In the Line of Fire
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View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Unmasking the NRA’s Inner Circle
The NRA operates more like a corporation or politburo than a typical nonprofit or lobbying organization. Its shadowy leaders include the CEO who sells Bushmaster assault rifles used in the Newtown...
View ArticleHow the NRA became the fringe
Today's NRA's interpretation of the Second Amendment seems to put it to the right of not only most Americans, including most gun owners, but also the Roberts Supreme Court and even Justice Antonin...
View ArticleWhat the Judiciary Committee Should Ask Wayne LaPierre
On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on gun violence featuring testimony from the NRA's Wayne LaPierre, as well as Mark Kelly, the husband of former Representative Gabrielle...
View ArticleThe gun at the heart of the assault weapons debate
The firearm at the heart of the “assault weapons” debate is a Bushmaster AR-15 semi-automatic rifle used last month in the Newtown, Conn. The NRA maintains it is good for hunting and home defense...
View ArticleSenate witness on weapons ban funded by gun lobby
At the same time that the gun lobby is helping to fuel threatening language on the Internet, it is trying to keep secret its financial backing for key witnesses testifying about gun violence before the...
View ArticleWhy Can’t We Do Anything About Guns?
The only thing stopping real gun reform in the United States is a paranoid fear that some future, tyrannical regime would seize Americans’ guns and impose a totalitarian state.
View ArticleFour Years after Sandy Hook, the NRA Continues the Arming of America
“I don’t think it’s quite game over,” said Jonathan E. Lowy, legal director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. “But there are reasons to be concerned.”
View Article“The Price of Freedom”: For the Gun Lobby, Mass Shootings Cannot Be Avoided
“This is the price of freedom,” former, disgraced Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly wrote Monday on his own website hours after the Las Vegas country music concert shooting.
View ArticleFive Years After Sandy Hook, Major U.S. Papers Still Have a Serious Gun Problem
The news and opinion section at each The New York Times and The Washington Post are out of synch whether to identify "independent" gun rights scholar David Kopel's NRA funding.
View ArticleThe Early NRA Had Nothing to Do with the KKK: Neo-Nazis and others only got...
The role that race has played in the NRA is actually different from what many people may think.
View ArticleFive myths about the National Rifle Association: No, the NRA did not start...
Here are five myths about the NRA’s mission and history — some told by critics, others told by the NRA itself.
View ArticleThe NRA’s 40-year problem: It chose its leadership and gun-rights zealotry...
The financial improprieties alleged by New York’s attorney general in her lawsuit against the National Rifle Association remind me of a scandal nearly a century ago. NRA leaders back then, however,...
View ArticleThe Myths Fueling Today’s Armed Right How the NRA seeded the storylines...
America’s pro-Trump armed right would not be the first to invent a new ideology to justify in advance their violence against others. Genocidaires developed propaganda ahead of the mass violence in...
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