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...She is seeking to dissolve the lobbying group, remove LaPierre from his post and compel the officials to pay restitution....
...US pressure groups/interest groups NRA to press on with Houston conference despite Texas school shooting US gun control activists hope this time will be different Washington’s revolving door: can Trump...
...groups — debates concerning the power of pressure groups in the USA Click to read the articles below and then answer the questions: NRA to press on with Houston conference despite Texas school shooting...
...The group defied widespread calls to cancel its meeting in nearby Denver, Colorado....
...Even the existence of the NRA, which purports to be an underground organisation of Russian partisans dedicated to overthrowing Putin, is shrouded in doubt....
...Protesters that gathered outside the NRA’s annual meeting in Houston slammed the group for pressing ahead with the conference, which promised “14 acres of guns and gear”, so soon after the Uvalde massacre...
...The decision to scrap all associated events and meetings scheduled from September 3-5 was made due to “concern over the safety of our NRA family and community”, the gun rights advocacy group said on Tuesday...
...advocacy group said on Tuesday....
...Wayne LaPierre, the NRA chief executive, is said to have rallied the crowd at the group’s 2012 convention saying then-president Barack Obama had “engaged in a stealthy assault on your right to keep and bear...
...Hale acknowledged in his decision that the group was “financially healthy” and that creditors were likely to be paid back more quickly outside of a court-supervised reorganisation....
...The group admitted it had no financial problems....
...The NRA insists it will resist the latest gun control push in Washington. “The NRA hasn’t lost a beat,” the group’s spokesman, Andrew Arulanandam, told the Wall Street Journal at the weekend....
...The judge noted revelations about the group at times were “cringeworthy” (one NRA executive, for example, had repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination)....
...Use the information here, and other resources, to research the NRA and assess the extent of its influence on the political process....
...NRA videos depict Americans in tactical battle gear heroically fighting terrorists....
...“If the NRA went away tomorrow, there would be a replacement,” he said. “[It] would emerge because there are a lot of people out there who feel very strongly about their Second Amendment rights.”...
...Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, echoed the sentiment, noting that the NRA is a shadow of the fearsome group that had for decades successfully fought to loosen US gun laws....
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...Donations to controversial candidates can cause a storm on social media, as the supermarket group Publix discovered in 2018....
...In the news New York attorney-general targets NRA The state’s attorney-general has sued to dissolve the National Rifle Association, accusing the powerful gun lobbying group’s top executives of siphoning...
...Pressure groups: NRA to press on with Houston conference despite Texas school shooting Prime minister and cabinet: Boris Johnson’s Downing Street shake-up needs to succeed — and fast Devolution: Northern...
...That’s what the NRA wants Americans to believe,” the group said. “Gun violence is a crisis in our country because of easy and unfettered access to guns.”...
...Eli Kasargod-Staub, co-founder of shareholder activist group Majority Action, said gunmakers’ “boom-and-bust” exposure to the US electoral cycle — gun sales tend to rise and fall in line with the political...
...The NRA did not immediately respond to a request for comment. There is no evidence it, or any other rightwing group in the US approached by One Nation for donations, provided any donations....
...(FT) NRA v San Francisco The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday over the city’s recent declaration that the gun-rights lobby was a “domestic terrorist organisation.”...
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