On September 16, Breitbart News reported on an ad in which Senator Roy Blunt’s (R-MO) Democratic challenger, Jason Kander, assembled an AR-15 while blindfolded, then called for more gun control.
On September 21, the editorial board of Bloomberg View claimed that the example of Jason Falconer — the armed man who shot and killed the Minnesota mall mass stabber — does not prove the NRA’s claim that “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.”
An NRA ad released on September 20 highlights the trepidation of a home invasion and warns women not to let Hillary Clinton leave them with only a phone for self-defense.
During a September 16 speech in Miami, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sent the media into a tailspin by demanding Hillary Clinton lead by example on gun control and disarm her bodyguards.
On September 14 Missouri lawmakers in the House and Senate overrode Governor Jay Nixon’s (D) veto of SB 656, thereby recognizing the Second Amendment as the only carry permit law-abiding Missourians need.
Donald Trump promised that he will work with the NRA to “save the Second Amendment,” at a Sept. 14 campaign rally in Canton, Ohio.
Gun-controlled Australia is witnessing gun crime at such high levels that state and federal officials are pushing new controls that will do everything from enact a second national gun buyback to increase sentences for gun crime and illegal gun possession.
As senior citizens continue to be a driving force behind record firearm sales, one gun-toting senior says, “My friends like to knit, I like to shoot.”
Breitbart News highlighted Antonia Okafor’s National Rifle Association (NRA) ad in which she stressed the pressure that she, as a young black woman, had to overcome in choosing to arm herself for self-defense and take her stand as part of “freedom’s safest place.” Okafor has elaborated by equating gun ownership with feminism.
On August 28, Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts reacted to NRA criticism of Hillary Clinton’s gun control plans by suggesting the NRA’s fight against gun control is an “attack on Americans.”
An crowd of more than three hundred grassroots activists pushed into a church in Lewis Center, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday as organizers unveiled a get-out-the-vote plan to win the swing state for Donald Trump.
According to Sunshine State News, the NRA was running ads for Trump before Trump was running ads for himself. Their total spending for such ads is expected to hit approximately $8 million.
Tea Party for Trump is launching a get-out-the-vote partnership with the National Rifle Association in Ohio and several other key states around the country, “including Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida,” the group announced in a statement on Tuesday.
Speaking at the second Conference of States Parties of the Arms Trade Treaty in Geneva, Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu blamed Mexico’s rampant gun crime on the U.S. laws and, in particular, cited the absence of a ban on “assault weapons.”
During an August 19 campaign stop in North Carolina, Donald Trump shot an M4 rifle with Iredell County Sheriff Darren Campbell.
A recent poll from Rasmussen Reports shows the NRA’s favorable rating is 54% and a Gallup poll shows that Hillary Clinton’s favorable rating is 41%.
Actor Tom Arnold penned an open letter on Thursday contended that Americans who believe gun ownership is a God-given right are “insane” and “unfit” to own guns.
An Alaska fishing guide shot and killed a grizzly bear as it charged a female client and her husband, both of whom planned to fish a stream where grizzlies are not common.
Democrat vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine claims he never loses to the NRA, but he has.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich observes that the alliance between the National Rifle Association (NRA) and Donald Trump is eroding the Democrats’ hold on rural America.
Democrats are claiming that Donald Trump’s comments about “2nd Amendment people” stopping Hillary Clinton’s gun-grabbing agenda was somehow a violent threat. Shills for Hillary like Elizabeth Warren are even calling it a “death threat.”
On August 9 the Hillary Clinton campaign spun Donald Trump’s Second Amendment comments as a threat and Clinton surrogates quickly pounced, calling for a Secret Service investigation.
In an NRA commercial focused on the importance of being able to defend yourself, rape survivor Kimberly Corban warns women not be tricked into allowing Hillary Clinton to take away their right to self-defense.
The emergence of women as a gun-owning demographic to be reckoned with became evident in 2011 and 2012. The NRA reports a Gallup Poll showing a 23 percent jump in female firearms ownership between 2005 and 2011, and this poll is complimented by National Shooting Sports Foundation research showing that among those female gun owners, the largest percentage own more than one gun.
During his July 28 speech to the DNC, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) talked about aspects of his state’s 2013 SAFE Act and said, “We fought the NRA and we won.”
An Ohio coalition of Tea Party and liberty groups has announced an alliance with gun-rights supporters to help win the critical swing state for Donald Trump.
Thomas Salbey, a Munich attack witness, says he would “have shot [gunman David Sonboly] in the head” if he had a gun.
During her July 25 speech at the Democrat National Convention, Michelle Obama talked about moving into the White House and watching “big men with guns” take their daughters to school.
Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine received an “F” from the NRA in 2012 and, as Governor of Virginia, vetoed a bill that would have allowed Virginians to keep a gun in their cars for self-defense
The bill, AB 857, requires individuals to apply for a serial number from the government before constructing a homemade gun, and outlaws the sale of such guns.
During his July 21 speech at the Republican National Convention, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reasserted his commitment to protect the Second Amendment while warning that Hillary Clinton would “abolish” it.
Mike Pence not only brings a strong gun rights record to the Republican ticket, but also a real history of warring against gun control while a U.S. Representative and, thereafter, the Governor of Indiana.
On two days–July 23-24–persons who join or renew their membership while in the store will be given a gift card they can use make purchases in Bass Pro. There will be an NRA representative in every store and Bass Pro is calling the event, “NRA Membership Drive.”
Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS), and others argue that the favorable of the NRA is too great, and success on gun control cannot be achieved by targeting them by name.
During the second day of the Republican National Convention, the NRA-ILA’s Chris Cox explained that this election is about securing the Second Amendment by keeping Hillary Clinton away from the Supreme Court. In no uncertain terms, he made clear that her machinations include reversing District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and gutting the Second Amendment, yet he assured the audience that there is a sure preventative to such travesty–and that preventative is Donald Trump.
California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom responded Sunday to the shooting deaths of three Baton Rouge police officers by blaming “the firearms industry, its spokespeople at the National Rifle Association, and their paid subsidiaries.”
On July 13 NY Mag suggested the NRA’s promotion of armed self-defense for women actually endangers women.
In the latest NRA ad, black millennial Antonia Okafor says she did not let name-calling–including being called “an uncle Tom”–prevent her from getting a gun for self-defense.
On July 11, The Nation claimed that attacker Micah Xavier Johnson was simply fighting tyranny for the NRA when he opened fire on Dallas police officers during a Black Lives Matter rally.
DeadState.org gleefully seized on his statement in a piece titled, “Dallas police chief slams NRA’s ‘Good Guy With a Gun’ Theory.”
