Tag Archives: guns

John Oliver Ridicules NRA TV [VIDEO]

TIME Magazine reports: In the wake of the shooting at Parkland, Florida high school, Oliver noted that the public pressure is actually working and many companies are dropping the discounts given to NRA members. However, so far, one group has held firm — big tech companies like Amazon, Apple, and Roku have resisted public pressure are all still offering access …

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NRA Threatens Media: The Clock Starts Now [VIDEO]

The Independent reports: The National Rifle Association has released a video containing a threatening message to journalists, warning them “your time is running out”. In a video posted on Twitter by NRATV, conservative political activist and TV host Dana Loesch tells “every lying member of the media” that they have “had enough”. Set to a backing track of ominous-sounding guitar …

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Billboard Campaign Calls NRA “A Terrorist Organization”

The Pensacola News-Journal reports: The same anti-Republican political action committee responsible for a billboard that targeted GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz in January has paid for a second billboard in Pensacola, this time taking aim at the NRA. The new sign on North W Street near West Fairfield Drive was paid for by Mad Dog PAC, an organization registered in December …

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Gun Owners Group Fumes: Trump Is Now “Officially” The Most Anti-Gun President In American History

The AFA’s OneNewsNow reports: The president expressed support for expanded background checks, increased school security and more mental health resources – as well as raising the age for purchasing some firearms to 21. Mike Hammond, who serves as Legislative Council to Gun Owners of America, points out that America has hundreds of thousands of 18-20-year-olds in the military. “The words …

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Only 13 NRA Members Ever Used Their Delta Discount

USA Today reports: How many airline passengers does it take to kill a $40 million tax break for Delta Air Lines? 13. The Georgia legislature removed a jet-fuel tax break from a larger tax package Thursday. Lawmakers were upset that Delta, which is headquartered in Atlanta, dropped the National Rifle Association from a discount-fare program in an effort to appear …

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BREAKING: Active Shooter At Michigan University, Multiple Injuries, Two Dead, Campus On Lockdown

Story developing. The Detroit Free Press reports: Police are responding to reports of shots fired at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant this morning. According to 9&10 News, a text was sent to students alerting them of reports of shots fired near the 4th floor of Campbell Hall, a co-ed dorm. The college’s school of humanities and behaviorial sciences also …

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NRA Flack: We Just Met With Trump And He Supports Strong Due Process, Doesn’t Want Gun Control

The New York Post reports: President Trump and an NRA executive had a “good (great)” meeting at the White House on Thursday — one day after Trump told lawmakers to take people’s guns away and “go through due process second.” Trump met with the head of the National Rifle Association’s lobbying arm, who stated after the Oval Office sit-down that …

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Tucker Carlson Rips Trump: If Obama Said To Ignore Due Process, We’d Have Called Him A Dictator [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: After criticizing the president for expressing support for a raise in the age limit to buy guns — calling that proposal “sneaky propaganda” that won’t save lives — he then took issue with Trump suggesting some lawmakers are puppets of the NRA. That is when he brought up POTUS’s “due process” line. “Now, I mean, how honest do …

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Conway: Trump’s Gun Meeting Wasn’t On Gun Control

Talking Points Memo reports: After President Donald Trump concerned Republicans on Capitol Hill by floating the possibility of raising the age to purchase rifles to 21 years old and seizing guns from those who may post a threat, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway insisted that Trump’s meeting Wednesday was “not about gun control.” During an interview on “Fox and Friends” …

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Smith & Wesson CEO: Gun Sales Are Up Since Parkland

Reuters reports: The chief executive officer of American Outdoor Brands Corporation (AOBC.O), maker of Smith & Wesson guns, on Thursday said gun retailers reported increased foot traffic and sales after the Florida high school shooting. CEO James Debney, on a conference call with investors to discuss earnings, briefly addressed the Feb. 14 attack at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, …

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GEORGIA: Republicans Approve Bill Stripping Tax Break From Delta Over Dropping Discounts For NRA Members

The Associated Press reports: Georgia lawmakers punished Delta Air Lines on Thursday for its decision to cut business ties with the National Rifle Association in the wake of a shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 people. A tax measure, which was stripped of a jet-fuel tax break, passed the GOP-dominated Senate 44-10, with only Democrats opposed. It …

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ORLANDO: Pulse And Parkland Survivors Meet [VIDEO]

The Orlando Sentinel reports: Survivors of the mass shootings at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub and a South Florida high school embraced Wednesday outside the club where 49 people were killed nearly two years ago. “We’re all family,” said Neema Bahrami, who was an event manager at Pulse at the time of the attack. Pulse survivors, wearing shirts that read “We Will …

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Rush Limbaugh Suggests Georgia Teacher Is “Radical Leftist” Planted To Stop Movement To Arm Teachers

Media Matters has the transcript of today’s show: So we have a teacher barricaded in a classroom with no students. No children. No students anywhere around. And starts firing some shots. Barricaded in the classroom. And then here comes some cops and nab the guy is in custody and we got a breaking new stories: “Teacher in Custody After Georgia …

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GEORGIA: Teacher Who Fired Shot In School Charged With Making Terror Threats, Has Mental Issues History

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: The longtime radio voice of Dalton High School football and basketball, who is facing charges after he fired at least one shot inside a classroom Wednesday, once tried to confess to having someone killed, police said. The confession was one of two previous incidents involving Randal Davidson and local police. Dalton police could not verify any …

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Walmart Raises Minimum Gun Purchase Age To 21

The Associated Press reports: Walmart announced Wednesday that it will no longer sell firearms and ammunition to people younger than 21 and would also remove items resembling assault-style rifles from its website. The move comes after Dick’s Sporting Goods announced earlier in the day that it would restrict the sale of firearms to those under 21 years old. It didn’t …

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Breitbart Rages Against “Gun Grabber” Trump

Breitbart editor Joel Pollak writes: President Donald Trump took on the National Rifle Association (NRA) — and politicians who support it — in a free-wheeling, bipartisan, televised discussion on gun laws with members of Congress at the White House Wednesday. This meeting was different, however, in that the president was not just listening, but driving policy in a particular direction. …

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Moonie Church Holds Blessing Of AR-15s [VIDEO]

The Associated Press reports: Crown-wearing worshippers clutching AR-15 rifles drank holy wine and exchanged or renewed wedding vows in a commitment ceremony at a Pennsylvania church on Wednesday, prompting a nearby school to cancel classes. With state police and a smattering of protesters standing watch outside the church, brides clad in white and grooms in dark suits brought dozens of …

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Trump Calls For Literal Gun-Grabbing [VIDEO]

USA Today reports: President Trump said he favored taking guns away from people who might commit violence before going through legal due process Wednesday, one of many startling comments he made in a rambling White House meeting with a bipartisan group of lawmakers. Trump also called some of his fellow Republicans afraid of the NRA, said “we must harden our …

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Students Are Giving The Liberal Redneck Hope On Guns

Raw Story reports: Is it national heart-wrenching tragedy day again? That’s the question in a new video from liberal redneck Trae Crowder, the comedian and vlogger, who has again taken on gun control laws. He’s sick of talking about it. “Time really does fly when you’re living in a fucking hellscape,” he says. “How are we even supposed to have …

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GEORGIA: High School On Lockdown After Armed Teacher Fires Shots In Classroom, Teacher In Custody

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: A North Georgia teacher, known as the longtime radio voice of Dalton High School football, is in custody after he fired at least one shot inside a classroom, police said. The incident at Dalton High School, about 91 miles northwest of downtown Atlanta, sent panicked students running through hallways and alarmed parents already on edge in …

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