Month: April 2023

[ad_1] South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has sparked controversy after she revealed how her one-year-old granddaughter already owns her own shotgun and a rifle. The Republican governor made the comments during an appearance at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum in Indiana.  In a video clip that was uploaded to Twitter, Noem spoke of her granddaughter who
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[ad_1] Former President Donald Trump speaks during an event at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Sen. Ted Budd of North Carolina endorsed Trump’s candidacy in the 2024 presidential race. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/TNS) INDIANAPOLIS – Top Republican hopefuls for the 2024 presidential race vowed Friday at the National Rifle Association’s
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[ad_1] Declared and expected 2024 GOP presidential candidates spoke at the National Rifle Association convention in Indianapolis on Friday. Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gave dueling speeches, marking the first time the two Republican frontrunners were featured at the same event. Unsurprisingly, all of the Republican candidates said they supported the
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[ad_1] Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull laid into right-wing media tycoon Rupert Murdoch on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” Friday. Turnbull, of the conservative Liberal Party, railed against Murdoch for empowering former President Donald Trump and radicalizing his supporters into storming the U.S. Capitol — and opened up about how Murdoch, who also runs right-wing outlets
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[ad_1] INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Former President Donald Trump told the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action’s (NRA-ILA) Leadership Forum that it’s time the government prioritized its duty to protect schoolchildren. “For about $12 billion, we can provide armed security guards at every school in America,” Trump said. “If we can send $120 billion to Ukraine, we
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[ad_1] Ex-President Donald Trump spoke at the NRA Leadership Forum in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Friday (Picture: Reuters) Former President Donald Trump as the headline speaker at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention claimed that ‘Communist maniacs’ are seeking to take away guns and release ‘bloodthirsty criminals’. Trump attacked Democrats at the NRA’s annual meeting at
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[ad_1] The three-day NRA gathering opened Friday, bringing thousands of the rifle association’s most active members to one place — this year Indianapolis. It also attracted presidential contenders or possible candidates looking for votes — including Donald Trump.  “You know sometimes I think ‘please don’t say that,’ but then again he’s our voice,” said Joel Wetter, a
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[ad_1] Former President Donald Trump warned the National Rifle Association that it “better” endorse him for president in 2024 moments after ex-Vice President Mike Pence was mercilessly booed by supporters of the gun rights group.  Trump, 76, told attendees at the NRA’s annual convention in Indianapolis Friday that when the organization endorsed his 2016 presidential
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[ad_1] Gov. Kristi Noem signed an executive order that she said will bolster gun rights as she spoke to a crowd Thursday at the National Rifle Association Leadership Forum in Indianapolis, along with presidential candidates and potential candidates including former President Donald Trump, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and former Vice President Mike Pence. Donald
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[ad_1] INDIANAPOLIS — Martha Mathieu got flipped off and occasionally cussed at Friday afternoon as she drove a van around the National Rifle Association’s convention in downtown Indianapolis. Digital screens on the van displayed messages like “NRA execs are celebrating. Kids are dying.” Another display read, “The NRA protects its leaders, not your rights.” Mathieu
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[ad_1] (The Center Square) – South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed an executive order Tuesday banning the state from making contracts with banks that won’t do business with firearms manufacturers. Noem announced the executive order at the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum, where she was a guest speaker. “This Executive Order
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[ad_1] Former Vice President Mike Pence blasted demands for gun control after recent mass shootings during a Friday speech to the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting. “President Biden and the Democrats have returned to the same tired arguments about gun control and gun confiscation,” Pence said at the meeting of the five-million-member organization in Indianapolis,
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[ad_1] Former President Trump turned an address before gun rights activists at the National Rifle Association (NRA) into a post-indictment stump speech by tearing into prosecutors for going after him instead of ‘thugs and hoodlums.’  ‘The only one they wanna prosecute is Donald Trump,’ the former president said after leaving New York, where Manhattan DA
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[ad_1] Wayne LaPierre, CEO and executive vice-president of the National Rifle Association, addresses the National Rifle Association Convention, Friday, April 14, 2023, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) INDIANAPOLIS — Top Republican hopefuls for the 2024 presidential race vowed Friday at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention to defend the Second Amendment at all costs, suggesting
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[ad_1] RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – Gov. Kristi Noem used the backdrop of the annual National Rifle Association Leadership Forum Friday to sign an executive order barring state agencies from dealing with financial institutions that reportedly discriminate against gun owners and firearms businesses. Noem claims it isn’t just the “media and big government” attacking gun
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[ad_1] Former Vice President Mike Pence is calling for expedited executions of criminals convicted of mass shootings in the U.S., saying “justice delayed is justice denied.” During his appearance Friday at the annual National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action leadership forum in Indianapolis, Mr. Pence, a likely 2024 GOP presidential candidate, said the federal
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[ad_1] By WILL WEISSERT and TOM DAVIES (Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Last year it was Uvalde. Now it’s Nashville and Louisville. For the second year in a row, the National Rifle Association is holding its annual convention within days of mass shootings that shook the nation. The three-day gathering kicked off Friday with thousands
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[ad_1] x Jack Smith’s team has been drilling down in interviews about a map with sensitive intelligence that they’ve questioned whether Trump showed people aboard a plane or showed an adviser, Adam Goldman ⁦@alanfeuer⁩ me https://t.co/lDBDOKDjO2 — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 12, 2023 Tom Edsall/The New York Times: The Republican Strategists Who Have Carefully Planned All
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[ad_1] Multiple Republican presidential contenders will descend on Indianapolis, Indiana, to speak at the National Rifle Association‘s annual convention on Friday, a testament to the power Second Amendment activists still have on the GOP. Former President Donald Trump will speak to the activists in person, his first public appearance after he was arraigned in a
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