April 1, 2013
By Chris W. Cox, NRA-ILA Executive Director
As winter ends, the NRA springs into action against attacks on the Second Amendment.
Throughout the 2012 elections, the NRA warned gun owners...
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April 1, 2013
By Wayne LaPierre, NRA Executive Vice President
You and your freedom are in danger of being buried by a blizzard of lies. President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, the gun-ban...
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April 1, 2013
Since the December murders in Newtown, Conn., state houses and the U.S. Congress have been awash in gun control proposals from those seeking to exploit the tragedy. In stark contrast to this anti-gun hysteria are the sober actions taken by numerous sheriffs and sheriffs’ associations across the country that have made it clear they will oppose attacks on their constituents’ rights.
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March 29, 2013
This week's outrage comes to us from anti-gun, anti-freedom New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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March 22, 2013
On March 18, the UN convened the second “final” round of the UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty that is set to last until March 28. Using the draft treaty made available during the final days of the previous “final” conference in July as a starting point, delegates continue to ignore some of the major issues threatening the rights of civilian gun owners worldwide.
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March 22, 2013
This week's outrage comes to us from New Jersey, where a father's Facebook photo post of his son holding his birthday present--a .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle--resulted in a visit and attempted home search by police and the New Jersey Department of Youth and Family Services.
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March 15, 2013
Whenever NRA reviews other organizations' surveys or polls that claim to represent the views of NRA members, we do so with a suspicious eye. Our membership rolls are not released, so it's impossible for organizations that have no access to the NRA's membership list, to "test the pulse" of NRA members as effectively as NRA can.
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March 15, 2013
At no time in recent history has it been more important for NRA members and Second Amendment supporters to be effective activists in our campaign to protect and preserve our Second Amendment rights. Our freedom is under attack like never before, on multiple fronts!
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March 15, 2013
The 16th Annual Firearms Law Seminar will be held on Friday, May 3,, 2013, as part of NRA's Annual Meetings.
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March 8, 2013
As we reported last week (More (Bad) Advice from Biden), Vice-President Joe Biden has a knack for putting his foot in his mouth--repeatedly. Biden's latest "advice" came in an interview with Field and Stream, in which Biden said to people wanting to protect their homes, "…you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.”
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March 8, 2013
According to a recent Washington Examiner article, a total of 14 sheriffs' associations now oppose President Obama's proposed gun control measures.
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March 8, 2013
Just as NRA warned would happen, following last November's presidential election, the Obama administration immediately moved forward with its plans to support a United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. On Wednesday November 7, the U.S. Mission to the U.N. made clear its support for renewed ATT negotiations, casting a vote in favor of a resolution that calls for a "Final United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty" to be held in New York City from March 18-28.
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March 8, 2013
The Transportation Security Administration has made a number of changes to the list of items allowed to be included in carry-on baggage. Of main interest to gun owners is that riflescopes are now specifically allowed.
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March 8, 2013
In January, President Obama “issued a presidential memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other scientific agencies to research the causes and prevention of gun violence--and he called on Congress to provide $10 million to pay for it.” Federal law currently prohibits the CDC from using the taxpayers’ money to pay anti-gun researchers to conduct studies that advocate gun control.
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March 8, 2013
We regularly report on outrageous cases involving over-zealous school officials enforcing one-size-fits-all, zero-common sense, "zero-tolerance" rules.
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March 1, 2013
As we recently reported, Vice-President Joe Biden has a knack for putting his foot in his mouth. Well, someone better find Biden a chair, because he’s now put his other foot in his mouth too.
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March 1, 2013
The new watchword for the firearm-confiscation movement in America is “national conversation”—a term that takes on ominous meaning for millions of peaceable, innocent gun owners, especially in light of President Barack Obama’s threat to institute new, draconian gun bans and universal gun-owner registration schemes.
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March 1, 2013
We will have to change,” President Obama said recently, referring to Americans needing to do everything possible to ensure that murders like those at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., are never repeated elsewhere. Of course, the National Rifle Association strongly agrees, and has introduced the nra National School Shield Program in order to develop very specific ideas for how to stop the next evildoer who attempts to murder children at school.
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March 1, 2013
The most extreme national gun ban in American history is now one of President Obama’s top priorities in Congress. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s gun-ban bill would outlaw hundreds of firearm models, including many first manufactured in the 1940s or earlier. Her bill would also prohibit standard capacity magazines for most semi-auto handguns and many rifles. Similar bills are being introduced in state legislatures all over the nation.
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March 1, 2013
As early as the December 2011 issue of America’s 1st Freedom, in a feature entitled “Obama’s Secret Plan to Destroy the Second Amendment by 2016,” NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre was shouting from the proverbial rooftops, warning gun owners of an “all-out war on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.” He told what the Obama administration planned to unleash should it emerge victorious from the 2012 presidential election and retain the White House.
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March 1, 2013
As Gun-Ban Forces Launch Attacks, Court Action Paves the Way for Right to Carry. Since mid-December, gun owners have joined in the nation’s grief over the acts of a madman in Newtown, Conn. While the media have focused heavily on the Obama administration’s push for new restrictions on gun owners’ rights, far less attention has been paid to major court actions the week before the horrific crimes; those court decisions and arguments may soon let law-abiding residents of several states protect themselves more effectively from attacks outside their homes.
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March 1, 2013
You know you're on the right side of an issue when those on the other side want their extreme proposals rushed into law before the American people and their elected representatives have had a chance to give them careful thought.
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March 1, 2013
After a series of meetings with the nra and other organizations representing hunters, members of the firearm and ammunition industry, law enforcement groups and gun control groups, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) is considering what guidelines it can use to interpret the “sporting purposes” exemption to the federal “armor piercing ammunition” law.
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March 1, 2013
As attacks on our Second Amendment rights increase, there is a predictable uptick in the number of internet rumors concerning firearms and ammunition.
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February 22, 2013
As often as he puts his foot in his mouth, it's a wonder Vice-President Joe Biden can walk. The often irascible and unpredictable Biden said this week, in an online Facebook town hall "chat" sponsored by Parents Magazine, that women who have to protect their homes and families from intruders should just walk outside and fire two blasts from a double barreled shotgun.
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February 22, 2013
The term "gun buyback" is a misnomer, in that a government cannot buy back something that it never owned in the first place. However, in Santa Fe, N.M., organizers of a city-sponsored event billed as a gun "buyback" even managed to get the "buy" part wrong, and violated the privacy of the participants in the process.
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February 8, 2013
Arm yourself with the facts at the excellent, new, online, gun-rights, resource site "Firearms, Violence, and the Second Amendment" that is now available from the Independent Institute.
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February 8, 2013
This week's outrage comes to us courtesy of the anti-gun Reverend Jesse Jackson. Rev. Jackson is not in the news as much now as he once was. When you do hear from him, though, his comments are still laced with his usual dose of hyperbole.
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February 1, 2013
The battle to save our Second Amendment freedoms is raging right now.
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February 1, 2013
After President Lyndon Johnson signed the Gun Control Act of 1968, many anti-gun politicians looked forward to the day when they could completely ban the sale and ownership of firearms and perhaps even confiscate those already in private hands.
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February 1, 2013
On January 30, the U.S. Senate Judiciary committee held a hearing entitled, "What Should America Do About Gun Violence?" It should have been called, "How Do We Attack Second Amendment Rights?"
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February 1, 2013
While banning guns and magazines is being actively promoted by the anti-gunners (as evidenced by introduction of Sen. Feinstein's S. 150), the criminalization of private firearm transfers is the centerpiece of their anti-Second Amendment efforts. This is part of a strategy to chip away at our Second Amendment rights under the guise of being "reasonable."
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February 1, 2013
The following is the transcript of the speech Wayne LaPierre gave on December 21, 2012, to announce the NRA’s plans to institute a new model program that schools across the country may adopt to protect our most precious resource, our children.
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February 1, 2013
With all of the focus on the election that’s just passed, it’s easy to lose sight of the important battles that lie ahead for gun owners in state legislatures across the country. Here’s a preview of some of the significant legislation gun owners should look forward to supporting in 2013, along with some of the worst legislation that we’ll need your help to fight in the coming year.
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February 1, 2013
The morning after the election, President Barack Obama's U.S. Mission to the United Nations voted to recommence negotiations on an international Arms Trade Treaty, known as the ATT. This past summer ATT negotiations collapsed, in part due to the U.S. delegation’s concern that a major U.S. anti-gun treaty could harm Obama's re-election chances.
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February 1, 2013
Before I tell you how the NRA and our members are going to Stand And Fight politically and in the courts, let’s acknowledge that all over this country, tens of millions of Americans are already preparing to Stand And Fight to protect their families and homes.
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February 1, 2013
It's no secret how the 2012 election turned out. There was no cause for celebration when Barack Obama won re-election. There were no champagne corks popping at the NRA when the results of key Senate races started coming in. But Election Day was not the Second Amendment disaster that gun-ban groups desperately want the public to believe it was.
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February 1, 2013
Chicago and some of its suburbs kept handgun bans on their books for nearly 30 years before the Supreme Court struck the laws down in its 2010 decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago. Now, the city and suburban Oak Park have been forced to repay the NRA’s legal fees in McDonald and related cases—to the tune of more than $1.4 million dollars.
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January 25, 2013
Imagine a grandfather who wants to give a family shotgun to his 12-year-old grandson having to do a background check on his grandson before giving him the shotgun.
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January 25, 2013
An article appearing on TheHill.com yesterday asserted that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) is working on a bill with the NRA that would implement universal background checks.
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