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.
One avenue of investigation is already closed off to forensic officials working the Boston Marathon bombing case due to efforts dating back decades by the National Rifle Association and gun manufacturers.
The gun lobby-backed Inhofe amendment requires the executive branch “to uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.
Here’s why the NRA is dead wrong about gun control causing genocide. But at least even their paid scholars agree with human rights groups about the horrors of the military dictatorship in Guatemala.
Due largely to the National Rifle Association’s efforts, few states have laws allowing authorities to confiscate firearms owned by individuals under a restraining order for domestic abuse, even when the order is permanent.
