David Keene, the recently elected President of the National Rifle Association, sat down with Washington Journal to discuss the NRA’s role in elections past and present. With callers chiming in, the topics ranged from current efforts to ban magazines, which players already on the field for 2012 have records supporting the Second Amendment, and what role women play in the nation’s oldest civil rights organization.
In their latest voter education project, NRA is daring you to Trigger the Vote in 2009 and 2010. According to the NRA, upwards of 22 million gun owners may not be registered to vote.
Though McDonald‘s impact on gun laws in the Keystone State will likely be minimal, several of our lawmakers have been involved in the case so far.
At a recent campaign stop in Pennsylvania, Barack Obama indicated that a primary motivation for not supporting gun bans at the moment was the fact that he doesn’t currently have the votes in Congress to pass them.
We’ve known for years that HSUS wants to ban hunting – and they are willing to patiently take one step at a time to do it. Here is their plan to do it federally.
Last week, we secured a major victory in favor of an amendment that would repeal Washington DC’s draconian gun laws. Now that bill moves to the House, and Nancy Pelosi is trying to twist the arm of Cong. Patrick Murphy to vote against it.
Today, the courts temporarily halted the voter identification law we posted about earlier this year. Their concern was about the implementation of the law by the administration as opposed to the constitutionality of the process of showing photo identification.