INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The first sign that he was coming was the squeal from a middle-aged woman sitting across the aisle in skintight red, white and blue pants and “U.S.A.” earrings. Like thousands of others who had waited hours in line for a seat at the National Rifle Assn.’s annual Leadership Forum on Friday, she was
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Whenever there is a mass shooting in the United States, it seems as if a memo goes out to Republican members of Congress so that they are all on the same page when asked about the prospect of reforming the country’s gun laws. Sometimes they say they don’t want to politicize a tragedy, and other
Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem drew mockery from gun rights opponents when she told an NRA audience their organization isn’t “only made up of old white guys” — then C-SPAN cameras cut to a crowd shot. Noem was a speaker at Friday’s NRA-ILA Leadership Forum in Indiana, where she extolled the group’s “diversity” in a
Detroit Free Press It seems 169 years of historic, and mostly successful, political leadership, means nothing to the new Michigan GOP Chairwoman Kristina Karamo. Ms. Karamo nows sees the MI GOP as “essentially a startup,” “we’re building the party from the ground up” because she says “Things are … worse than I expected.” Sounds like someone
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem. Scott Olson/Getty Images Redeem now South Dakota’s governor said her nearly 2-year-old granddaughter has several guns. Kristi Noem rebuked Democrats for their position on increasing gun safety at an NRA event. Noem signed an executive order to “protect the God-given right to keep and bear arms,” she said. Top editors
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Former President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in Palm Beach, Fla. | AP NASHVILLE — Donald Trump stood before Republican National Committee donors on Saturday to make his case for a return to the White House, arguing that he deserves another chance to finish a dramatic party transformation that
The Republican governor tells the audience at a National Rifle Association lobbying leadership forum in Indiana that her grandchild, Addie, has several guns. South Dakota’s Republican governor Kristi Noem at a National Rifle Association (NRA) lobbying leadership forum in Indiana (AP) South Dakota’s Republican governor Kristi Noem on Friday bragged before a crowd that her
The saying goes, “God created men; Samuel Colt made them equal.” In 21st-century America, women also figure into that marketing ploy and gun politics. Former Ambassador and Republican Presidential Candidate Nikki Haley displayed her second amendment credentials to National Rifle Association members. “I’m a concealed weapons permit holder myself,” said Haley. As did South Dakota Governor Kristi
x Noem: The media would have us believe that the NRA is only made up of old white guys.. But there are a lot of other people. A lot of diversity in the NRA…*camera switches to audience* pic.twitter.com/Tten37Yq9M — Acyn (@Acyn) April 14, 2023 NOEM: “Now, I probably don’t look like a traditional NRA member.
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — From big guns to small ones, the National Rifle Association’s annual convention lived up to its billing with 14 acres of guns spread across the Indiana Convention Center this weekend. Lantac is one of the 600 exhibitors on hand. The company makes rifles and gun accessories. One of it’s employees, Adam Ward,
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Shots fired! DeSantis attack ad calling Trump a ‘COWARD’ on gun control dropped RIGHT before former President’s NRA speech – and warned he ‘doesn’t deserve a second chance’ Never Back Down super PAC, which supports Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, released an ad attacking former President Trump as a ‘gun-grabber’ Ad dropped just before Trump’s speech
On Tuesday, April 18, the Texas House Select Committee on Community Safety will hold public hearings on a number of anti-gun proposals, including the following bills listed below: House Bill 22 (Rep. Joe Moody-D) & House Bill 106 (Rep. Diego Bernal-D) requires federal firearm licensed dealers to report multiple firearms transactions – sales that are conducted after a state and federal records check – to
A clip of Republican Governor of South Dakota Kristi Noem saying the National Rifle Association (NRA) is not “only made up of old white guys,” before another camera shot shows predominantly white men in the crowd, has gone viral on Twitter. The governor was speaking at the NRA’s annual leadership forum, which took place on
So far this year, according to Everytown USA’s #NotAnAccident index, there have been “70 unintentional shootings by children, resulting in 29 deaths and 42 injuries.” Just last week, a father in Sacramento, California was arrested for child endangerment and illegal storage of a firearm after his three-year-old son accidentally shot and injured himself with a
Varun Nikore, who has been organizing Asian American and Pacific Islander voters for 25 years, calls what’s going to happen Sunday in San Francisco’s Portsmouth Square the next big test of the community’s growing political power. After seeing national AAPI turnout jump 10 percentage points between the 2016 and 2020 election — more than any other racial
Republican presidential hopefuls court pro-gun voters at the annual NRA convention Link Copied! Republican presidential hopefuls step over each other to support gun rights at the annual NRA convention. This comes in the wake of several recent mass shootings in the U.S. Kristen Holmes reports from Indianapolis, Indiana. Kim Brunhuber discusses the issue with Brandon