Sentences with phrase «from gun industry»
(No retailer has ever sold a «smart gun» in the country, in part because of pressure from the gun industry and lobby.
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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.
Nonetheless, the industry is also facing great pressure from the gun control lobby.
We'll discuss the situation with a smart gun advocate, an entrepreneur, and a representative from the firearms industry.
President Bush sits down to sign the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which shielded the firearms industry from civil lawsuits brought by victims of gun crimes.
In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.
In an industry gun - shy over adverse publicity from animal cruelty scandals, the extroverted Italian courted attention.
The most significant spending on the pro-gun side, however, has come from the National Shooting Sports Foundation — a Newtown - headquartered gun industry trade association that lobbied aggressively against the state gun control legislation.
According to the Daily News, Amedore accepted more contributions from the gun lobby, including the National Rifle Association and the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a leading firearms industry trade association, than any other state lawmaker.
Leah Barrett, Executive Director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence said opposition to the SAFE Act is influenced by the gun industry lobby, and said the acts of protest from local officials do not surprise her.
In the wake of what is now the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history last October, Image Comics has announced a bumper anthology of comics about the trauma of gun violence in America — and with it, contributors from some of the biggest artists and writers in the comics industry like Gail Simone, Neil Gaiman,...
Her new tell - all on the mortgage industry exposes so many of the lending industry's favorite frauds, every loan officer from Seattle to Miami is going to be gunning for her!
Seeing how the industry has not done a lot of diversification in game genres in recent years, removing light - gun games from locations leaves the video - only side with pretty much driving and music games on the new side.
Gaming became increasingly aware of its growing legacy: in an industry obsessed with the cutting edge and beyond, there was a greater value attached to the past, and a more sophisticated appreciation of what games can do, aside from big - budget guns and sports, both violent and virtual.
The studio contains a mix of experienced game industry veterans, with dozens games published and millions of copies sold, and young guns from all around the world.
This is the same NPR which permitted book excerpts from Laurie David featuring a false accolade about Ross Gelbspan, the same radio network which allowed Gelbspan to prominently mention his favorite leaked memo «accusation» bits where zero time was allotted for rebuttal, the same radio network which interviewed him more than one time, and the same radio network which years later featured Al Gore's bit about the infamous «smoking gun leaked industry memo phrase» «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,» where the NPR writer offered not one word of curiosity about that awkward phrase.
The big guns in the skeptical community are Steve McIntyre and Anthony Watts, and no one has demonstrated one smidgeon of evidence that they are on the take, from anyone at all, much less the oil industry or powerful industrial concerns.
So, what we have here from Bud Ward is little more than half the story, with the basic idea of trusting Gelbspan as some kind of highly regarded investigative journalist who found smoking gun proof that skeptic climate scientists are shills paid by the fossil fuel industry to lie to the public.
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.
If a city commission passes an ordinance regarding guns or ammunition, the law forcibly removes them from office; requires them to personally pay the legal costs of the industry group that seeks to overturn the reform, no matter how many of our residents demanded the reform; imposes a $ 5,000 fine personally; and, the law is invalidated anyway.»
The games industry has a controversial symbiotic relationship with arms manufacturers, who look to games as a way of promoting firearms, with some companies distancing themselves from gun makers in recent years.
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