Four Years after Sandy Hook, the NRA Continues the Arming of America
“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.”
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Why Can’t We Do Anything About Guns?
/in The Progressive/by Frank SmythThe only thing stopping real gun reform in the United States is a paranoid fear that some future, tyrannical regime would seize Americans’ guns and impose a totalitarian state.
Senate witness on weapons ban funded by gun lobby
/in MSNBC/by Frank SmythAt the same time that the gun lobby is helping to fuel threatening language on the Internet, it is trying to keep secret its financial backing for key witnesses testifying about gun violence before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The gun at the heart of the assault weapons debate
/in MSNBC/by Frank SmythThe rising popularity of the Bushmaster AR-15 has helped make Remington Arms and its North Carolina-based parent company, Freedom Group, one of the nation’s largest and most profitable gun manufacturing groups.
What the Judiciary Committee Should Ask Wayne LaPierre
/in The Progressive/by Frank SmythThe main argument driving the modern NRA is not a pragmatic, but an ideological one.
How the NRA became the fringe
/in MSNBC/by Frank SmythHow far does the NRA’s absolutism go when it comes to the Second Amendment?
EXCLUSIVE: Unmasking the NRA’s Inner Circle
/in Mother Jones/by Frank SmythThe current head of the Nominating Committee, Patricia A. Clark, lives in Newtown, just a couple of miles from the school where 20 young children and six adults were massacred.