2/28/17: Trump signs bill reversing Obama rule to ban gun purchases by mentally ill.
Also notable in that it was signed without a public ceremony. #TrumpRollback #GunsOverPeopleGOP http://usat.ly/2mBDA8P  via @usatoday
Trump signs bill reversing Obama rule to ban gun purchases by mentally ill

The Obama rule would have blocked mentally ill people from buying guns.

http://usat.ly/2mBDA8P
#TrumpNRA
Documents Point to Illegal Campaign Coordination Between Trump and NRA https://www.thetrace.org/2018/12/trump-nra-campaign-coordination/
Documents Point to Illegal Campaign Coordination Between Trump and NRA

The National Rifle Association spent $30 million to help elect Donald Trump — more than any other independent conservative group. Most of that sum went toward television advertising, but a political...

https://www.thetrace.org/2018/12/trump-nra-campaign-coordination/
How to sell a massacre: NRA's playbook revealed https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/sell-massacre-nra-playbook-revealed-190325111828105.html
Why Are The Russia/Butina/NRA/Trump Connections Still Not Getting More Attention? https://www.mediaite.com/online/why-are-the-russia-butina-nra-trump-connections-still-not-getting-more-attention/
Why Are The Russia/Butina/NRA/Trump Connections Still Not Getting More

There is an interesting phenomenon in the news media that, the bigger a story is, the more likely it is that important sections of it are going to be overlooked, it not completely misinterpreted. Ther

https://www.mediaite.com/online/why-are-the-russia-butina-nra-trump-connections-still-not-getting-more-attention/
"Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose."
Justice Antonin Scalia, 2008.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. HELLER https://liicr.nl/2NTrdVT  via @LIICornell
Memo reveals a House Republican strategy on shootings: downplay white nationalism, blame left https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/08/16/memo-reveals-a-house-republican-strategy-on-shootings-downplay-white-nationalism-blame-left/
Memo reveals a House Republican strategy on shootings: downplay white nationalism, blame left

The GOP memo falsely pinned the El Paso massacre and other notable mass shootings on the left.

https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/08/16/memo-reveals-a-house-republican-strategy-on-shootings-downplay-white-nationalism-blame-left/
https://deadstate.org/nras-favorite-researcher-exposed-during-hearing-for-using-a-fake-profile-to-praise-his-own-research/
NRA’s ‘favorite researcher’ exposed during hearing for using a fake profile to praise his own work

During a contentious exchange at a Wednesday hearing to discuss gun violence in America, Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) accused gun rights advocate John Lott of impersonating a woman online to boost h

https://deadstate.org/nras-favorite-researcher-exposed-during-hearing-for-using-a-fake-profile-to-praise-his-own-research/
#NRARussia
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/764879242/nra-was-foreign-asset-to-russia-ahead-of-2016-new-senate-report-reveals
Trump Meets With LaPierre to Discuss How N.R.A. Could Support Political Defense https://nyti.ms/2lECgpY 
https://twitter.com/RonWyden/status/1177586522880643072?s=19
https://www.thetrace.org/2017/04/donald-trump-nra-convention/
Gun Violence Costs America $229 Billion Per Year, New Report Says https://www.newsweek.com/gun-violence-economic-toll-joint-committee-1460035
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/02/15/nra-russia-and-trump-money-laundering-poisoning-us-democracy-commentary.html
Want to know what Republicans are planning for gun control? Look to the courts. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/senate-republicans-gun-control-judges.html
Republicans’ Gun Plan: Confirm Judges Who Will Block Any Attempt to Stop Mass Shootings

After El Paso and Dayton, it’s business as usual in the Senate.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/senate-republicans-gun-control-judges.html
America's gun culture in charts https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000000082&chamber=&party=&cycle=2020&state=&sort=N
Revealed: top official did special favors on guns for NRA at interior department https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/23/revealed-e-mails-show-that-nra-shaped-gun-policy-at-interior-department
Revealed: top official did special favors on guns for NRA at interior department

Powerful gun lobby group has used connections in Trump administration to influence decisions, messages show

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/23/revealed-e-mails-show-that-nra-shaped-gun-policy-at-interior-department
Excellent thread on the @NRA's role in fomenting insurrection. https://twitter.com/igorvolsky/status/1349114563002830851?s=19
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