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On AlterNet: nra

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "nra"

Scary: Bullet Makers Can't Keep Up With Demand

Scary: Bullet Makers Can't Keep Up With Demand

Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. September 28, 2009.
"I call it the Obama effect," says one Louisiana gun dealer.

Conservatives Packing Heat at Town Hall Meetings

Conservatives Packing Heat at Town Hall Meetings

Mark Ristaino, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. August 11, 2009.
Two separate incidents of armed Tea Baggers infiltrating town hall meetings have occurred this week. Should we be worried for our lives?

NRA Rallies Around a Coke Dealer ... Will Repubs Follow its Lead?

NRA Rallies Around a Coke Dealer ... Will Repubs Follow its Lead?

BarbinMD, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. July 25, 2009.
Remember all that jazz about keeping guns out of the hands of criminals?

The NRA and Mitch McConnell Go After Sotomayor

The NRA and Mitch McConnell Go After Sotomayor

BarbinMD, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. July 8, 2009.
How tiresome and unsurprising.

Packing Heat in Our National Parks: How Did We Let the Gun Fanatics Get Their Way?

Packing Heat in Our National Parks: How Did We Let the Gun Fanatics Get Their Way?

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. May 26, 2009.
Our national parks are among the safest places in America. So against what, exactly, are the proponents of the new gun law defending themselves?

Michael Steele + NRA = Hilarity.

Michael Steele + NRA = Hilarity.

Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. May 15, 2009.
Steele: we need guns to defend ourselves against 'terrorists' coming to 'our communities.'

The Gun Lobby Asks You to Please Lay Off the Mass Killings While It's Trying to Influence Legislation

The Gun Lobby Asks You to Please Lay Off the Mass Killings While It's Trying to Influence Legislation

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. March 26, 2009.
In a month filled with tragic shootings, lawmakers are not thinking of gun owners as an oppressed minority. But the NRA is hoping to change that.

Is the NRA Seriously Strapped for Cash?

Is the NRA Seriously Strapped for Cash?

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. December 21, 2008.
It invested $15 million to go after Obama, and an additional $25 million to help Republicans win congressional seats. Not exactly money well spent.

Gun Crazy: Firearms Proponents Want a World Where College Kids Carry Concealed Weapons

Gun Crazy: Firearms Proponents Want a World Where College Kids Carry Concealed Weapons

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. December 9, 2008.
The NRA and Co. have pushed campaigns to allow concealed-weapons permits on college campuses in 15 states this year and failed in all of them.

NRA Launches Terribly Thought Out Attack on Obama

NRA Launches Terribly Thought Out Attack on Obama

Paco Fabian, AmericasVoiceOnline AlterNet: PEEK. October 2, 2008.
How do you say backfire en Espanol?

Gun Control Activist Actually Paid NRA Spy

David Neiwert, Firedoglake AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. August 7, 2008.
Heaven help us if we become as paranoid as they are. And the funny thing is, they keep proving that we ought to be.

Huckabee Jokes About Someone Shooting Obama

Huckabee Jokes About Someone Shooting Obama

ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. May 17, 2008.
The McCain supporter thinks gun control is a laughing matter.

Gun Rights and Our National Identity Crisis

Gun Rights and Our National Identity Crisis

Daniel Lazare, The Nation. April 22, 2008.
When it comes to the Second Amendment, Americans are largely at the mercy of 18th-century attitudes they don't know how to escape.

The Coming Showdown on Gun Control

The Coming Showdown on Gun Control

Rhonda Brownstein, Southern Poverty Law Center. March 13, 2008.
The Supreme Court's ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller may be the most important decision on gun control in U.S. history.

Where's the Debate Over Gun Control?

Where's the Debate Over Gun Control?

Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. February 22, 2008.
As the Democratic party becomes increasingly pro-gun, not even campus bloodshed grabs the candidates' attention.

Guns in Your Workplace Parking Lot? Thanks, NRA!

Guns in Your Workplace Parking Lot? Thanks, NRA!

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. January 16, 2008.
The NRA is reviving its campaign to prohibit businesses from forbidding employees from keeping firearms in their cars.

Giuliani and McCain Get Into a Gunfight

Giuliani and McCain Get Into a Gunfight

Steve Benen, AlterNet: PEEK. September 21, 2007.
Steve Benen: The NRA convention is proving to be the perfect opportunity for McCain to attack Rudy from the right on gun control.

Firearm Industry Sets Sights on Young Hunters

Firearm Industry Sets Sights on Young Hunters

Jessica Pupovac, AlterNet. February 28, 2007.
Motivated by a nationwide decline in hunters, industry-sponsored hunter's education classes are enticing record numbers of kids to take up the sport.

Weird Coalitions - Or, How to Make Bipartisanship Work for Us

David Sirota, AlterNet: PEEK. January 8, 2007.
Sometimes embracing your traditional enemies can build the strongest coalitions of all.