On last night's Daily Show, Stewart tried to make sense of the NRA convention speakers' convoluted logic. In conclusion: "Stop pretending that background checks are the last barrier standing between a free America and Obama-sponsored government mom-rape."
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.
An old-fashioned Arkansas political sex scandal has inadvertently given a boost to the gun lobby's most important emissary.
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.
The only unpopular policy idea to help stop gun violence is the only one that's really been enacted since the Newtown school shooting.
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.
"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.
Colin Powell tells David Gregory why he thinks Hagel should be confirmed for Secretary of State, what he thinks of problems within the GOP, then gives a vague endorsement for gun reform. Elsewhere on the Sunday shows: Cory Booker dodges confirming a Senate run and more Hagel talk.
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.
Alex Koppelman on Joe Biden's gun talks, Kimberley Strassel on gun control roadblocks, Paul Krugman on why we should mint the trillion-dollar coin, Stephen Carter on why we shouldn't, Eleanor Clift on Obama's chief of staff search.
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.
The National Rifle Association promised to lobby Congress to block the proposals offered by Vice President Joe Biden's gun control commission, which will issue a report to President Obama on Tuesday.
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.
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.
You do not need to know the physics of how armor-piercing bullets work to have an opinion about whether they should be legal for civilians to buy. But having a basic knowledge about how these guns work is a good thing.
Jeff Flake has become the first GOP Senator to break ranks publicly with the NRA's plan to put armed guards in every school in America. And with Congress set to take up new gun legislation any day now, that could end up being a very big deal.
The apparent post-Newtown craze for gun-rights activists to transform teachers into gun-class students has arrived, despite the fact that no armed civilian has killed a mass shooter in the past three decades. Here's evidence from around the country.
A rare example of bridge-building for an organization that has blamed the media regarding Newtown and long before that: "I'm not a vindictive guy that wants to go after David Gregory," said NRA President David Keene on CNN Thursday.
The correlation between gun violence and violent shooter games is dubious, but there are some very real links between the two industries, with gun-makers using these virtual worlds to advertise their products.
It's unclear how William Spengler, a convicted felon, got the gun he used to shoot at firefighters he'd lured to the scene of a blaze. But data suggests that an NRA-supported loophole makes it pretty easy.
On Sunday morning, Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, told the world that armed guards stopped school shootings in Israel. Israel begs to differ.
National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre made his first public comments since his Friday press conference that wasn't well received. Despite David Gregory's best efforts, he didn't back down from a single point.
The New York Post and the New York Daily News compete to out-do one another with splashy covers daily and, on some rare occasions, they both produce winners. This weekend is one of those times, because they both skewered yesterday's crazy NRA speech.
The proposals and opinions offered by the NRA's Wayne LaPierre at a briefing Friday have been roundly criticized by gun control opponents already, but is he also wrong about the bare facts?
Almost line-by-line, what the NRA chief said at his press conference Friday was posted all over Facebook by anonymous gun lovers since the Newtown shootings. Just look how closely they match up.
On the same day the NRA blamed out-of-date movies and video games as the root cause of mass shootings like Newtown, Bloomberg-backed Demand a Plan released this video.
Perhaps the most talked-about moment from the NRA's already eventful press conference came when Wayne LaPierre called out the "corrupting shadow industry" of video games — then cited 10 year old titles like they were good evidence.
The National Rifle Association broke its post-Newtown massacre silence Friday with a riveting, unflinching press conference in which the NRA Executive Vice President outlined a program to place "armed police officers in every single school in the nation."
There was one piece of legislation introduced on the Senate floor yesterday in response to the Newtown shootings. It came ahead of any of the legislation from Sen. Dianne Feinstein or Vice President Biden's new commission. It was about video games. Why?
Membership is up, they tell us. People are giving more than usual, they say. We'll be back on Friday, they promised. But what's the truth about America's most powerful interest group after the massacre in Newtown?
You would think, after a 20-year-old with legal guns killed 20 first-graders, that the National Rifle Association wouldn't be doing too well — what with the initial outcry over its silence and the ensuing outcry over the gun lobby's brief statement late Tuesday. But you would be wrong.
It may be difficult to look at this many firearms at once after the Newtown shooting, but just think about it: They were all returned, in what's being called an instant gun-buyback boom, and in one of the most dangerous places in America.
Four and a half days after a 20-year-old man carried legal guns into a Connecticut elementary school and killed 20 small children, the National Rifle Association spoke out on the Newtown massacre with a brief statement late Tuesday afternoon.
The gun lobby will soon break its public silence on the school shooting, Fox News reports. Here's an early indication of its plan.
Gun control and gun rights have instantly come to dominate the American conversation, but the biggest gun lobby in America has decided to sit this one out — at least on the Internet.
In the wake of the Newtown school shooting — and a year full of gun violence — it's worth remembering that the NRA's favorite laws are passing.
Bummer. You won't be able "super soaker" water gun to Democratic and Republican National Convention this year, but hey, that concealed 9mm pistol in your jacket is totally fine in the states hosting the conventions, North Carolina and Florida.
In the wake of his seemingly threatening comments about President Obama, Ted Nugent told Glenn Beck Wednesday that there's an important addition to everything violent he ever says: "... in November at the voter booth."
Most Republican voters have closed all tabs to the right of Mitt Romney, but conservative politicians won't let him maximize his window.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is well known for loving guns and threatening vigilante violence, so it's pretty easy to guess what he'd think of Florida's Stand Your Ground law that has come under criticism after the Trayvon Martin shooting.
He's not the next George W. Bush, he's the next Chuck Norris
White House extends an olive branch; gun rights activists sniff
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