National Rifle Association

guns Nov. 9, 2021

How the Gun Lobby RadicalizedThe NRA helped draft, but then savagely opposed, a modest bill after Sandy Hook and never turned back from extremism.

By Ed Kilgore

ransomware Oct. 27, 2021

Russian Cybercriminals Claim to Have Hacked the NRAMore trouble for the troubled guns-rights group.

By Matt Stieb

national rifle association Apr. 27, 2021

Video Shows NRA’s Wayne LaPierre Failing to Kill Elephant at Point-Blank RangeThe footage from 2013, which conservationists have called “sickening,” shows the National Rifle Association CEO’s poor firearms skills.

By Matt Stieb

politics Mar. 23, 2021

The Six Rationalizations for Doing Nothing About GunsEvery time there’s another massacre, the same old excuses and evasions parade through Washington.

By Ed Kilgore

nra Aug. 6, 2020

New York Attorney General Sues to ‘Dissolve’ the NRAAttorney General Letitia James says self-dealing and corruption resulted in the NRA losing $64 million in just three years.

By Adam K. Raymond

guns Sept. 19, 2019

White House Circulating Gun Proposal That Trump May Not SupportThe NRA is already denouncing the gun background-check bill that nobody in the Trump administration will openly embrace.

By Ed Kilgore

guns Aug. 6, 2019

Republicans’ Love of Guns May Cost Them Votes in the SuburbsBeing a slave to the NRA is not the safest position to be in heading toward a 2020 election in which suburban voters are already leaning Democratic.

By Ed Kilgore

vision 2020 Apr. 4, 2019

White Working-Class Yoga Devotee Tim Ryan Joins Crowded 2020 FieldRyan’s unconventional and sometimes conservative record makes him a hard sell, but if Democrats get obsessed with the heartland, he’ll get a listen.

By Ed Kilgore

gun control Nov. 16, 2018

NRA Sues to Stop Gun Control Measures Approved by Washington VotersThe ballot initiative raises the minimum purchase age for semiautomatic rifles to 21, among other things.

By Adam K. Raymond

July 18, 2018

Russian Spy Suspect Was Infiltrating Christian Right As Well As Gun GroupsThe story of alleged Russian agent Maria Butina and her live-in boyfriend Paul Erickson is quite the spy novel.

By Ed Kilgore

Mar. 27, 2018

Not So Long Ago, the Second Amendment Didn’t Guarantee the Right to Own a GunA slim Supreme Court majority transformed the law of the land in 2008. Another such decision might restore its narrower meaning.

By Ed Kilgore

Dec. 5, 2017

Gun Lobby to Push for National Concealed-Carry RightsUsing a bipartisan bill to tighten gun background checks as bait, the NRA and its GOP allies are pushing to nationalize concealed-carry licenses.

By Ed Kilgore

Sept. 25, 2017

Alabama GOP Senate Preview: A Strange Struggle in a Pro-Trump StateDonald Trump went to Alabama to pull his candidate across the finish line to victory in a GOP Senate runoff. But it’s not looking good for Big Luther.

By Ed Kilgore

Aug. 8, 2017

Jesus, Trump, and Guns: Luther Strange’s Ultimate Alabama GOP AdIn a race marred by negative ads, Senator Luther Strange has a positive spot that’s got more shout-outs to conservative icons than you can count.

By Ed Kilgore

paranoia Oct. 30, 2014