Wayne LaPierre
Elaih Wagan, a 3-year-old from Austin, Texas is recognized as the youngest lifetime member by Wayne LaPierre(R), executive vice president of the National Rifle Association(NRA), during the142nd annual convention at the George R. Brown Convention Center May 4, 2013 in Houston, Texas. Wagan's grandfather purchased a lifetime membership as a gift for the little girl.
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I want (National Rifle Association executive vice president) Wayne LaPierre's head on a stick.
We shouldn't talk about people who go to the NRA conventions like some strange tribe, like people from a foreign country. They're — 99 percent of them are us, they're law-abiding citizens that care about their rights and their guns. ... I don't think they are represented well by Wayne LaPierre.
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Newsday's coverage
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Letter: Background checks for gun buyers
never questioned? Why don't we know their names? Ann Kemler, Long Beach While your editorial rhetorically questions if Wayne LaPierre's comment about Mayor Michael Bloomberg was "a joke," one has to wonder whom the joke is really on.Newsday seems to have no Read more »
Around the web
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WashTimes's Miller: D.C. Govt. Dragged Feet, Holding Back Documents Re: David Gregory Gun Law Violation
did just that last December -- displaying on-air an empty 30-round magazine during an interview segment with the NRA's Wayne LaPierre -- he got off scot-free when the District of Columbia failed to prosecute. The relevant law on the books in the nation's capital 5/21/13 from Newsbusters Read more »
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Gun Worshipper Larry Pratt: Commie Obama is 'Mr. Dictator'
there is any one person besides Wayne LaPierre who might be responsible for domestic terrorism in this country, it's Larry Pratt. Blend that persona with a little Alex Jones, and you get a full contingent of right wing nuttery . In this one segment, Pratt 5/21/13 from Crooks and Liars Read more »
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Josh Horwitz: The NRA's Perverted View of America
Put another way, "The government won't protect us because it wants to control us. Only privately held firearms protect us." Wayne LaPierre echoed this notion, stating , "No bill in Congress...will ever change that inescapable fact that the only way to stop from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Erik Nielson: Gun Collectors and Mental Illness
the last several months, Wayne LaPierre and the NRA have not only helped derail basic reforms to gun laws, but they have sought to distract the American public from a meaningful discussion of common-sense regulations by demonizing the mentally ill. Although from The Huffington Post Read more »
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NRA Admits Ignorance About Lead Ammo's Lethal Toll on Endangered Condors
D.C. - infoZine - The Center for Biological Diversity sent a letter today to NRA head Wayne LaPierre in response to an unusual request from the gun group seeking information about how lead ammunition poisons endangered California condors. The NRA has for years from Kansas City Infozine Read more »
