June 16, 2011
NRA and the nation’s largest police group, the Fraternal Order of Police, have worked together on numerous issues, and thanks to the leadership of FOP National President Chuck Canterbury our working relationship is now stronger than ever.
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May 18, 2011
As the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives continues to resist congressional demands that it explore its reckless operations on the southwest border, Mexican citizens, and even U.S. federal agents, are paying the price—with their very lives.
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December 13, 2010
Have you ever wondered where gun control supporters have been getting their information when they say "studies show" that gun control reduces crime, or that new laws would prevent crime?
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September 15, 2010
Coinciding with a surge in gun purchases that began shortly before the 2008 elections, violent crime decreased six percent between 2008 and 2009, including an eight percent decrease in murder and a nine percent decrease in robbery.
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September 10, 2010
“More guns equal less crime.” It’s a phrase that’s become ubiquitous among gun-rights proponents and a foundational argument for the seeming renaissance of pro-Second Amendment scholarship and judicial protection occurring today--crowned with the establishment of individual-rights precedent in both the Heller and McDonald cases.
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June 28, 2010
I have been closely following the heartbreaking story of the March drive-by massacre in southeast Washington, D.C., and especially commend the commen-taries of Washington Post columnist Colbert I. King and his rightful anguish over the broken system of local justice in the District of Columbia. The failure of D.C. criminal law to deal with recidivist, violent predators--what King calls “this perversion of justice and public safety”--is dwarfed by the failure of federal prosecutors to step in and bring to bear federal laws that are beyond the failed D.C. system.
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January 22, 2010
Through cable news networks and scores of website postings, millions of Americans have seen the horrifying beating death of a 16-year-old Chicago honor student--bludgeoned by a thug swinging a five-foot length of heavy lumber. The cellphone video taken by a bystander in the midst of chaotic gang violence shows the boy slumping to the pavement unconscious then trying to get to his feet only to be hit, stomped and kicked by more gang-bangers. And there is laughter. A girl’s desperate voice says, “Darrion, get up.” He never regained consciousness.
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January 29, 2009
Over the last two decades, many “gun control” laws have been eliminated or made less restrictive at the federal, state, and local levels. Numbers of privately-owned guns and Right-to-Carry states have risen to all-time highs. Every step of the way, “gun control” groups predicted violent crime would increase. Instead, violent crime decreased dramatically.
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September 4, 2007
When the so-called “mainstream” media completely ignore an important firearm study by the FBI, there’s got to be a good reason--doesn’t there?
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August 28, 2007
To research that question, researchers Gary Mauser (left) and Don Kates compiled statistics for the rates of murder and gun ownership for nations stretching from the Baltic to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to the Pacific.
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July 12, 2007
Fairfax, Va. - The U.S. House Appropriations Committee voted to protect language commonly known as the Tiahrt Amendment, rejecting two separate amendments designed to strike and gut...
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May 23, 2007
Anti-gun politicians want to apply RICO racketeering statutes--designed to prosecute organized crime figures--to federal firearm law in an all-out effort to put the bite on all American gun owners.
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August 17, 2006
Beginning in 1997, police in Richmond, Va., began carrying a wallet-sized card (above) that outlined the existing law to prosecute felons caught in possession of a gun.
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January 10, 2006
Fairfax, VA – Today, Mississippi Senators Charlie Ross (R-Brandon) and Ralph Doxey (R-Holly Springs) introduced the NRA-supported “Castle Doctrine” self-defense bill with 30 Senate...
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November 1, 2005
The flaw in anti-gun thinking is starkly demonstrated by a confluence of two trends. Simply stated, while guns have been going "up," crime has been going "down."
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October 4, 2005
(Fairfax, VA) -- National Rifle Association (NRA) Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre will join Virginia gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore for a series of press conferences...
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August 26, 2005
"The circumstances of workplace homicides differ substantially from those portrayed by the media and from homicides in the general population. For the most part, workplace homicides are not the result of disgruntled workers who take out their frustrations on co-workers or supervisors, or of intimate partners and other relatives who killed loved ones in the course off a dispute; rather, they are mostly robbery-related crimes." --National Institute for Occupational Safety And Health
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August 23, 2005
NRA has undertaken the effort to protect gun owners' rights in their workplaces by fighting efforts by employers to ban firearms, including firearms locked in private vehicles in employee parking lots. This has generated the predictable response from the anti-gun community, with claims of workplace horrors assigned to firearms and "studies" that purport to show firearms are a threat to workplace safety. Careful examinations of these studies reveal both bias in their source material and serious flaws in their methodology.
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April 25, 2005
The leaders of the House Judiciary Committee`s Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security--Reps. Howard Coble (R-N.C.) and Bobby Scott (D-Va.) have joined forces to introduce H.R. 5092, the "Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) Modernization and Reform Act of 2006." This bipartisan bill is a critical first step toward reforming BATFE.
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March 27, 2005
Well, it's finally complete--a Clinton administration-inspired study into the efficacy of various firearm-related controls, restrictions, freedoms and programs by the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences. Published as a 300-page report entitled Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review, the study concluded: More research is needed.
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July 9, 2004
These files -- for the U.S., the 50 states, and the District of Columbia -- contain annual statistics for total, serious, violent, and property crimes and incarcerations.
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January 21, 2004
President Clinton signed the 1994 federal Crime Bill into law on Sept. 13, 1994, including the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which made it a federal crime for a private individual to possess or transfer (sell, give, etc.) a "semiautomatic assault weapon" (AW) manufactured after that date.
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December 11, 2003
"Referrals for the prosecution of gun crimes by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) have almost tripled in recent years," according to a new report from the independent, non-partisan Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University. This continues an upward trend that began in 1997 after federal enforcement actions hit their recent all-time low under the Clinton-Gore-Reno Administration.
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September 9, 2003
Fear of the armed citizen and the threat of tough punishment for using a gun (or other weapons) in committing a violent crime are significant factors in both reducing and deterring crime, according to the results of a survey of imprisoned felons conducted by Professors James D. Wright and Peter H. Rossi.
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June 8, 2003
Research by award-winning criminologist Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz reveals Americans use guns for self-defense as often as 2.5 million times a year--that`s three to five times more often than they are misused by criminals.
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May 6, 2002
Official NRA comments submitted to BATF on the proposed rulemaking regarding the transfer of firearms to aliens.
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June 7, 2001
H. Sterling Burnett, of the National Center for Policy Analysis, explains that there is no gun show "loophole" and that "gun control" advocates are instead trying to stop all legal private gun sales.
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April 20, 2001
Part of the Soros Foundation Network, the Open Society Institute released a report written by an Australian gun prohibition advocate, endorsing a wide range of schemes promoted by anti-gun activists in the U.S.
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April 13, 2001
Firearm-related deaths are declining significantly. The trends show that NRA has been right on crime and safety issues.
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April 10, 2001
Do other countries all have more restrictive gun laws and lower violent crime rates than the U.S.? How do U.S. and other countries` crime trends compare? What societal factors affect crime rates?
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October 17, 2000
Congress has enacted tough sentencing laws to put violent armed felons in prison--laws ignored by the Clinton Administration.
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March 28, 2000
Anti-gun officials in Australia complained when NRA focused attention on their country`s crime trends after the 1996 gun ban on. But they couldn`t change what their government`s own statistics showed.
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March 8, 2000
U.S. Dept. of Justice research by Professors Joseph F. Sheley and James D. Wright finds, "nearly everything juveniles do with their guns is already against the law."
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January 27, 2000
The Clinton-Gore-Reno Administration called for more gun laws, while failing to enforce current law.
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October 26, 1999
The National Center for Policy Analysis offers an analysis of crime and proposes solutions for the future.
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July 29, 1999
"Damage control" was the order of the day for "gun control" supporters following Colin Ferguson`s shooting rampage on a Long Island, New York, railroad car, on Dec. 6, 1993.
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July 28, 1999
Polsby explains why gun control does not prevent criminals from acquiring guns, and it diverts attention from the roots of our crime problem.
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July 28, 1999
In addition to federal gun laws imposed by the National Firearms Act (1934), the Gun Control Act (1968), the Firearms Owners' Protection Act (1986) among others, most states and many localities have their own firearm restrictions in place. There are currently more than 20,000 firearms laws in the U.S., clearly more than enough to punish criminals who misuse firearms, but the laws have to be enforced.
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July 16, 1999
By NRA-ILA Research Coordinator Paul H. Blackman, Ph.D. Research by award-winning criminologist Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz reveals that guns are used for self-defense as often as 2.5 million times a year -- three to five times more often than they are misused by criminals.
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