Donald Trump kicked off his appearance at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention on Friday by awkwardly reading the names of the 21 people slaughtered with an AR-15-style rifle in Uvalde a few days earlier. The NRA played a recording of a bell clanging as the former president strained to …
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A country music concert slated for this weekend’s NRA Convention in Houston just lost another performer. Larry Gatlin, a member of the country trio the Gatlin Brothers, has dropped out of the lineup. The 74-year-old vocalist and songwriter behind Gatlin Brothers hits like “All the Gold in California” and “Houston …
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The embattled National Rifle Association is seeking an exit from its financial and legal woes by declaring bankruptcy, with a plan to reorganize in the state of Texas. In a statement to reporters on Friday, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre said the NRA had reached a “transformational moment” and that a …
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An email exchange between an NRA official and a man who has called the Sandy Hook massacre “the biggest government illusion that’s ever been pulled off” is raising questions about whether the gun lobby encourages conspiracy theorists. The emails — sent in the immediate aftermath of the 2018 school massacre …
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Two years ago, as a college freshman, country singer-songwriter Liddy Clark began writing papers on the relationship between country music and the NRA. In one essay, she pondered what it might take for country music to take a stance that strayed from the “pro-Second Amendment, ‘don’t take my guns away’ …
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