EXCLUSIVE: 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 ArticleIn the Line of Fire
We have not yet transcribed this article. The Village Voice archives available online also do not got back to 1995, either. However, you may read a copy of the original article at the look. We suggest...
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. The post Why Can’t We Do...
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.” The post Four Years after Sandy Hook,...
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. The post “The Price of...
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. The post Five Years...
View ArticleIn the Line of Fire
We have not yet transcribed this article. The Village Voice archives available online also do not got back to 1995, either. However, you may read a copy of the original article at the look. We suggest...
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.
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