Since the defeat of Senator Joe Manchin’s gun control bill in the Senate on April 17, the Senator has avoided a debate with Breitbart News’ AWR Hawkins and is now going after the NRA. During an April 28 appearance on
Ms. Magazine is following Heidi Yewman as she carries a gun for a month to prove how lenient gun laws are. Titled, “My Month With A Gun,” Yewman writes: Following the Newtown massacre in December, the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre, told the
The current issue of the New York Review of Books carries a column in which David Cole argues that the passage of new gun control is difficult because of pro-gun hyperbole and because Americans inexplicably take terrorism more seriously that gun violence.
In April Breitbart News reported that West Virginia 8th grader Jared Marcum was suspended for refusing to take off an NRA t-shirt he wore to school. And details now indicate the 8th grader could face a $500 fine and up to a
Public Policy Polling (PPP) says their recent polls shows support still exists for gun control while the NRA’s “brand just isn’t that strong with average voters.” Regarding gun control, PPP says Democrats want expanded laws by a ratio of 85
Matt Boyle has a video of heartbreaking testimony from a Los Angeles man whose 17-year-old son was murdered on his front lawn by an illegal alien gang member in 2008. The slain youth’s mother was serving in Iraq at the
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough accused the National Rifle Association of intentionally using an overly shaded picture of President Barack Obama…
The new Ethan Hawke thriller The Purge was number one at the box office during its opening weekend, but critics are slamming the film for its thinly veiled commentary against the National Rifle Association and Tea Party groups. The plot
On June 4 the Nation carried a column which invoked Harry Truman’s name as an inspiration for discouraged gun control activists. Yet Truman was both pro-gun and a fan of the National Rifle Association (NRA). The authors of the Nation column urge Democrats to learn to “lose”
In a Gallup Poll released in the heart of the gun control debate last April (after months and month of hysterical coverage), only 4% of Americans saw gun control as a priority. What they were (and are) most concerned about
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell argues the NRA is responsible for the actions of lunatics:
An 8-year old Baltimore elementary school student who was suspended for biting his Pop-Tart into the shape of gun has been awarded an NRA life membership by those who think the school overreached. Park Elementary in Brooklyn Park, Anne Arundel
CBS Baltimore: The eight-year-old boy suspended from school for his pop tart shaped like a gun has been awarded lifetime membership to the NRA.
On June 3, President Barack Obama will sign the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The ATT passed in the U.N. General Assembly by a vote of 153-4 on April 2. This treaty is ostensibly aimed at putting an end to gun
Just over a month after the NRA won the the day when the Senate voted down a proposed gun control package on April 17, the New Republic declares the NRA isn’t as strong as you might think and gun ownership
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg decided to take advantage of a commencement speech he was delivering at Kenyon College in Ohio to push his gun-control agenda. Bloomberg told the students: I believe we will win, sooner or later, because I
In one of the less rational attacks on the NRA to date, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence’s Josh Horwitz used his May 20 column to make the case that the NRA doesn’t understand the Constitution or the man who
Showing his disdain for NRA members, NBC sportscaster Bob Costas mocked those who attended the NRA Convention in Houston earlier this month and said today’s defenders of the Second Amendment were not people the country’s founders had in mind when
84% of all Colorado sheriffs have filed a lawsuit against the new gun law that passed earlier this Spring in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting. The sheriffs are hoping to have the new restrictions invalidated because they believe
(AP) Md. governor signs tougher gun-control billBy BRIAN WITTEAssociated PressANNAPOLIS, Md.Gov. Martin O’Malley has signed a gun-control measure to give Maryland some of the nation’s tightest gun laws and the National Rifle Association says it plans to challenge the law
Another brilliant column from National Review’s Rich Lowry at Politico. Lowry makes the indisputable point that the same media that have spent years attacking the Tea Party, and months savaging the NRA, are now revealing brazen hypocrisy when it comes
Cook County commissioners were asked about Sheriff Tom Dart’s conceal carry proposal to be implemented in case Illinois state lawmakers do not pass their own conceal carry law by the June 9 deadline. Right now, Illinois is the only state that
Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly’s organization Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS) raised $11 million for gun control efforts over the past four months. ARS says the money was raised from 53,000 different donors. What hasn’t been explained is whether the bulk
Although Chicago comes in dead last when jurisdictions are ranked for enforcement of federal gun laws, there’s one thing that leaders in the city are enforcing–a ban on unloaded, historic firearms in Chicago museums. While gangs and other criminals have
On May 7, Piers Morgan was honored in Beverly Hills at an event hosted by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The CNN host was awarded the Sarah Brady Visionary Award and was honored alongside celebrity divorce attorney Laura
