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Election 2016
His newest foreign policy advisor, Frank Gaffney, is a key player in the effort to remove Grover Norquist from the organization's board.
In Memoriam
Caval Haylett Jr. spent his final game dunking for the Poughkeepsie Pioneers. A few hours later, a stray bullet stole his life.
Data
Researchers found FBI and CDC databases drastically undercounted the number of fatal police shootings.
National Rifle Association
The gun-rights group mines the histories of the president's judicial nominees for anything that resembles a stance on firearms, and finds a way to use it against them.
Gun Rights
Prominent legal scholar says controversial vote may just be evidence of Supreme Court nominee's respect for precedent.
Community Violence
The city has one of the highest murder rates in the country. State cost-cutting measures, like the one that poisoned the Flint River, exacerbate the problem.
Campus Carry
The self-proclaimed “lifetime defender” of the Second Amendment urges lawmakers to amend a controversial bill.
One of his decisions relates to the most important Second Amendment case in American history.
For all its perceived influence, the gun rights group could not, would not, did not join the effort to derail the party's unwelcome frontrunner.
Gun Policy
Behind the decision was a contentious Pennsylvania law empowering lawsuits by gun groups.