The NRA just had an amazing victory in defeating a bill to require universal background checks on gun purchases — something it endorsed 15 years ago — and yet the speakers at its 142nd annual convention in Houston sounded awfully bitter. Here's how Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, and more defended freedom against those sissies in the White House.
What do you get when Time magazine asks celebrities to write about the greatness of other celebrities? The annual "Time 100," of course! But you also get a lot of terribly obnoxious back-patting, most of which, this year, is guardedly self aggrandizing.
Despite a brief spike in interest after the Sandy Hook shootings, Americans care less about gun control than ever, even as gun control passes in Connecticut and stumbles through the Senate. Sounds like a great time for the NRA to stage another PR stunt! And that's exactly what the NRA is doing on Tuesday.
We were denied the sure-to-be-explosive on-camera face-off between NRA chief Wayne LaPierre and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, but they still fired shots at each other during their solo segments on the Sunday talk shows. Elsewhere, Rand Paul talked about his feelings on marijuana. Hint: He's a bit more mellow than you'd expect.
Gun-rights advocates appear to be on the brink of killing a renewed assault weapons ban on Capitol Hill. But the movement's post-Newtown victory is hardly complete — and success may be a high water mark in the political unity of gun proponents.
All that attention the National Rifle Association leader has gotten since the Newtown shooting might be getting to him.
Gun victims will get a vote, but not the one an overwhelming majority of Americans say they want. That's because the NRA is winning the shouting match on Capitol Hill, and it may have just squashed cooperation in favor of a less strict bill.
During Sen. Diane Feinstein's hearing on a new assault weapon ban, the NRA account returned to the point that regular old handguns and "things other than firearms" have been used in mass shootings. Wait a minute, guys: A handgun is a firearm.
The National Rifle Association has no patience for gun-grabbers' anecdotes — yes, one crazy person with a gun can kill a lot of people, but most gun owners are not murderous sociopaths. Instead, what the NRA likes is cold, hard hypotheticals.
LaPierre stuck it straight to Obama, calling the President a master of "deception" on more than one occasion — and accusing Obama, falsely, of doing "nothing... with protecting one child in any school in this country."
Americans don't just need guns to fight criminals anymore, says the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre, Americans need more guns to fight the weather.
Wayne LaPierre got into it with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace; Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey come to the aid of Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel.
Michael Bloomberg knows how to throw one heck of a metaphorical right hand. In his latest move in the fight for stricter gun control laws, the New York City Mayor's Demand a Plan initiative released their Super Bowl ad Sunday morning and it goes right after the NRA.
"I am convinced that as these things are discussed, that we're going to come out about where we have come out in the past," NRA president David Keene said Thursday. But the NRA is not where it was in the past, not even the recent past. Specifically, 1999.
Gun advocates spent their Wednesday fighting on Capitol Hill for the right of female civilians to carry semi-automatic assault weapons while their compatriots on the right are mourning the decision to allow female soldiers to carry guns on the battlefield.
The two may be sworn adversaries, but they wouldn't quite admit as much in sworn testimony at the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings on gun violence, telling each other that they looked good.
His remarks came minutes after former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords implored the Committee to "be courageous" in addressing gun violence.
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on gun violence in America today, and advocates from both sides — and their rivals on the committee — got plenty of opportunity to speak out.
The U.S. Senate will hold its first formal hearing on gun control since the Sandy Hook school shooting, and there's the potential for some heated showdowns between the participants — Wayne LaPierre included.
Wayne LaPierre will say some controversial things in his testimony before Congress Wednesday, and while he's said some shocking things since the Newtown massacre sparked a gun control debate, the archives show that LaPierre has actually toned it down in the two decades he's been the face of the National Rifle Association.
The National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre will testify before the Senate about gun violence on January 30, and it should be fun to watch, because LaPierre never fails to put on a good show.
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.
Jay Carney today called the National Rifle Association and their latest lobbying campaign centering on the president's daughters "repugnant" and "cowardly," but according to a new poll, Americans hate the NRA less than the entertainment industry
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.
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 Meet the Press host is actually under investigation for showing a 30-round magazine to the NRA's Wayne LaPierre this weekend, and the prospect of Gregory going to prison is actually making a lot of conservatives very happy.
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.
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.
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."
White House extends an olive branch; gun rights activists sniff
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