The following is an excerpt from Tim Mak’s new book “Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA,” about the turmoil inside the country’s most powerful gun lobbying group. At the pinnacle of the National Rifle Association’s power, around the inauguration of President Donald Trump, it was good to be Susan …
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In the wake of the Dayton and El Paso mass shootings, John Oliver underscored the public’s demand for “meaningful gun control,” the currently “weakened” state of the NRA and President Donald Trump‘s “pathological lack of empathy” on Last Week Tonight Sunday. The comedian opened the episode by summarizing how Trump …
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Former Congressman Allen West, a board member of the National Rifle Association, released an extraordinary statement Tuesday blasting a “cabal of cronyism” within the NRA and demanding the resignation of the organization’s longtime honcho, Wayne LaPierre. “It sickens me to publicly make this statement,” West writes on his website, The …
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