Perhaps the most important perspective to be put on the turmoil within the National Rifle Association that led to the departure of Oliver North as the organization’s president came from an unexpected source: the head of a billionaire-backed gun prohibition group. Quoted by CNBC, John Feinblatt, president of the Michael Bloomberg-supported Everytown for Gun Safety, […]
Trump Withdraws from Arms Treaty as NRA Members Cheer
President Donald Trump signed an order to stop the ratification process on a proposed global arms trade treaty that had been negotiated during the Obama administration. (Screen snip, YouTube, Global News) President Donald Trump’s public signing of withdrawal from a global arms treaty immediately infuriated the Left, while an audience of about 15,000 National Rifle […]
As NRA Convenes in Indianapolis, Who Are the Real ‘Extremists?’
As the 148th annual National Rifle Association members’ meetings and exhibits open Friday in Indianapolis, gun prohibitionists will show up to protest the convention, and especially the appearances by the President and Vice President of the United States. In an Op-Ed published Friday by the Indianapolis Star Tribune, Shannon Watts, founder of the anti-gun-rights Moms […]
Swift Action to Protect WA Gun Owner ID; Legislation, Lawsuit Filed
Washington State lawmakers and a national gun rights organization have moved swiftly to prevent disclosure of the identities of gun owners who turned in bump stocks in exchange for $150 compensation from the state in an attempt to thwart a Public Records Act (PRA) request for the information from someone apparently using a fake name. […]
‘Red Flag’ Laws Raise Constitutional Issues
At the state capitol in Augusta Monday, Maine lawmakers got an earful from both sides in a hotly-debated push to adopt a so-called “red flag” law, the generic term for legislation that would legalized Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPO) that allow people deemed to be “at risk” to have their firearms seized by police. The […]
It’s Open Season on NRA as 148th Annual Members Meeting Looms
As though it were deliberately timed, with the approach of the annual National Rifle Association’s convention—this coming weekend in Indianapolis for its 148th gathering—editorial columns and news stories are filling up with “all things gun.” An editorial in the Aurora, Colorado Sentinel complained that 20 years after the Columbine High School tragedy, “nothing” had been […]
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