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Hillary Clinton has proudly proclaimed that if she's elected president, the destruction of our Second Amendment-protected rights will be her priority from " day one ." And while a majority of the American people don't trust her, this is one time when we must take her at her word.
In this May 9, 2016, file photo, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., speaks during a news conference in Philadelphia. Toomey is the rare conservative Republican who's running for re-election with the support of gun-control activists, including billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
SilencerCo LLC, the industry leader in silencers, is honored to have hosted U.S. Republican Senator for Utah and three-time National Rifle Association Man of the Year recipient Orrin Hatch at their headquarters in West Valley City. Senator Hatch, a prominent pro-gun leader since his election in 1977, spoke to more than 350 employees about the important role their jobs actively play in keeping our Second Amendment alive, the role all citizens play in this year's presidential election, and his continued pride in the advocacy work SilencerCo CEO Joshua Waldron has championed.
The list of flip-flops that Donald Trump has made since descending the escalators in his eponymous tower and into the presidential campaign continues to grow. The previous topics include abortion and assault rifles , on which he had different feelings before the presidential campaign.
Donald Trump was once again at the center of a firestorm Wednesday, this time over controversial comments interpreted by some as a threat of violence against presidential campaign rival Hillary Clinton. Trump's intended message was not immediately clear, but lawmakers, former national security officials and other critics expressed concern that he had advocated, possibly in jest, that Clinton or her Supreme Court nominees could be shot.
The National Rifle Association launched a new ad Tuesday in battleground states that portrays Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as an elitist who "would leave you defenseless." It will air in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nevada and North Carolina and at about $3 million it's the most expensive pro-Trump ad buy to date, according to an NRA spokeswoman.
Donald Trump ignited a fresh political firestorm Tuesday by declaring gun rights supporters might still find a way to stop Hillary Clinton, even if she should defeat him and then name anti-gun Supreme Court justices. Democrats pounced, accusing him of openly encouraging violence against his opponent.
Shortly after Donald Trump on Tuesday told supporters that "Second Amendment people" could stop Hillary Clinton from selecting Supreme Court justices, the National Rifle Association leapt to the GOP nominee's defense. "If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks," Trump lamented to a booing crowd at his rally in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Gays Against Guns was back in action this past weekend, staging a silent, spooky protest outside of the National Rifle Association's booth at the New Jersey State Fair as a vigil for victims of gun violence. About a half dozen people from the ever-growing organization donned white shawls and wore images of gun violence victims around their necks as they passed out information to fair attendees.
Asher Thomson looks over a pair of Colt revolvers at the National Rifle Association's annual meetings and exhibits show in Louisville, Kentucky, May 21, 2016. REUTERS/John Sommers II Charity firearm raffles are a common occurrence throughout much of America-and for good reason.
Tucson was rocked by gun violence when a crazed gunman opened fire at Gabby Giffords' Congress on Your Corner event seven years ago. That mass shooting killed six people and injured 13 more, including Giffords, who miraculously survived being shot through the head.
Police and others gather at the emergency entrance to Baylor Medical Center in Dallas, where several police officers were taken after shootings Thursday, July 7, 2016. WASHINGTON -- One man told an officer during a Minnesota traffic stop that he was a licensed gun owner and that he was reaching for his wallet, a witness said.
They'll do anything to keep aggrieved voters from noticing which party has run America's cities into the ground. After the massacre at a gay club in Orlando, Fla., by an American Muslim of Afghan origin affiliated with the Islamic State, the editors of the New York Times argued that the fundamental problem was "hate" exemplified by .
But to dismiss the sit-in by House Democrats [two weeks ago] is to dismiss the genuine anguish and frustration among those who advocate sensible gun regulation. It is to dismiss the harm done to America, and Americans, by the gun lobby and the proliferation of firearms it has encouraged.
Conservative opposition put a House Republican gun and anti-terrorism bill in jeopardy Wednesday, even as Democrats pressed for election-year votes on their proposals to stiffen firearm curbs. In an embarrassing blow to House Speaker Paul Ryan, members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus said they would oppose the measure despite its similarity to a GOP bill in the Senate that's endorsed by the National Rifle Association.
"The whole point of the U.S. Second Amendment is to give power to the people in case a tyrannical government rises up a " This sounds like something from the National Rifle Association. Consider the timing of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, which was passed by the U.S. Congress Sept.
While British voters put their economy at risk by voting to leave the European Union, the U.S. Congress continued to put the lives of innocent Americans at risk by remaining firmly in the National Rifle Association's pocket, killing common-sense gun control legislation. On June 15, when I posted my cartoon and column on the Orlando mass shooting, I wrote that if Congress wouldn't pass reasonable gun-control legislation after 20 children were massacred at Sandy Hook, they were unlikely to do anything after 49 adults were massacred in a gay nightclub.
Hawaii's governor signed a bill making it the first state to place its residents who own firearms in a federal criminal record database and monitor them for possible wrongdoing anywhere in the country, his office said. The move by gun control proponents in the liberal state represents an effort to institute some limits on firearms in the face of a bitter national debate over guns that this week saw Democratic lawmakers stage a sit-in at the U.S. House of Representatives .
During his re-election bid two years ago, Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor touted his opposition to legislation expanding background checks for firearms sales and wore the criticism he faced from gun control advocates as a badge of honor. His reward was being defeated by a Republican challenger who enjoyed an advertising blitz on his behalf by the National Rifle Association.