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| NEWS LEGAL & LEGISLATION Pro-Gun Members of Congress Respond to State Department’s Disastrous Manufacturing “Guidance” | |
| This week, pro-gun members of Congress responded to the Obama administration’s attempt at backdoor gun control through the U.S. State Department (DOS) with strongly worded letters demanding corrective action. | |
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| NEWS Recent UN Arms Trade Treaty Conference Marks Dangerous Shift in U.S. Policy | |
| August 22 marked the opening date of the week-long Second Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty in Geneva, Switzerland. It also marked a clear shift in U.S. strategy for dealing with this international gun control effort. | |
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| NEWS Fanning the Flames, or Hitch up that Asbestos Pantsuit | |
| The Trump for President website offers a “Pantsuit on Fire” t-shirt. We don’t know how brisk the sales are, but it’s a safe bet that sales are outperforming Ms. Clinton’s ratings as an honest candidate (in one August poll, only eleven percent of registered voters described Hillary Clinton as “honest and trustworthy”). | |
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| NEWS ATF Delays Any Changes to Nitrocellulose Regulation | |
| Earlier this summer, ATF released an Explosives Industry Newsletter that changed the agency’s treatment of nitrocellulose, the primary component in smokeless powders used in modern ammunition. This change had the potential to seriously disrupt ammunition supply in the United States because it changed a long-standing ATF policy that exempted properly “wetted” nitrocellulose from treatment as an explosive under federal law. | |
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| NEWS Abracadabra! Gun Owners Reappear Like Magic! | |
| People who tell pollsters that they own guns: Now you see them, now you don’t. A new poll from Pew Research has found that 44 percent of American households own guns, up a whopping 29 percent from the figure reported in a poll conducted for the same organization two years ago. | |
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| NEWS Clinton Supporter Attacks Trump, Blames NRA for Chicago Mother’s Murder | |
| The self-proclaimed “Dean of Comedy,” radio talk show host Dean Obeidallah, has blamed a Chicago African-American mother’s murder, allegedly by repeat offenders, on NRA’s opposition to gun control, and he’s attacked GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump for attributing inner city murders to policies that Clinton supports. | |
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| NEWS Illegal Blocking: College Sports Teams Disarming Athletes? | |
| The rigidly ideological atmosphere of many colleges and universities is a frequent topic of discussion these days. But at least there’s still college sports, right? | |
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| NEWS Work Locally with Your NRA-ILA Campaign Field Representative | |
| Your NRA-ILA Campaign Field Representative (CFR) is an NRA-ILA staff person who is living in your area, coordinating our volunteer activities with one goal in mind--ensuring pro-Second Amendment voters turn out to "Vote Freedom First!" on Election Day. | |
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NRA All Access meets Jason Hairston, founder of outdoor gear company KUIU, who shares his love for the outdoors and how he risked it all to follow his dreams. Then we make our way to New York where we visit with Kimber – America’s leading manufacturer of premium production firearms and learn how this company does it all right here in the U.S. Tune in Wednesday at 7pm ET on Outdoor Channel! |
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WHAT IS THE FREEDOM CHALLENGE? The Freedom Challenge grassroots campaign was created by Rock Island Auction Company® to raise awareness and financial support for NRA-ILA, an organization that has stalwartly defended the Second Amendment for decades. 2016 is the most important year we’ve seen in a generation or more. The attack on the Second Amendment is clear; many politicians, government officials and members of the media look to destroy our Constitutional rights. The Supreme Court's greatest Second Amendment advocate — Justice Antonin Scalia — has passed away, leaving a vacancy on the Court that the next president will fill. Simply put, our firearm and other freedoms hang in the balance and it will take an army of us to take a stand. |
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On November 14, 2016, at the Ben Avery Shooting Facility in Phoenix, Ariz., history will be made with 1,000 freedom-loving Americans simultaneously firing 1,000 Henry Repeating Arms Golden Boy Silver rifles! Don't miss this opportunity to help make a new World Record! |
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