Sorry, NRA: Gun-safety message dominates in 2018 campaign ads
Candidates aren’t backing down on gun safety this year.
By Eric Boehlert - August 15, 2018Candidates aren’t backing down on gun safety this year.
By Eric Boehlert - August 15, 2018Sen. Joni Ernst pushes the NRA’s agenda — but she insists that this has nothing to do with the millions the gun extremist group spends on her behalf.
By Oliver Willis - August 09, 2018After nearly 70 people were wounded from shootings in Chicago over the weekend, a local trauma surgeon spoke out against policies enacted by NRA-linked politicians like Mike Pence that enable the massive casualties.
By Oliver Willis - August 07, 2018The NRA is hurting financially — and may be forced to shut down NRA TV, its propaganda network — thanks to a wave of activism led by the Parkland shooting survivors.
By Oliver Willis - August 02, 2018Trump said he’s consulting the NRA on how to deal with 3D-printed guns. A survivor of the Las Vegas mass shooting slammed him for listening to pro-gun extremists instead of crime victims.
By Oliver Willis - August 01, 2018Former homeland security adviser Tom Bossert shows that loyalty to Trump means downplaying serious threats to our democracy.
By Tommy Christopher - July 22, 2018Maria Butina — a key figure connecting Russia to the the NRA and Republican politicians nationwide — was just charged for spying on behalf of Russia.
By Eric Boehlert - July 16, 2018Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh earned praise from the NRA’s propaganda arm this week for his extremist views on assault weapons.
By Oliver Willis - July 11, 2018As part of its ongoing crusade to defend Trump and attack his detractors, NRA-TV is now complaining that facilities used to hold children taken from their families are ‘too nice.’
By Oliver Willis - June 23, 2018The NRA has repeatedly opposed laws restricting gun violence in Maryland, but a would-be murderer who targeted Sens. Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris said the state’s laws blocked him from getting a gun.
By Oliver Willis - June 14, 2018In the face of Republican inaction, the American Medical Association endorses a common-sense agenda to prevent gun violence.
By Eric Boehlert - June 13, 2018The NRA has been caught removing its ‘grades’ for politicians — so their ‘enemies’ can’t use the ratings against them in campaigns.
By Oliver Willis - June 12, 2018Florida gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam described himself as a ‘proud NRA sellout.’ Now, a new exposé shows his office failed to run background checks on thousands who applied for concealed permits.
By Oliver Willis - June 09, 2018A hoax phone call sent police to the home of Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg after the NRA, Republicans, and right-wing media attacked him for months.
By Oliver Willis - June 05, 2018The NRA desperately tried — and failed— to hijack the ‘Wear Orange’ gun safety campaign. Teen survivors of the Parkland school massacre called them out for their disgraceful actions.
By Oliver Willis - June 01, 2018Trump was utterly clueless when addressing parents whose children were killed in the recent Santa Fe High School shooting.
By Eric Boehlert - June 01, 2018Trump — cold and clueless about how to comfort people in pain — expects to have ‘fun’ meeting with school shooting victims and their families.
By Oliver Willis - May 31, 2018After Dick’s Sporting Goods ceased sales of military-style assault rifles, the NRA warned that the company was doomed. But that prediction was flat wrong.
By Oliver Willis - May 30, 2018NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch thinks the best way for the country to respond to school shootings is to stop reimbursing medical services for low-income women.
By Caroline Orr - May 23, 2018After the mass shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas, students from around the state took out a full-page newspaper ad to shame NRA-aligned Gov. Greg Abbott for his inaction.
By Eric Boehlert - May 22, 2018Sen. Bernie Sanders made it quite clear where the blame lies regarding the epidemic of gun violence in America.
By Tommy Christopher - May 20, 2018The NRA spin is even getting hard for Fox to swallow.
By Tommy Christopher - May 20, 2018Responding to the shooting at Santa Fe High, Houston chief of police Art Acevedo offered a blistering indictment of politicians who refuse to buck the NRA and take action on gun safety.
By Oliver Willis - May 19, 2018Jason Chaffetz, the Republican congressman turned Fox News contributor, desperately tried to make sure the latest deadly school shooting isn’t about guns.
By Eric Boehlert - May 18, 2018Mike Pence wants the victims and families of the Santa Fe school shooting to believe he stands by them, but exactly two weeks earlier, he told the NRA he and Trump are their ‘friends.’
By Oliver Willis - May 18, 2018A new report by the Senate Judiciary Committee concludes that the Kremlin used the NRA ‘as a means of accessing and assisting’ the Trump campaign.
By Caroline Orr - May 16, 2018Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Mary Fallin vetoed an NRA-backed gun bill on Friday, dealing a major blow to the gun group.
By Caroline Orr - May 12, 2018‘When it comes to consoling or helping, or even reaching out to victims, or people who are assisting victims, he has nothing to say.’
By Eric Boehlert - May 09, 2018The NRA and its members attacked a popular Dallas restaurant after it called for common sense gun regulations. But patrons rallied around the establishment, and the owner has paid it forward.
By Eric Boehlert - May 08, 2018At the NRA’s annual convention, Trump used murdered children as an example to push for more guns. The mothers of those children slammed him for his ‘offensive’ remarks.
By Oliver Willis - May 05, 2018