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Markey outdraws ‘young gun’ Gardner in NRA endorsement showdown

By | 09.17.10 | 9:35 am

The National Rifle Association is bestowing its influential endorsement on Congresswoman Betsy Markey, according to the National Review. That surely comes as a shot to the chest for Markey’s Fourth District opponent, Republican Cory Gardner. Markey is a proud…

Udall MIA on effort to close gun-show loophole

By | 04.19.10 | 4:14 pm

There were calls to close it in the wake of the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School. There were calls to close it in 2007 following the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech. So far, though, Congress has done nothing to address the so-called gun-show loophole, which allows unlicensed vendors to sell firearms without performing background checks on the buyers. That kind of lawmaker inaction hasn’t gone unnoticed by the family members of some of the gun-show loophole victims.

Why have we stopped talking about guns?

By | 06.14.09 | 7:59 am

You know by now that in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, an elderly white supremacist and anti-Semite named James W. von Brunn allegedly walked into the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum with a .22-caliber rifle and killed a security guard before being brought down himself. He’s 88 years old, with a long record of hatred and paranoid fantasies about the Illuminati and a Global Zionist state. How bitter the bile that has curdled for so many decades.

Locked and Loaded: Bullets New Addition to National Park Experience?

By | 02.25.08 | 3:08 pm

Photobucket If the Bush Administration, the National Rifle Association (NRA) and 47 U.S. Senators get their way, you might be able to take a loaded gun into national parks and wildlife refuges. What does the National Park Service (NPS) manage?

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