Sentences with phrase «gun group»

Still, the arrangement provides gun groups with some ammunition, and their ethical concerns aren't entirely off target.

But she also has principles, and leaves her top firm for the opposition when a powerful gun group asks her to devise messaging to turn women against universal background checks for gun ownership.

On May eighth the troops mercilessly shot the people at the door of the Cathedral with machine guns and secondly the national security forces machine - gunned a group of students in front of the Venezuelan Embassy.

Bloomberg is set to endorse Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Tom Barrett, who's also the mayor of Milwaukee and is part of the New York City chief executive's Mayors Against Illegal Guns group sources confirm.

Still, both legislators and group leaders agreed that the influence of the NRA and other gun groups stemmed from their credible threat of mobilising essentially single - issue voters for or against a candidate.

Members of local gun groups may be aware of the new mandate for pistol recertification, but many average gun owners are not.

According to Volokh, many experts agree that a victory for the District of Columbia, i.e., a ruling that the District can constitutionally ban handguns, will hurt the eventual Democratic Presidential nominee by activating strong, Republican - leaning gun groups.

Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns group is launching a six - figure media campaign today to push for background checks at gun shows.

Last weekend, Delta scrapped a program for NRA members that provided discounted flights to members who planned to travel to Atlanta for one of the gun group's major conferences.

The list of companies terminating their partnerships with the National Rifle Association is growing as public outcry against the gun group escalates following the deadliest mass shooting at a public high school in U.S. history.

Delta and United Airlines said Saturday they will end group airfare discounts for NRA members and they were in the process of informing the gun group of this decision.

The gun group may be even further financially entangled with the Trump campaign.

But since Thursday, those companies and several others have announced they have ended or will soon end their corporate partnerships with the gun group.

The NRA's ties to Cambridge Analytica were buried in a September 2016 Guardian story that detailed the gun group's eagerness to see Clinton defeated and deny her the opportunity to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat.

On the eve of the march, Colion Noir, a host on NRATV, an online video channel produced by the gun group, lashed out at the Parkland students, saying that «no one would know your names» if someone with a weapon had stopped the gunman at their school.

They're 11 games below.500 and must catch an impressive Nuggets team that added Mason Plumlee to its young, run - and - gun group.

The president abandoned his promise to work for gun control measures opposed by the NRA, bowing to the gun group and embracing its agenda of armed teachers and incremental improvements to the background check system.

NRA boss Wayne LaPierre runs a gun group now backs mostly Republicans — and is spending more money than ever to get them elected.

In each of those instances, the candidate the gun group backed came out victorious.

Putnam said he couldn't have signed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act as it was, though he added that if he were to be elected Governor, the self - proclaimed «NRA sellout» would enforce the law that has led to a lawsuit from the gun group, and a ritual defenestration of House Speaker Richard Corcoran for pushing the gun control bill through.

We need to make sure the gun groups support us.

Contributions and grants in 2013 totaled $ 96.4 million, up 11.5 % from the $ 86.4 million raised the previous year, according to the latest financial disclosure form filed by the gun group with the IRS.

The decision came after a slew of city politicians criticized the century - old restaurant and the gun group over the April 12 event.

PARKLAND, Fla. - The troubled teen authorities say killed 17 people at a Florida high school excelled in an air - rifle marksmanship program supported by a grant from the National Rifle Association Foundation, part of a multimillion - dollar effort by the gun group to support youth shooting clubs.