Sentences with phrase «national gun lobby»

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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.

But Australia also had fewer barriers than the United States to enacting gun control: There is no constitutional right to bear arms, and there are no pro-gun lobbying groups with the influence of the National Rifle Association.

National Harbor, Maryland (CNN) The head of the biggest gun lobby in the US has accused Democrats of pushing a «socialist» agenda to deprive gun owners of their weapons, in an uncompromising speech just a week after 17 people died in the Florida school shooting.

Some researchers have blamed the National Rifle Association, the firearms industry's powerful lobbying group, for blocking the government's ability to study guns and gun crimes.

This week, Trump stunned his party and the National Rifle Association (NRA) gun lobby by coming out in favor of tighter gun controls.

President Donald Trump is set to give an address to the National Rifle Association just two months after he declared that he would stand up to the powerful gun lobby following a deadly school shooting in Parkland,...

A year ago, the nation's most powerful gun lobby was riding high: The millions the National Rifle Association had spent to help elect Donald Trump, one of the nation's most gun - friendly presidents, had paid off, and members were hopeful that more firearms restrictions would soon be eased.

Given everything that's happened of late, the Senate rejecting gun safety legislation appears to make so sense whatsoever — unless, of course, we consider the continuing and maddening congressional deadlock, the sinful lobbying powers of the National Rifle Association (NRA), and the deeply - felt belief among many in the American public that more guns — not fewer guns — will keep us all safe.

He announced the state will create a new website for students to lobby their state and national electeds on gun control, and also touted a bill working its way through the state legislature that would ban bump stocks — devices that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at rates comparable to automatic rifles.

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.

Obama accused the powerful pro-gun rights lobby group of peddling an «imaginary fiction» that he said has distorted the national debate about gun violence.

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.

--------------------------- The National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit Friday against Governor Cuomo & the State Department of Financial Services, the NRA Accuses accusing them of coercing banks and insurance companies to withhold services to the gun lobbying group.

The National Rifle Association, the nation's largest gun - rights lobbying group, did not immediately return an email seeking comment.

Officials of the pro-gun lobby, which for years has stopped congressional gun control measures cold, blamed the national propensity for violence — the Tucsons, the Auroras and the Newtown tragedy on the appetite for violent video games and music videos that venerate gun play and murder.

On Sunday, Clinton told worshipers at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn's Canarsie neighborhood that there was a «big difference» between her and Sanders on the issue, and that he «has voted with the National Rifle Association and the big gun lobby.»

This week, President Donald Trump expressed an openness to expanding gun legislation while urging Republican lawmakers not to fear the National Rifle Association gun lobby.

The National Rifle Association, the country's most powerful lobby group for gun rights, said Thursday that it would support an effort to restrict bump stocks — an unusual move for a group that has long pushed back on efforts to impose new firearms regulations.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- The National Rifle Association says the secret negotiations and lightning - fast passage of New York's tough new gun control laws squelched the powerful gun lobby's ability to mount opposition.

Trump tweeted that he planned to meet with the National Rifle Association, the nation's largest gun rights and lobbying group, to discuss the issue.

But as he was digging into the study, his source of funding came under attack from the National Rifle Association (NRA), a powerful lobbying group based in Fairfax, Va., that supports gun ownership.

Survivors of the Parkland shooting quickly became the faces of a national conversation on gun control, and are lobbying lawmakers for more restrictive gun laws — including a ban on assault - style rifles and higher - capacity magazines.

We've been in a «do - nothing» mode for years, paralyzed by the National Rifle Association's stranglehold on elected officials and the gun lobby's mass marketing of assault - style weapons as a constitutional right necessary for self - protection.

Hours after the Stoneman Douglas shooting, the organization launched a national #VoteCourage effort to encourage people to support candidates in November who will «stand up to the gun lobby and fight for safer communities.»