Topic: Mark Meckler

Tea Party Leader Learns About Gun Control the Hard Way

Reuters

Mark Meckler -- co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, one of the largest Tea Party groups in the country -- has gotten to know that his Second Amendment rights are more nuanced than he'd probably like after after being arrested for trying to bring his pistol onto a flight from LaGuardia Airport in New York. 

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