Sentences with phrase «powerful gun lobby»

I believe that politicians have been bought off by an overly powerful gun lobby and they're selling us out.

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.Oh, how...

The killing will continue because of America's terrifyingly powerful gun lobby.

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.

And Trump has often played into the powerful gun lobby group's conceit that any reform of gun laws is a slippery slope that will inevitably lead to the total withdrawal of the right to bear arms.

While the shooting has not led to major changes from the White House or the Republican - led Congress, it did - at least briefly - prompt Trump to declare that he would stand up to the powerful gun lobby.

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, Florida.

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,...

While there is reasonable scholarly debate about whether the Second Amendment actually protects all Americans» individual right to bear arms and prohibits stricter forms of gun control, the reality is the Supreme Court and US lawmakers — backed by the powerful gun lobby, particularly the NRA — widely agree that the Second Amendment does put barriers on how far restrictions can go.

Since the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month, renewed calls for remedies to firearms violence have led to sweeping consumer boycotts and unprecedented moves by corporate America to distance itself from the powerful gun lobby.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas students have repeatedly called out Rubio for taking money from the powerful gun lobby group.

While the shooting has not led to major changes from the White House or the Republican - led Congress, it did — at least briefly — prompt Trump to declare that he would stand up to the powerful gun lobby.

Trump is set to address the NRA again Friday, just two months after declaring that he would stand up to the powerful gun lobby following a deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla..

Trump told governors gathered in D.C. that he would take action to ban the sale of bump stocks without Congress, and said it's «OK» to push back against the NRA «every once as a while,» as the powerful gun lobbying group fights calls to enact stricter gun control laws after the shooting.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas students have repeatedly called out Rubio for taking money from the powerful gun lobby group.

Clinton told a somber Long Island audience today that as president she would stand up to the powerful gun lobby.

Earlier Monday, Clinton held a panel discussion on reducing gun violence, telling a somber audience in Port Washington that as president she would stand up to the powerful gun lobby.

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.

Miss Sloane stars Jessica Chastain (Crimson Peak) as lobbyist seeking for tighter federal laws regulating firearms, who faces off against the powerful gun lobby.

EuropaCorp has released a brand new image from director John Madden's (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) gun control drama Miss Sloane, which stars Jessica Chastain as a lobbyist who faces off against the powerful gun lobby when fighting for tighter firearms regulations.

An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

In the heated atmosphere of the United States, it is a brave thing to launch so direct an attack on the powerful gun lobby — even if perhaps a little less brave since Michael Moore's

February 28, 2018 • In a freewheeling talk with Republican and Democratic lawmakers on curtailing gun violence, President Trump appeared to throw his support behind efforts that are opposed by the powerful gun lobby.

@Emma4Change and the children who marched through the city streets last weekend simply refused to accept their parents» defeatist assumption that even a 75 percent majority in want of stricter firearm legislation (according to an NPR poll released last week) was impotent against the wishes of an all - powerful gun lobby.