Joe Biden's Google Hangout Takes on Assault Weapons and the NRA
The vice president's key message was about "gun safety," but he also had some choice words for gun-rights advocates.
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The vice president's key message was about "gun safety," but he also had some choice words for gun-rights advocates.
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While bucking one of the administration's few proposals on firearms that Republicans might actually accept, Wayne LaPierre offered no new ideas — indeed, old ideas — during a speech that reveals the backwards thinking behind the gun lobby's future.
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A new poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS News says that one of the most popular initiatives being pushed by gun control advocates is pretty popular among gun owners too.
Guns don't kill kids — ignoring kids kills kids. That seems to be the message many upset Americans are taking away from the National Rifle Association's new lobbying strategy following its response to President Obama's gun announcement today, as the NRA and the White House prepared for a fight over legislation after Obama's executive actions.
Meanwhile, at the SHOT Show in Las Vegas, emboldened gun owners and high-tech gun makers were watching, as frustrated and determined as ever.
It was Washington conventional wisdom that Obama would do nothing on guns once the outrage over the Newtown shooting quieted. But he signed 23 executive actions meant to reduce gun violence, and began a major push in Congress. What changed?
President Obama signed the actions into immediate law, saying that "we must act now" even as Congressional action looms.
The President just announced his highly-anticipated proposals for new gun control legislation, including 23 executive orders designed to tackle the issue.
On the day that Obama and Biden are set to reveal their proposals — including a renewed assault-weapons ban — for gun legislation, a rare, behind-the-scenes look at an NRA nominating committee implicates a CEO who made money off the Bushmaster assault rifle used in the Newtown shooting.
As the White House prepares to unveil its gun-violence proposals Tuesday, the NRA has released an attack ad calling President Obama an "elitist hypocrite" for having armed protection of his daughters but not believing that putting an armed guard in every public school in America is the only way to stop school shootings.
There's a conspiracy theory floating around that the controversial new first-person shooter game in the iTunes Store might be a counterfeit app, but the National Rifle Association has picked some curious timing to ignore the controversy.
President Obama will reveal a two-part package to combat gun violence at the White House on Wednesday, though the specifics of his plan remain relatively mysterious.
With the nation's largest seller of guns refusing to speak out on its pivotal and complex role in the retail reality of firearms, gun-control advocates are holding a rally Tuesday outside a Walmart just eight miles from Newtown.
President Obama is looking at issuing 19 executive actions on gun control, and while gun enthusiasts fear a gun ban that can't happen by executive order, there is one proposal that should make the gun lobby plenty nervous: allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research gun violence.
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The group may have put itself back on its lobbying heels, because they introduced a new app for the iPhone and iPad last night — complete with virtual assault rifles — which the NRA's mobile developers (and Apple) say is appropriate for children ages four and up.
The New York Governor continues to fight for "the toughest assault weapons ban in the nation," and imminent deal with multiple restrictions is reported to be imminent.
"What I will not do is have that negotiation with a gun at the head of the American people," President Obama said at his press conference Monday.
O'Malley's proposed gun-control legislation won't be an easy sell in the context of the national debate — or his potential run for president in 2016.
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D.C.'s attorney general defends the Meet the Press host's violating of "an important law" because Gregory did so in service of the debate on gun violence.
The proposal by David Dewhurst, though light on details, is one of the highest-ranking endorsements for placing guns in the hands of teachers from an elected official since the Newtown shootings.
The National Rifle Association's proposal to put armed guards in every single school in America was unimaginably tone-deaf, but it's not unimaginable. After a public outcry for security, we've had a massive nationwide effort to hire thousands of security agents for low wages relatively recently. You might know it as the Transportation Security Administration.
The White House may be signaling to gun-rights advocates that it will offer funding for police in schools, and more teachers may be signing up for gun training, but this could not be what anyone had in mind, could it?
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As Vice President Biden prepares his recommendations on gun control, both the administration and the its toughest opponents seem convinced that a new assault weapons ban isn't in the cards.
In a gruesome and still mysterious twist of fate, Georgia police found the man curating the FPSRussia channel shot in the head and surrounded by guns — just not the one that left him dead.
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Tactical Response CEO James Yeager made his best case against gun control (and inadvertently, the best case for it) on Thursday by posting a video in which he promised to "start killing people" if President Obama uses executive orders to regulate guns.
With a consensus emerging on universal background checks and the so-called "gun show loophole" — and not much expected from a sit-down with gun-rights advocates — a task force headed by Vice President Joe Biden will issue its recommendations on curbing gun violence next Tuesday.
Call it ammunition for the gun lobby's meeting with Vice President Joe Biden this afternoon, but that's what the NRA is telling Politico. We have some questions.
The National Rifle Association will promise to offer "meaningful contributions" to the gun control debate after the Newtown first-grader massacre. That contribution has turned out to be a series of cliches which the NRA will offer Vice President Joe Biden Thursday in its meeting with his gun commission.
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Less than a month after the Newtown shootings, a new report confirms an unsettling truth that already seemed statistically likely: On average, Americans are dying younger because of guns.
The New York governor's much anticipated speech did not outline his gun-control proposals in detail, but behind the scenes, the state legislature is reportedly "within 95 percent of a deal" and could agree on wide-reaching measures by the end of the week.
More than 100,000 people signed an official petition asking the Obama administration to consider deporting the CNN host after his focus on gun control after Newtown, and the White House had some bad news for those people on Wednesday afternoon.
The Drudge Report seemed to reach a new level of gun-confiscation hysteria Tuesday afternoon when it used photos of Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin to illustrate a headline about "executive orders." But the controversial display wasn't actually new at all.
In his first post-Newtown State of the State address Wednesday, Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy said Washington's delays on national gun legislation were "unacceptable" and rejected the NRA's proposal to put a gun in every American school.
Vice President Joe Biden's use of the words "executive action" has the National Rifle Association and the Drudge Report freaking out. But, relax guys: President Obama can't do that much on guns with an executive order. If he wants a big change in gun laws, he still has to go through Congress.
A new Public Policy Polling survey shows that just a quarter of Americans support giving teachers guns, with NRA support dropping below 50 percent and support for its armed-guard plan narrow even amongst Republicans.
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