Month: January 2024

[ad_1] Ryan Busse, candidate for Governor, responds to a question from the public while meeting with the Ravalli County Commissioners on January 4th. Photo by Nathan Boddy. by Nathan Boddy Ryan Busse, a Democratic candidate for Governor, has traveled over 14,000 miles across Montana in his truck since declaring his candidacy last September.  He was
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[ad_1] A Maine goon cat? In some leftovers from the weekend — don’t you turn up your nose like that, it’s still perfectly edible! — National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre resigned Friday, prior to the start of his civil fraud trial in New York Monday. He also stepped down as “executive vice-president,” the weirdest
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[ad_1] A group of Democrat State Attorneys General, led by New York’s Letitia James, has sent a letter to the Biden Administration’s Office of Gun Violence Prevention requesting a ban on civilian purchase of 5.56-millimeter ammunition. By yourNEWS Media Staff Fifteen State Attorneys General, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, have collectively sent
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[ad_1] What You Should Know In promising news for the rule of law, over the past several months, criminal and civil proceedings are resulting in much-needed accountability for former President Donald Trump and top allies who assisted his plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Federal and state authorities have initiated criminal court proceedings against
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[ad_1] The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Eleven years ago, Wayne LaPierre, the CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA), delivered a speech elevating the gun advocacy nonprofit after 20 elementary school children were shot
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[ad_1] In opening arguments for a much-anticipated civil corruption trial Tuesday, lawyers for the National Rifle Association vehemently denied that executives at the gun group wrongfully spent donated funds on private jet rides, fancy meals and expensive hotels. “It is complete fiction that the NRA spends charity money on private flights and yachts,” said Sarah
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[ad_1] Defendant The National Rifle Association of America appeals from the order of the Supreme Court, New York County (Joel M. Cohen, J.), entered June 10, 2022, which granted the NYAG’s motion to dismiss its First Amendment retaliation and selective enforcement counterclaims. SALIANN SCARPULLA, JUSTICE This appeal arises from a suit commenced by plaintiff People
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[ad_1] Wayne LaPierre, the former chief executive of the US gun lobby group National Rifle Association (NRA), has been accused of pilfering millions of dollars from the organisation for his personal benefit, the prosecutors said on the first day of a civil trial in Manhattan.  Monica Connell, New York’s assistant attorney general made the claim during the
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[ad_1] SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Many California firearms instructors who teach a class required to get a state concealed weapons permit are no longer certified, at least for now, under new state Department of Justice regulations. The rules were issued as part of the DOJ’s implementation of Senate Bill 2, a controversial new state law that
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[ad_1] While giving a speech Monday at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, President Biden referenced Thursday’s shooting at Iowa’s Perry High School then pushed gun control that would not have prevented the shooting from taking place. Breitbart News reported the Iowa shooting was carried out by a 17-year-old armed with a pump shotgun and
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[ad_1] Wayne LaPierre illegally failed to disclose being treated to vacations on posh 108-foot-yachts in the Bahamas while he ran the National Rifle Association, lawyers for New York state claimed at the start of his corruption trial on Monday. During his three-decade-long stint as the powerful head of the gun-rights group, LaPierre allegedly spent time
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[ad_1] The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals over the weekend pleased 2nd Amendment advocates by blocking a new California law that bans people from carrying firearms in most public places. In its ruling, the court said the law wouldn’t take effect while a court case challenging Senate Bill 2 continues. However, a Clovis firearms
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[ad_1] When Wayne LaPierre, the longtime leader of the National Rifle Association, announced his resignation on Friday, his opponents may have been tempted to celebrate. But the reality is that his departure does not necessarily change the group’s immediate prospects. The NRA remains under the control of an old guard that comprises mainly LaPierre’s lieutenants.
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[ad_1] The future of the country’s most prominent gun rights group hangs in the balance as a civil trial begins in Lower Manhattan this week against the National Rifle Association. Attorney General Letitia James’s long-awaited civil corruption trial against the National Rifle Association began Monday afternoon in a Manhattan courtroom. The proceedings are expected to
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[ad_1] Attorney General Letitia James’s long-awaited civil corruption trial against the National Rifle Association is set to start this morning in a Manhattan courtroom. The case stems from a lawsuit James filed against the hulking gun rights nonprofit back in 2020, accusing the organization of misappropriating millions of dollars to pay its leaders’ personal expenses–
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[ad_1] The Weirdness of LaPierre  Originally a Democrat, like a substantial portion of the National Rifle Association’s longest-serving staff, Wayne was active with the Roanoke Democrats in college but declined a job offer from the office of Democratic House Speaker Tip O’Neill. Instead, he got a job at the NRA. The NRA building at the
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