| Issue No. 74 |
May 2012
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The NRA's Wayne LaPierre: Standing Guard
By Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President, NRA, The Daily Caller
For anyone who doubts President Barack Obama's dedication to a second-term all-out war on the Second Amendment, say just one name -- Mayor Rahm Emanuel -- the new boss of Chicago machine politics, tapped as the star co-chair for Obama's re-election campaign...
Chris Cox Letter: Gun rights are fundamental
By Chris Cox, Executive Director, NRA-ILA, Memphis Commercial Appeal
As a seventh generation Tennessean, Tennessee property owner and graduate of Rhodes College in Memphis, the legislative battle over keeping locked firearms in vehicles on company property hits home with me...
Oversight Watchdogs Move to Hold Eric Holder in Contempt over Operation Fast & Furious
U.S. House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform, YouTube
House Oversight Committee Watchdogs take the first step to holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt over Operation Fast and Furious...
Report: Guns used in Mexico for lawyer's murder traced to Operation Fast and Furious
By Diana Washington Valdez, El Paso Times (TX)
Firearms connected to Operation Fast and Furious were used in the 2010 slaying of the brother of the former Chihuahua state attorney general, according to a U.S. congressional report...
Obama admin. let grenades walk in Fast and Furious, documents show
By Matthew Boyle, The Daily Caller
In a shocking development in the Operation Fast and Furious investigation, documents show Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents allowed grenade parts to walk in addition to guns...
ATF Publishes Misleading Trace Data From Mexico
By Katie Pavlich, News Editor, Townhall.com
The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms released firearms tracing data to the press from Mexico between the years 2007-2011 during a roundtable discussion...
NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer sounds off on New York Times opinion writer
Letter by Marion Hammer, Miami Herald
The National Rifle Association's top lobbyist in Florida has squared off against a writer (and gun-owning hunter) who said in a New York Times opinion piece that the NRA cares more about unbridled gun rights than it does about actual hunting...
Harvard History Prof. Needs History Lesson
NRA-ILA
Thirty-five words acknowledging the good uses and potential uses of guns, in an article of 7,729 words, is not necessarily better than nothing. The article, "Battleground America: One Nation Under the Gun," written by Harvard University history professor Jill LePore...
Bank of America to Gun Company: Find Another Bank
Cam & Company, NRA News
Cam Edwards talks to Kelly McMillan of McMillan Firearms Manufacturing and McMillan Group International...