Wayne LaPierre

Jon Stewart accuses NRA of fear-mongering at convention

2013-05-07 11:07:00

The National Rifle Assn. held its annual convention last weekend in Houston, where conservative pundits like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck railed at efforts to enact tighter gun control measures -- and, as Jon Stewart pointed out Monday on "The Daily Show,"...

NRA pledge on gun rights: 'We will never surrender'

2013-05-04 14:56:00

HOUSTON — Vowing that “we will never surrender,” the leader of the National Rifle Assn. claimed victory over recently defeated gun control legislation and denounced “political and media” elites for vilifying gun owners and...

At NRA convention, both sides of gun debate

2013-05-03 18:50:00

HOUSTON — On the morning of the first day of the National Rifle Assn. convention, before the doors opened, scores of visitors lined up outside the convention center, part of what organizers expect will be a record crowd. Among them was Tilman...

Sarah Palin, NRA's backward view of guns, 'politics of emotion'

2013-05-04 09:49:00

It’s been kind of entertaining to see the world-class sophistry on display in Houston at the NRA’s annual convention. The message is: If you feel devastated about the slaughters of Sandy Hook, or Aurora, or Tucson, instead of trying to...

NRA convention gets underway; Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent on tap

2013-05-03 05:30:00

HOUSTON -- The National Rifle Assn.’s annual convention begins in earnest Friday in Houston, with leaders who have spent the year defending the group in the wake of mass shootings emboldened by the recent defeat of federal gun control legislation...

Senate rejects gun background check measure

2013-04-17 19:34:00

WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...

Gun background check compromise: More NRA fear mongering

2013-04-10 16:16:00

As the Senate prepares to vote Thursday on what appears to be a very modest proposal to increase background checks of gun purchasers at gun shows and on the Internet — leaving a great big loophole for families and friends, or should I say “...

The NRA's off-target plan

2013-04-09 00:00:00

Theodore Roosevelt was appalled by the lack of firearms training within the constabulary when he was appointed president of the New York City Police Department Board of Supervisors, a rank now known as police commissioner. He would, I suspect, be...

Alleged home invader shot to death, raising gun issues in Colorado

2013-04-03 13:06:00

President Obama was in Colorado on Wednesday, hoping to use the recent enactment of gun-control legislation there as a way to spur support for his own package of proposals. But a politically purple state such as Colorado can also offer ammunition for...

NRA says more guns in schools will protect children

2013-04-02 15:33:00

Think of the NRA’s newly proposed National School Shield initiative as a kiddie version of the National Missile Defense program. Star Wars for Schoolyards. A hail of bullets will protect everyone! After the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., the...

U.S. senator rips NRA for making robocalls to Newtown residents

2013-03-25 12:16:00

The National Rifle Assn. is taking heat from a U.S. senator after accusations that the organization robocalled Newtown, Conn., residents and urged them to oppose gun-control legislation. Stricter gun laws have been proposed in legislatures all over...

An assault weapons ban was doomed. Focus on background checks.

2013-03-25 06:03:00

WASHINGTON -- Earlier this month, I wrote that the Senate was making quiet progress toward passing a gun control bill that would make background checks mandatory on buyers in almost all gun purchases, including most sales between individuals. And that,...

Mark Kelly, the husband of former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was seriously injured in the mass shooting that killed six people in Tucson, Ariz.

2013-02-20 15:20:00