This year’s National Rifle Association board election brought a few surprises. The CEO of the company that makes the Bushmaster AR-15 semi-automatic rifle that killed first graders at Sandy Hook Elementary lost.
The New Jersey governor’s veto of new gun control legislation backtracked on his previous record that included his embrace of then-President Barack Obama.
Since the first inauguration of President George W. Bush–the ATF provided no national data on “crime guns.” But that changed after the Sandy Hook tragedy and the second inauguration of President Barack Obama.
After the horror of the Newtown shooting, gun reform advocates expected to finally see a change. Yet six months later nothing had changed.
Anydoubt about where the gun lobby may be headed after the Sandy Hook school shooting ended fast, after NRA leaders endorsed the CEO of the firm that made the gun used to kill children.
The National Rifle Association’s new president is James W. Porter II from Alabama. I watched him ten years before behind the closed door of an NRA board meeting. He said, “When you open my veins, NRA blood runs out.”
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.
