With Trump’s backing, NRA maps campaign for ‘silencers’

The National Rifle Association is shifting into high gear to shoot down federal and state barriers to buying gun suppressors, believing that the inauguration of President Trump will help to clear the way to easy and low-cost purchases of silencers. “It’s going to be a new day, it’s a new opportunity to hit the reset button,” said Chris Cox, NRA’s chief lobbyist and the executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action. “This is…

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‘We had a shooting, so it went nuts’: business is booming at Oregon gun show | US news | The Guardian

At the Collectors West gun show in Portland, Oregon, last weekend, business was brisk. The show opened its doors just two weeks after the shootings at Umpqua community college, three hours’ drive to the south. Tyler Drake – a tall, relentlessly friendly man in his 20s – was manning the booth for J&B Firearms Sales. He explained that after such shootings “we actually get super-busy”. The proximity of the shootings to Portland has only enhanced…

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Harvard: Millions Of Dollars More For Gun Control

Why do billionaires want us unarmed?  Hmmmm. Billionaire bankrolling of the anti-gun movement is perhaps the most significant new development in the gun control debate in our lifetime. Last year, anti-gun activist Michael Bloomberg donated $350 million to Johns Hopkins University’s School of Public Health, already named for Bloomberg, based upon his previous donations. Bloomberg, the Washington Post reported, also “has committed to spending $50 million of his personal fortune this year to build a…

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