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NRA Praises Heroic Dallas Officers, Continues To Help Flood Nation With Millions Of Assault Weapons

“On behalf of the more than five million members of the National Rifle Association, and especially on behalf of our members from the law enforcement community, I want to express the deep anguish all of us feel for the heroic Dallas law enforcement officers who were killed and wounded, as well as to those who so bravely ran toward danger …

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GOP CAVES: House To Vote On Gun Control Bill

The Hill reports: A week after Democrats staged a nearly 26-hour sit-in demanding a vote on gun control measures, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said the House will vote next week on legislation to block suspected terrorists from buying guns. In a conference call Thursday, Ryan told rank-and-file Republicans that the House will take up a terrorism package that will include …

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NRA To Spend $2M On New Anti-Hillary Ad [VIDEO]

B-B-B-B-Benghaziiiiiiii! Via Raw Story: The National Rifle Association’s political action committee is set to air $2 million worth of advertising to promote a survivor of the Benghazi attacks in 2012 in efforts to hurt Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The Republican House committee on Benghazi released its eighth report Tuesday providing no new information and the Chairman still couldn’t prove …

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Gay Against Guns Stage Die-In At NYC Pride

Bustle reports: LGBT activists who want stricter gun laws seized the day at New York City’s Pride March on Sunday, staging a “die in” on 5th Avenue to draw attention to anti-gay gun violence. But the ‘Gays Against Guns’ Pride demonstration was much more than a one-time thing. It was work of an entirely new advocacy group, founded in the …

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NRA Head Wayne LaPierre Slams “Politically Correct” Feds For Taking Pulse Killer Off Watch List [VIDEO]

And the NRA bears no responsibility for putting that assault weapon in his hands. CBS News reports: Appearing on “Face the Nation” Sunday, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre blamed a “politically correct” federal government for the fact that the Orlando nightclub massacre gunman was taken off an FBI watch list. He also said Americans need to be …

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Gays Vs The NRA: 50 LGBT Groups Sign Pledge To Back Gun Control Reform Legislation (But Not HRC)

In the wake of the Orlando nightclub massacre, a coalition of 50 groups – most of them LGBT – have signed onto a pledge to pressure lawmakers to enact gun control reform measures. Conspicuously absent from the list of signatories is the Human Rights Campaign. Chris Johnson reports at the Washington Blade: The organizations issue the joint statement as congressional …

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New York Daily News To NRA: Is This Iraq War Vet A Commie For Wanting To Ban Assault Weapons?

The NRA will probably say “yes” since this vet is also a Democratic member of the US House. Rep. Seth Moulton writes: It’s a hollow tradition following each mass shooting, and it has become routine: President Obama gives a speech, reminding us that living this way is a choice. The NRA releases a statement bemoaning the lack of guns at …

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Seth Meyers On Orlando: Hatred Drove The Killer But Inaction By Congress Gave Him The Guns [VIDEO]

Raw Story recaps: Meyers noted that the shooter used the same weapon that has been used in other mass shootings like the San Bernardino and Aurora shootings. “Now, there’s been a lot of talk about motive,” Meyers acknowledged. “This was an attack on LGBT people fueled by bigotry and hatred and the shooter was apparently inspired by ISIS, but we’re …

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NRA Blames Orlando Attack On President Obama

After two days the NRA has broken their silence on the Orlando attack with an op-ed published by USA Today. They write: The terrorist in Orlando had been investigated multiple times by the FBI. He had a government-approved security guard license with a contractor for the Department of Homeland Security. Yet his former co-workers reported violent and racist comments. Unfortunately, …

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Editorial: Anti-LGBT Hate Caused This

While some right wing outlets and commentators are discounting or ignoring the identities of the victims in Orlando, the editorial board of the Detroit Free Press gets right to the heart of it. They write: Let’s start here: The Pulse nightclub shootings — the largest mass murder in American history, claiming at least 50 lives — were an act of …

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New York Daily News: Thanks, NRA

From the New York Daily News: His killing machine of choice was a mass murderer’s best friend — and his enabler a gun lobby that has long opposed efforts to keep assault weapons out of the hands of bloodthirsty maniacs. The madman who killed at least 50 people and wounded 53 others at an Orlando club early Sunday was armed …

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Homocon Richard Grenell Exploits Trans Women To Attack Gavin Newsom On Gun Control [VIDEO]

From the Desert Sun: Richard Grenell, a Palm Springs resident, Trump delegate and Fox News contributor, is behind a series of ads this week targeting Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s gun-control measure that’s expected to land on the November ballot. The ads were created by a new group calling itself the Coalition for Civil Liberties and are unique in who they …

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The Liberal Redneck Unloads On The NRA [VIDEO]

The New York Daily News has hired viral YouTube star Trae Crowder as their “Hillbilly-In-Chief” as part of their continuing campaign against the NRA. As always, no recap because the jokes must be heard firsthand. Watch below.

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Seth Meyers Mocks Trump/NRA Love Match [VIDEO]

Mediaite sets up the clip: The National Rifle Association kicked off its annual meeting this past weekend by officially endorsing presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, whose history on the gun issue, like many issues, features more flips than an IHOP kitchen next to a marijuana dispensary. On Monday night’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, host Seth Meyers took aim …

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Donald Trump: Hillary Backs Gun Control Therefore She Doesn’t Deserve Armed Bodyguards

From the Washington Post: A day after Donald Trump told people at the National Rifle Association that Hillary Clinton would strip away their right to bear arms, the Republican seemed to suggest on social media that his opponent, who he thinks totes a hard line on gun control, should disarm her Secret Service team. Asked what Trump meant by his …

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The NRA Endorses Trump

Shocking. The Hill reports: The National Rifle Association (NRA) has endorsed Donald Trump for president. NRA chief lobbyist Chris Cox announced the endorsement Friday during the gun lobby’s annual conference in Louisville, Ky. The NRA told supporters Trump is the only remaining presidential candidate who will defend their Second Amendment rights, and urged skeptical Republicans who supported other candidates during …

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NRA Board Member Ted Nugent Posts Video Showing Hillary Clinton Being Murdered By Bernie Sanders

From People For The American Way: Outspoken “gun rights” activist Ted Nugent, a BOARD MEMBER of the NRA, just posted a SHOCKING edited video on Facebook of Hillary Clinton getting shot, with the caption, “I got your guncontrol [sic] right here bitch!” If this outrageously violent “spoof” video, in which Bernie Sanders draws a gun and shoots Hillary Clinton on …

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NRA Adds Guns To Children’s Fairy Tales

The Hill reports: The gun lobby is facing criticism for rewriting a series of children’s fairy tales to put guns in the hands of beloved characters. The National Rifle Association (NRA) this year has released two stories — “Little Red Riding Hood (Has a Gun)” and “Hansel and Gretel (Have Guns)” — that arm the main characters with firearms. “Have …

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Jeb Bush Blows Up Twitter With “America” Gun

This afternoon Jeb Bush embarrassingly sucked up to the NRA by tweeting a photo of a handgun engraved with his name and an accompanying single word: “America.” Twitter is having a field day, as you see below.

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NRA Head Wayne LaPierre Challenges President Obama To Hour-Long Debate On Gun Control [VIDEO]

From the New York Daily News: National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre, after unloading with both barrels on President Obama, challenged the Commander-in-Chief to an hour-long debate on guns. “I’ll meet you for a one-on-one, one-hour debate — with a mutually agreed moderator — on any network that will take it,” LaPierre declared in a video released Thursday on the …

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