-year-old daughter bloodied and lying on the bedroom floor with a gunshot wound to her head. The girl soon died....
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...
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