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Rolling Stone commented on the NRA’s relative silence regarding the ban of bump stocks by suggesting the gun rights organization surrendered on the issue in order to shield semiautomatic rifles.

Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. claims the guilty plea of suspected Russian spy Maria Butina and the outcome of the 2018 congressional elections mark the “beginning of the end” for the “gun lobby” in the U.S.

Alleged Russian spy Maria Butina pleaded guilty on Thursday to “conspiring to act as a foreign agent.”

On Monday, comedian Tom Arnold proclaimed his belief that there are only five black members of the NRA, not millions as some claim.

The New York Times reports that Gabby Giffords’ gun control group and Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety spent nearly $40 million “at the state and federal level in the midterms.” The NRA spent $20 million.

Shannon Watts claims the NRA exploited the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack to enrich itself and sell guns.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) says he was being “sarcastic” when he talked of nuking gun owners who refuse to comply with his confiscatory plans banning “assault weapons.”

QuikTrip convenience stores added good guys with guns in Wichita, Kansas, and the results were so good that they are expanding the program to stores in other areas.

San Francisco forensic pathologist Judy Melinek wants to help Nancy Pelosi defeat the NRA and secure more gun control throughout the country. 

The NRA is stressing the import of self-defense preparedness by noting “when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.”

As former Attorney General Jeff Sessions departed the Department of Justice (DOJ), a short list of potential replacements has surfaced in Washington, D.C. 

Incoming House Democrats are promising to push the same gun control that failed to stop the Thousand Oaks, California, massacre.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof blamed the NRA for the Thousand Oaks, California, shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill but ignored the litany of California gun control laws that failed to prevent the attack.

U.S. District Judge Thomas McAvoy ruled Tuesday that the NRA’s suit against New York can continue on First Amendment grounds.

The NRA is urging its six million members and other freedom-loving Americans to vote like their gun rights depend on it–because they do.

The left wing activist group, Dream Defenders, has become the “center of Florida governor’s race,” according to the Associated Press.

Folk rocker Neil Young used the Crosby, Stills, Young, and Nash hit song “Ohio” to rip the NRA and voice support for high school gun control activists.

On Tuesday FedEx announced it is cutting ties with the NRA effective November 4.

Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts criticized the NRA and tweeted for more gun laws before the number of casualties, injuries, and other facts in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting were even known.

Gun control groups are rallying in Nevada as Barack Obama-endorsed Jacky Rosen (D) continues campaigning to restrict gun rights.

During President Donald Trump’s Monday night rally in Houston, he mentioned Beto O’Rourke’s F-rating from the NRA and said the rating means “he wants to take away your guns.”

Sen. Claire McCaskill’s (D-MO) staff already admitted she is open to a semiautomatic rifle ban, and on Thursday night, McCaskill made clear that she, too, is coming after gun shows.

During a Thursday night CNN Town Hall, Beto O’Rourke lauded Texas’s gun heritage before quickly adding that Texas should step up and lead the nation in a gun control conversation.

Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) claims to be pro-Second Amendment but even a cursory glance at his record shows opposition to pro-gun Supreme Court nominees, support for Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s gun control schemes, and a D-rating from the NRA.

Country music star John Rich tweeted support for Republican Marsha Blackburn on Thursday and made clear he was headed to the poll to vote for her.

An undercover project by Project Veritas reveals Sen. Claire McCaskill’s (D-MO) staff praising her ability to hide her gun control support from Missouri voters.

On Friday, the NRA tweeted a message for gun controllers in Congress and elsewhere saying, “We the People will never give up our guns.”

The NRA is lowering Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum’s (D) grade to “Fx” to highlight his to ties to Michael Bloomberg-sponsored gun control groups.

During the October 8, 2018, Senate Debate in Indiana, Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) pushed gun controls that would not have stopped a single mass public attack in recent memory.

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) has an F-rating from the NRA and wants many new gun controls, including a national database of all firearm sales and firearm owners. 

Democrat Phil Bredesen is running for U.S. Senate in Tennessee with a D-rating from the NRA and a campaign built upon pledges of more gun control.

President Donald Trump continues making good on his pledge to use Supreme Court nominations to save the Second Amendment from “people like Hillary Clinton.” 

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) announced her opposition to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) has an F-rating from the NRA and an a penchant for pushing more gun laws as a solution to criminals who already ignore laws on the books.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) used an October 2 Washington Post opinion column to rededicate himself to gun control and list certain types of firearms and accessories that he wants to ban.

Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore tweeted that the Presidential test alert that Americans got on their cell phone Wednesday was a “preview of the state of emergency he is creating to justify the end of democracy.”