Month: May 2024

A former producer on The Apprentice, the reality show Donald Trump hosted prior to going into politics, recounted that the then New York real estate mogul used a racial slur in a recorded conversation. Trump used the word when discussing Kwame Jackson, a Black finalist on the show who at the time was working at

Regulators argued insurers might face legal exposure for doing business with a gun group during an era of mass shootings − and the NRA had no business peddling insurance. Show Caption Hide Caption Trump to NRA crowd: We will never let anyone ‘trample’ on Second Amendment At the NRA convention, President Trump announced his administration

FIRST ON FOX: A Texas Republican is taking aim at President Biden as an enemy of Americans’ gun rights with a resolution he’s introducing Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Roger Williams, chairman of the House Small Business Committee, says his resolution highlights support for the Second Amendment’s “guarantee that the right of

by Jeff Gross, contributing writer Photo: Author 46 to 24. That was the final result of the “forced” “Safe Storage” bill for firearms when taken up for a vote on the floor of the RI House of Representatives as they approved legislation sponsored by Rep. Justine Caldwell and Sen. Pamela J. Lauria to “require safe

In 2018, I did something most people wouldn’t dare do. While making a play about guns in America, I took a group of high school students to the NRA annual meeting in our hometown of Dallas. What we saw and experienced there changed the course of my life. Christian nationalism wasn’t just on display —

Rhode Island politicians who control the Legislature think you should keep your firearm under lock and key, but the criminals breaking into homes will get to play by a different set of rules. That is why H.7373A, the Burglar Protection Act, is dangerous. When seconds matter, as they do in self-defense situations, anti-gun lawmakers want you to

Dauphin County will give the National Rifle Association (NRA) and a former county commissioner a total of $110,000 toward the Great American Outdoor Show, which the gun rights advocacy group hosts annually in Harrisburg. The Dauphin County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday voted 2-1 to approve the payment. Commissioners George Hartwick (D) and Mike Pries

A leading gun control group accused the National Rifle Association of acting to “fan the flames of extremism” by choosing former congressman Bob Barr as its new president—citing a long-acknowledged speech to a white supremacist group Barr gave while serving as a U.S. representative from Georgia. “The fact that the NRA board of directors handpicked

Early this morning, the Illinois General Assembly adjourned its spring session. While a number of anti-gun bills were introduced, none were passed. The NRA thanks all our members and fellow Second Amendment advocates who engaged with their legislators to oppose gun control. The General Assembly will reconvene in the fall for a veto session. Please

The National Rifle Association’s Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) is proud to announce its full endorsement of Governor Spencer Cox in the 2024 Utah Primary Election as he seeks re-election for a second term as Governor of the State of Utah. Governor Cox received an “A+” rating from NRA-PVF, the highest grade possible, for being a

Carl P. Leubsdorf  |  The Dallas Morning News (TNS) Show Caption Hide Caption Trump’s fate could be in jury’s hands today Lawyers in Donald Trump’s hush money trial have sparred over evidence and witnesses as they made their closing arguments to jurors who will decide whether the Republican will be the first former American president

Parents of the Uvalde school shooting victims and gun reform advocates tried and failed to get the legislature to raise the age to buy assault weapons. They say the fight isn’t over yet — but they acknowledge that getting any gun reform legislation passed is an uphill battle. Since Uvalde, Texas has had several more

The candidates for U.S. Representative – District 4 this election cycle are Randy Feenstra (R – Hull, incumbent), Kevin Virgil (R – Sutherland) and Ryan Melton (D – Nevada). Their Q&As are below. Name: Randy Feenstra City/town: Hull Candidate for: Iowa’s Fourth Congressional District Explain who you are: I am a conservative from Hull and

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) suffered two bruising days on Capitol Hill last week during oversight hearings attempting to get to the bottom of a fatal raid and other recent enforcement overreaches involving peaceable Americans. Many hard questions were asked but few clear answers emerged, as ATF and its apologists insisted

Authoritarian leaders train and condition the public to follow and obey them -– or at the very least to not oppose them. This training takes various forms, such as threats of violence and acts of intimidation, propaganda with an emphasis on disinformation and misinformation, generating a state of constant precarity, fear, and death anxieties (what

A Chicago mother who called 911 after two masked men broke into her home reportedly had to wait more than four hours before police officers arrived. The woman, identified only as Michelle, was told during her initial call to wait outside her home and that a unit had been dispatched. After five additional calls to