NRA Delays Ad Campaign In Wake Of Las Vegas

The Hill reports:

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has delayed political advertisements in Virginia in the wake of a mass shooting in Las Vegas that left more than 58 people dead and more than 500 injured.

The nation’s largest gun rights organization had originally booked $32,000 in cable television advertising to begin Tuesday, according to Advertising Analytics, a nonpartisan ad-buying firm that keeps tabs on the television market.

Now, those advertisements will begin on Oct. 10. At the same time, the NRA will devote just more than $1 million to ads airing on broadcast networks in markets around Virginia.

The NRA wants a law passed allowing legal sale of SILENCERS .. Imagine the number of dead if people couldn’t hear the shots @realDonaldTrump

— Olga_Lautman NYC ✨ (@olgaNYC1211) October 2, 2017

2 bills B4 House this week:
1 lifts ban on silencers.
1 allows sale of armor piercing bullets.
They took in millions from @NRA
CALL UR REP

— ALT?Immigration?? (@ALT_uscis) October 2, 2017

The NRA wants to pass a bill allowing the legal purchase of silencers. People ducked and ran in Las Vegas because of the sound of gunfire.

— Heather Whaley (@HeatherWhaley) October 2, 2017

Just asked @SenBlumenthal to respond to @PressSec saying now isn’t time for gun control debate. His response: “If not now, when?”

— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) October 2, 2017