Sentences with phrase «nra gun industry»
Well Bill, I guess I do not see your group / religion as any more than a powerful lobby group, no different than oil and gas, defence industries, tobacco, NRA gun industry, etc..
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
Trump to take center stage at the NRA convention as the gun industry faces a wave of backlash, activism and weak demand
Signs are emerging that companies and investors are starting to push back against the gun industry and its main lobbying group, the National Rifle Association (NRA), in the wake of last week's Florida high school shooting.
Its NRA card was also highlighted in a New York Times opinion piece that called on the financial industry to exert its «leverage over the gun industry,» seeing as politicians — many of whom are funded by the NRA — continue to refrain from doing so.
As the NRA and gun manufacturers dumped millions into Trump and the Republican Party in 2016, Clinton may have been a boon to the industry as president.
The NRA announced support for regulating «bump stocks» — a surprising shift for the leading gun industry group, which in recent years has resolutely opposed any gun regulations.
The largest teachers union in the country is ending its relationship with Wells Fargo because the bank does business with the gun industry and the NRA.
Just like banking regulations after the Great Recession; just like tobacco regulations after decades of the industry lying; just like decades of the asbestos industry lying; just like the soda industry continues to lie about fructose today; just like the airline industry didn't change policies on protecting the cabin until after 9/11 (the first US hijacking was in the 1960's); just like the gun industry through the lobbyists like the NRA continues to drag their feet... The force for change will have to be from the BOTTOM UP.
J. Craig Williams: Stephen, what is the makeup behind the NRA, I mean you hear this amorphous term the NRA and is it really made up of the Joe Hunter that goes out and gets doves and deer on opening season day or is the NRA monetary interest largely influenced by the gun industry?
The NRA support many public figures — don't vote for them, no politician who is funded by a gun industry lobby is going to advocate gun control.