Longtime National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre has announced that he will resign from the organization days before the organization is scheduled to stand trial on civil corruption charges in New York. “The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) announced today that Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre announced he is …
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This story was published in partnership withThe Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to itsnewsletters While the public knows the National Rifle Association chiefly as a lobbying and campaign juggernaut, the Internal Revenue Service classifies the group as a “social welfare organization” whose firearms training, recreational shooting, and …
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A WEEK AFTER THE MASSACRE in Lewiston, Maine, left 18 dead, 13 wounded, and a swath of New England terrorized and on lockdown, the gun industry was thinking about its bottom line. During a Nov. 1 quarterly-earnings call, Ruger CEO Christopher Killoy touted the company’s profits, and the sales boost …
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M ary Joyce’s daughter witnessed the unspeakable. “The day after the children were murdered at the school, grief therapists passed out ‘Feelings Cards‘ with faces on them to help the children identify what they were feeling,” she recalled. “My nine-year-old daughter, Monroe, who saw the shooter, the barrel of the …
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Mike Pence, who was born in Indiana, represented Indiana in Congress, and served as the governor of Indiana, spoke on Friday at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention, which is taking place in Indiana. He was booed loudly. “I love you too,” Pence said after the not-so-warm welcome. Pence is …
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Former President Donald Trump said that if re-elected, he would use the government to investigate and potentially halt transgender health care during a National Rifle Association (NRA) speech on Friday. “Upon my inauguration, I will direct the FDA to convene an independent outside panel to investigate whether transgender hormone treatments …
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On Monday, a shooter killed five people with an AR-15 style rifle in a Louisville, Kentucky, bank. On Friday, Donald Trump and other Republican leaders will take the stage at a National Rifle Association leadership forum in Indiana, where they are likely to tout the role of guns in American …
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When a group of 20 senators announced a framework of “commonsense” gun reforms on Sunday evening, the most surprising thing about it was that it came into existence at all. A decade of demands for stricter gun laws in the wake of tragedies like those in Buffalo, New York, and …
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Stay cool. Run out the clock. Scare some gun nuts while you can. But don’t worry: this moment will be over soon. That’s the message the Republican Party, Donald Trump, and conservative leaders rapidly coalesced around after a series of mass shootings in recent weeks, including at one at a …
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HOUSTON—The biggest names of the National Rifle Association’s annual gun show wouldn’t take the stage until mid-afternoon on Friday. But a young man with a vintage Make America Great hat, and a couple wearing matching “ULTRA MAGA” shirts, began camping out in the third-floor hallway of the convention center not …
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