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Daniel Defense: Company that made Uvalde AR-15 used toddlers in gun advert

Daniel Defense guns were also used in 2017 Las Vegas massacre, the worst mass shooting in modern US history

The Independent UK

Editorial: If gun control won't work, at least take away gun makers' liability protection

With more than 300 million firearms in Americans’ hands — enough for every man, woman and child to have one — it does no good anymore to rant and rave about gun control. The National Rifle Association owns enough members of Congress to block meaningful measures and is no doubt…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

NRA opens gun convention in Texas days after deadly school shooting

Former US President Donald Trump and other leading Republicans will be among speakers at the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) annual convention, which begins in Texas on Friday.

Evening Standard

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How lawmakers in thrall to the NRA stifle gun safety laws

Powerful lobbying groups spent nearly $5m last year to expand gun rights while limiting curbs on who can have a firearm and how they can carry it

The Guardian - US

NRA opens gun convention in Texas after school massacre

The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention in Houston on Friday, and leaders of the powerful gun-rights lobbying group are gearing up to “reflect on” — and deflect any blame for — the deadly shooting earlier this week of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in…

The Independent UK

Texas governor Greg Abbott to skip NRA convention and visit Uvalde instead amid pressure over pro-guns stance

National Rifle Association’s spokesperson says governor will pre-record message

The Independent UK

Texas Gov. Abbott going to Uvalde — not NRA — on Friday

AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott is returning to Uvalde on Friday, and will skip the National Rifle Association convention in Houston.

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The meetings go on for the NRA, and guns are allowed, but not during Trump’s appearance

WASHINGTON — After at least 21 people, 19 of them children, were killed in a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, the National Rifle Association said its deepest sympathies were with the families and victims “involved in this horrific and evil crime.”

Tribune News Service

Houston mayor says NRA should cancel convention this weekend

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said the National Rifle Association should postpone its convention in the city this weekend out of respect for the victims of the nation’s second deadliest school shooting this week in Uvalde, Texas.

Tribune News Service

The NRA says its Houston convention will 'reflect on' the Uvalde school shooting

The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention Friday, and its leaders are gearing up to "reflect on" — and deflect any blame for — the deadly shooting earlier this week in Uvalde, Texas.

WEKU

Why gun control laws don't pass Congress, despite majority public support and repeated outrage over mass shootings

With the carnage in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York in May 2022, calls have begun again for Congress to enact gun control. Since the 2012 massacre of 20 children and four staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, legislation introduced in response to mass killings has…

The Conversation

What is the NRA and where is its annual meeting?

The National Rifle Association (NRA) was founded in 1871 by a group of ex-US Army officers who were aghast at the exceedingly poor marksmanship of soldiers who fought for the United States during the American Civil War.

The Independent UK

The NRA wasn’t always opposed to gun restrictions

At first, the group was mainly concerned with marksmanship. It later played a relatively constructive role regarding safety-minded gun ownership restrictionsm before turning into a rigid politicized force.

Chicago Sun-Times

NRA stages marketing event as Texas mourns school shooting

The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention in Houston on Friday, and leaders of the powerful gun-rights lobbying group are gearing up to “reflect on” -- and deflect any blame for -- the deadly shooting earlier this week of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in…

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The Republicans most likely to make a deal on gun control and how much money the NRA has given them to stop it

Who receives money from the NRA and when isn’t as clear-cut as it may seem

Tribune News Service

Don McLean backs out of performance at NRA convention after Texas school shooting

Don McLean is saying “bye bye” to the NRA — for now, at least.

The Guardian - US

Kimmel on gun control: ‘Our cowardly leaders just aren’t listening to us’

Late-night hosts delivered emotional monologues in the aftermath of the Uvalde school shooting

Salon

Senate heads for vacation after shooting

Despite mounting calls to address gun violence after Uvalde shooting, Schumer admits chances of gun bill are "slim"

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The Independent UK

Mitt Romney attacked for $13m NRA donation as he tweets about Uvalde attack

Utah lawmaker has received more money from notorious pressure group than any other GOP senator

The New Daily

After 138 school shootings this year, why can’t America enact gun control?

America is grappling withe gun control debate after yet another school shooting. Experts say its lawmakers could learn from Australia and Port Arthur.

France 24

NRA convention is 'slap in the face' to Texans after Uvalde school shooting

IN THE PAPERS - Thursday, May 26, 2022: The local paper in Uvalde, Texas publishes its first issue since the shooting that killed 19 children and their teachers: an all-black front page with the date of the massacre. Despite the shooting, US gun lobby the NRA is going forward with…

Salon

NRA and GOP are in $$$ cahoots

Right-wing lawmakers are "allowing children to die because of the gun lobby"

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Shootings show that an armed society is nothing more than a fearful society

For decades, lies about gun violence have sustained policies that get many people killed. Tops Fresh Market in Buffalo, New York, and Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, now enter America’s list of mass shootings. It is a list of intense sorrow and shame. And it is a list we…

The Independent UK

Don McLean drops out of NRA rally concert following Texas school shooting

‘In light of recent events in Texas, I have decided it would be disrespectful and hurtful for me to perform for the NRA’

The Guardian - US

Outrage as NRA to gather in Houston just days after Texas school massacre

Counter-protests expected as about 55,000 NRA members to attend event, including Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott

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