What’s behind the AR-15’s allure, and why we must restrict its sale if we want to limit future mass shootings
The weapon is a modification of the M-16 rifle. Its round is designed to maximize damage to tissue and bone.
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Five Years After Sandy Hook, Major U.S. Papers Still Have a Serious Gun Problem
/in The Progressive/by Frank SmythThe news and opinion section at each The New York Times and The Washington Post are out of synch whether to identify “independent” gun rights scholar David Kopel’s NRA funding.
Swamp Things: Texas Governor Abbott’s Debt to the Gun Lobby
/in The Progressive/by Frank SmythTexas Gov. Gregg Abbott is hardly the only elected official to benefit from the gun lobby. But his story reveals how they hide in the swamp,
Gun Reform Needs Grassroots Activists Not Astroturf
/in The Progressive/by Frank Smythhttp://progressive.org/dispatches/gun-reform-needs-grassroots-activists-not-astroturf/ Talk of gun reform after the Las Vegas country music massacre has faded within just weeks. Representative Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, has made a plea to regulate “bump stocks,” a marginal step, and Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, has introduced gun legislation he predicts will fail. Conservative pundits are declaring gun reform will never […]
“The Price of Freedom”: For the Gun Lobby, Mass Shootings Cannot Be Avoided
/in The Progressive/by Frank Smyth“This is the price of freedom,” former, disgraced Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly wrote Monday on his own website hours after the Las Vegas country music concert shooting.
Four Years after Sandy Hook, the NRA Continues the Arming of America
/in The Progressive/by Frank Smyth“I don’t think it’s quite game over,” said Jonathan E. Lowy, legal director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. “But there are reasons to be concerned.”
The Dangerous Movement Behind Donald Trump
/in franksmyth.com, The Progressive/by Frank SmythIt makes sense to worry that Donald Trump’s recent comments about the Second Amendment could encourage an assassination attempt against Hillary Clinton. But, as a long-time follower of the gun-rights movement, I think Trump’s words mean something else.