Bars, restaurants, and airlines aren’t the only business feeling the economic impact of the Chinese coronavirus. The National Rifle Association is feeling the pinch, too. The Association was forced to cancel its annual meeting and convention — a big revenue source — that had been scheduled for Nashville next month. According to a just-published Wall … Read more
In a common sense move that shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone given all of cancellations due to coronavirus precautions, the National Rifle Association has announced that their annual meeting and convention scheduled for April in Nashville has been cancelled. The NRA posted this announcement on their site: Important Update: NRA Annual Meeting Cancellation With … Read more
Quartz contributor Elizabeth MacBride attended the NRA annual meetings and convention in Indianapolis back in April. It’s apparently taken her nine months to recover from the experience and synthesize her thoughts about the horrors she witnessed there. She seems to have concluded that the source of the NRA’s power isn’t its money or its five … Read more
Like the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot, the NRA’s Annual Meetings stand as a pilgrimage every gun owner should make at least once in their lives. Think of it as a SHOT Show of sorts for the everyman (and woman). It’s big. It’s fun. You meet all sorts of people and see lots more. And … Read more
By Arbalest Group The antigun mob isn’t reluctant to stoop to the lowest levels to attack the National Rifle Association. With all the scuttlebut about money spent by the NRA on its PR firm, Ackerman McQueen, anti-gun groups are now using internal matters to challenge NRA’s tax exempt status. See here, here and here for … Read more
TTAG first talked to Timmy Oh, inventor of the VARA Safety reach gun lock, a couple of years ago when he was still in the design phase for his biometric gun lock. Now, Oh has a finished product and a pretty impressive one at that (see our earlier post on the VARA Reach here). It’s … Read more
Earlier today we reported that NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre rejected board and major contributor demands that he resign. We learned from a reliable source that, in response, he wrote a letter explaining his position. Click here to read the complete letter.
As you read these words, your faithful TTAG correspondents are at about 30,000 feet, somewhere over the midwest between Austin and Indianapolis, hoping only for a landing we can walk away from. This weekend, we will be, as we are every year at this time, attending the annual NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits. We’ll be … Read more
California’s Kamala Harris is the current leader in the race to see which presidential candidate is willing to articulate the most radically anti-Second Amendment stance. But fellow left coaster Eric Swalwell is coming up fast on the outside. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is the latest Democrat to demonstrate just how much the politics of gun control are … Read more
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