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The NRA and Me
"These guys think they’re going to be on their roof with their AR-15 and thousands of rounds of ammo, shooting all of the zombies, the minorities, whoever."
"Every gun owner I know, we ache and mourn as a community if someone has perished or been injured by someone with a gun. It's a terrible thing."
Some of their proposals defy political and cultural expectations.
National Rifle Association
New York financial regulators said on Wednesday that a controversial insurance program offered by the National Rifle Association violates state law, and they have levied a multi-million dollar fine on the company that administers it. In a Wednesday announcement,…
The most influential gun lobbyist in the United States has declared war on the Florida Republicans who passed a set of state firearm reforms in the wake of the Parkland school shooting. In a scathing post published on the…
There are a lot of ways to gauge the political significance of the gun bill signed by Florida Governor Rick Scott on Friday afternoon. But one number keeps jumping out to us. Sixty-seven. According to our analysis,…
The Gunfighters
In February, I published a long profile of Marion Hammer, the National Rifle Association’s Florida lobbyist, who over the last four decades has transformed the state into a laboratory for laws that have rolled back long-established restrictions on firearms and…
Over the weeks that followed the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, concerned residents of Florida, one of the most pro-gun states in the country, began to email their state representatives about the possibility of new…
In the wake of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the National Rifle Association has lost relationships with a number of big corporations that are facing public pressure: Delta, Hertz, and MetLife to…
Gun Policy
Even before Governor Rick Scott of Florida publicly recommended his package of modest gun regulations, Marion Hammer, the National Rifle Association’s top lobbyist in the state, was marshaling her vast network of supporters for a fight. In an…
Florida Republicans have allowed the relentless pro-gun operator to become a de facto member of government.
In January, McClatchy dropped a heckuva scoop: The FBI is investigating whether Russia illegally funneled campaign funds to the National Rifle Association as part of the country’s effort to influence the 2016 presidential election. The NRA spent more than…
Add the National Rifle Association to the groups that are putting money into the effort to elect the Alabama Republican Roy Moore to the United States Senate. In the four weeks since allegations first surfaced that Moore had sexually…
The National Rifle Association has come out against a bipartisan bill that would accomplish what the NRA’s own leadership has publicly proclaimed to support: subjecting gun bump stocks to new restrictions, without banning them outright. The bill’s lead…
Law
A controversial insurance program launched by the National Rifle Association is now under investigation in New York state. The program, called Carry Guard, consists of advanced self-defense firearms training, along with insurance protection for eligible legal costs incurred after shooting…