May 19, 2009
Phoenix, AZ -- Following the National Rifle Association’s 138th Annual Meeting and Exhibits this week, Ronald Schmeits, president, chief executive officer and director of International...
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May 5, 2009
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Fairfax, VA - The National Rifle Association (NRA) is pleased to announce this year’s Annual Meetings and Exhibits to be held at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona...
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April 28, 2009
Fairfax, Va. – National Rifle Association-backed legislation has been signed into law that enhances the right of self-defense for law-abiding Montanans. House Bill 228 was passed...
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April 24, 2009
Fairfax, Va. – The National Rifle Association (NRA) and other plaintiffs have filed a lawsuit in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, seeking to enjoin the City...
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April 21, 2009
Fairfax, Va. – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit marked a milestone in Second Amendment history by ruling that the Second Amendment limits state and local government infringements on our right to keep and bear arms through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. NRA has been involved in, and supportive of, this case for the past ten years and has filed several amicus briefs in the case.
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April 16, 2009
The NRA is well aware of the proposed Organization of American States treaty on firearms trafficking, known by its Spanish initials as CIFTA. The NRA monitored the development of this...
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April 2, 2009
Fairfax, Va. – Today, U.S. Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID), Max Baucus (D-MT), Bob Bennett (R-UT), Jon Tester (D-MT) and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) introduced legislation to restore the Second...
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March 31, 2009
Fairfax, Va. - Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. (R) announced today that he signed important National Rifle Association-backed legislation into law that will protect the rights of law-abiding...
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March 31, 2009
Fairfax, VA – The National Rifle Association (NRA) is pleased to announce that the association’s 138th Annual Meeting and Exhibits will be held at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona from May 15-17, 2009. Members of the news media are welcome to cover this year’s event.
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March 26, 2009
"With nearly 30 years served as a member of the NRA board of directors, Governor Palin has chosen a staunch defender of constitutional freedom and someone whose contributions to individual...
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March 25, 2009
Fairfax, Va. – The National Rifle Association filed a second amended complaint in Dick Anthony Heller et al v. District of Columbia in U.S. District Court. NRA and other plaintiffs...
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March 20, 2009
Fairfax, Va. – Today, the National Rifle Association filed a notice of appeal in Federal District Court to oppose a preliminary injunction preventing law-abiding citizens from defending...
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March 19, 2009
Today, a federal district court in Washington, D.C. granted anti-gun plaintiffs a preliminary injunction against implementation of the new rule allowing concealed carry in national...
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March 19, 2009
Fairfax, Va. - Today, the Illinois Supreme Court dismissed yet another reckless lawsuit aimed at putting firearms manufacturers out of business. Adames v. Beretta was dismissed under the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act of 2005 (PLCAA). The court’s order affirmed the original trial court judgment in the case.
This is the second judicial decision in 2009 upholding a dismissal under the PLCAA. Ten days ago, the U.S. Supreme Court denied appeals in the cases of New York v. Beretta and District of Columbia v. Beretta.
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March 18, 2009
65 House Democrats Express Opposition To Reinstatement Of The Failed 1994 Gun And Magazine Ban
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March 18, 2009
Yesterday morning, the Department of Defense informed NRA-ILA that fired military small arms cartridge cases are once again eligible for sale, following a temporary suspension in such...
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March 11, 2009
Fairfax, Va. -- The National Park Service has announced its intention to ban traditional ammunition containing lead in all its parks. The move would needlessly push hunters to use more...
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March 9, 2009
Fairfax, Va. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied consideration of New York City and Washington, D.C. lawsuits, New York v. Beretta and Lawson v. Beretta, respectively, that tried...
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March 4, 2009
Fairfax, Va. – An overwhelming bi-partisan majority of Oklahoma lawmakers have decided to prohibit private employers from asking job applicants if they own a gun. Senate Bill 793,...
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February 26, 2009
Fairfax, Va. – The United States Senate has voted, with overwhelming bipartisan support, to adopt an amendment offered by Senator John Ensign (R-NV) that seeks to protect the...
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February 18, 2009
Fairfax, Va. – Today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously in support of allowing employees to store legally owned firearms in locked, private...
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February 13, 2009
To date, the paper has not published the letter or returned phone calls that we left for them. As a result, we are posting this letter.
Dear Editor:
Your decision to publicize...
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February 6, 2009
Fairfax, Va. -- Today, the Congress of Racial Equality, the Independence Institute on behalf of a coalition of law enforcement organizations, Institute for Justice, the Constitutional...
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February 6, 2009
Fairfax, Va. – The City of San Francisco has paid $380,000 to the National Rifle Association (NRA) as reimbursement for legal fees incurred while striking down Proposition H, passed...
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February 4, 2009
Fairfax, VA – Today the Virginia State Senate voted down a bill for the second time in two days that would have imposed sweeping restrictions on Second Amendment rights at gun shows...
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January 29, 2009
Fairfax, Va. – An NRA-led coalition of self-defense civil rights groups including the Second Amendment Foundation and the California Rifle & Pistol Association (CRPA) has prevailed...
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January 16, 2009
The NRA joins Nebraska gun owners in hailing state Attorney General Jon Bruning's opinion that concludes the 2006 Concealed Handgun Permit Act forbids cities and towns from preventing...
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December 19, 2008
Today U.S. District Judge, Northern District of Illinois, Milton Shadur declined to decide whether the individual right to keep and bear arms recognized by the Supreme Court in D.C....
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December 5, 2008
Fairfax, Va. - The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), through the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has announced the final amended version of its changes...
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November 20, 2008
Fairfax, VA-The Winnetka, IL Village Council has repealed its 20-year handgun ban following this summer's Supreme Court decision and subsequent lawsuit by NRA and three Winnetka residents....
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November 13, 2008
The Obama administration’s employment application proves what NRA has been saying: the Obama administration is anti-firearms ownership and anti-Second Amendment.
And as this litmus...
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November 4, 2008
Fairfax, VA – The National Rifle Association (NRA) today filed suit against the State of Washington charging it in violation of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution...
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October 31, 2008
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October 31, 2008
Fairfax, VA--The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) today sent the following email alert to members following reports of deceptive phone calls in support of Barack Obama. The callers falsely claim to be from NRA and attribute Senator John McCain's pro-gun voting record to that of Obama.
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October 28, 2008
Fairfax, VA - This November 4, ballots in Oklahoma will include State Question 742, giving voters the choice to permanently preserve the Right to Hunt and Fish in the Oklahoma State...
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October 28, 2008
A new story by Brooks Jackson on the FactCheck.org website once again shows that FactCheck cherry-picks “facts” to suit its anti-NRA, anti-gun, anti-self-defense agenda—an agenda...
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October 8, 2008
Fairfax, VA-After a three-year legal battle over the unconstitutional confiscation of lawfully owned firearms, the City of New Orleans has agreed to settle a law suit by the National...
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October 6, 2008
Special Deal on Sights: Aimpoint and MidwayUSA Team Up to Help NRA-ILA
Aimpoint, Inc. and MidwayUSA will donate $100 to the NRA Institute for Legislative Action for every Aimpoint CompM4 electronic red-dot sight package purchased by NRA members from MidwayUSA through the end of 2008.
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September 25, 2008
Fairfax, VA-Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign has sent threatening letters to news agencies in Pennsylvania and Ohio to stop airing ads exposing his anti-gun record sponsored by the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF).
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September 23, 2008
Village Council Backed Away from Repealing Ban
Fairfax, VA—After months of waiting in good faith for the repeal of a gun ban that never happened, the National Rifle Association (NRA)...
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