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Undated: The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is an American nonprofit organization that advocates for gun rights.[4][5][6] Founded in 1871, the group has informed its members about firearm-related legislation since 1934, and it has directly lobbied for and against firearms legislation since 1975.[7]
The NRA has been criticized by gun control and gun rights advocacy groups, political commentators, and politicians.[13][14] The organization has been the focus of intense criticism in the aftermath of high-profile shootings, such as the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association
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April 30:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-republican-right-found-allies-in-russia/2017/04/30/e2d83ff6-29d3-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ec2171404981
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February 28: Who are the top 10 recipients of NRA money?
https://www.ajc.com/news/national/senators-house-members-who-offered-condolences-after-shooting-called-out-for-donations-from-nra/tpitHXUY9jDH3pr4f7f7cM/
April 2: Inside the Decade-Long Russian Campaign to Infiltrate the NRA and Help Elect Trump
Femme fatales, lavish Moscow parties and dark money – how Russia worked the National Rifle Association
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/inside-the-decade-long-russian-campaign-to-infiltrate-the-nra-and-help-elect-trump-630054/
May 4: Trump Pledged To Take On The NRA; Now He's Speaking At Group's Annual Convention
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/04/608339397/trump-pledged-to-take-on-the-nra-now-hes-speaking-at-group-s-annual-convention
May 4: Trump back in step with NRA after doubts over Parkland shooting
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-trump/trump-back-in-step-with-nra-after-doubts-over-parkland-shooting-idUSKBN1I50ZR
May 4: Mr. Trump left little doubt about his political allegiance at the N.R.A.'s annual convention in Texas
Renewing Bond With the N.R.A., Trump Appeals for Help in the Midterms
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/us/politics/trump-pence-national-rifle-association.html
May 4: Trump tells adoring NRA crowd: 'You have an administration fighting to protect your 2nd Amendment'
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nra-trump-20180504-story.html
May 6: Trump angers France and Britain with his NRA speech
US President Donald Trump took aim at two of America's closest allies in a speech at the NRA convention, saying strict gun laws failed to prevent the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris and highlighting a purported increase in knife violence in London. ... The comments provoked anger in both France and Britain. ... France was especially incensed after Trump, while speaking at the gun rights convention in Dallas on Friday, pointed his hand as if it were a gun while describing how each of the victims in Paris was fatally shot.
"They took their time and gunned them down one by one -- boom, come over here, boom, come over here, boom," he said.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/05/politics/trump-nra-speech-angers-french/index.html
May 12: Researchers Tackle Gun Violence Despite Lack of Federal Funding
In charting a course forward, it is necessary to move beyond "people's anecdotal opinions," says David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. He and other researchers are analyzing data and conducting studies with the ultimate goal of informing public policy. It's a tough task, in part because of a by now well-known piece of legislation called the Dickey Amendment, passed by Congress in 1996 with the support of the National Rifle Association. This amendment prevented the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from using funds "to advocate or promote gun control." It didn't ban federally-funded gun research, but the legislation had a chilling effect: from 1996 to 2013, CDC funding in this area dropped by 96 percent.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/05/12/609701029/researchers-tackle-gun-violence-despite-lack-of-federal-funding
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May 16: Kremlin Used NRA to Help Trump in 2016, Senate Report Says
Documents suggest Moscow funneled money to Trump through the gun group, according to the judiciary committee.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-used-nra-to-help-trump-in-2016-says-senate-intelligence-committee
June 21: “Coincidence Number 395”: The N.R.A. Spent $30 Million to Elect Trump. Was It Russian Money?
Congressional Democrats, the F.B.I., and Robert Mueller want to know why Putin-tied oligarchs took such an interest in American gun ownership
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/the-nra-spent-dollar30-million-to-elect-trump-was-it-russian-money
July 2: Russia investigators likely got access to NRA's tax filings, secret donors
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article214075459.html
July 16: U.S. officials charge NRA-linked Russian with acting as Kremlin agent
Federal authorities on Monday charged a Russian citizen living in Washington, D.C. with conspiracy to act as an illegal agent of the Russian government, including attempting to establish "back-channel" relationships with U.S. officials on behalf of the Kremlin, the Justice Department said.
Mariia Butina, 29, was arrested Sunday in connection with what an FBI agent described in court documents as a "Russian influence operation." She made her initial appearance Monday afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson in Washington and was ordered to be held pending a hearing set for Wednesday.
... The NRA did not respond to requests for comment.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/16/russian-agent-conspiracy-guns-724470
July 31: President Donald Trump tweeted on Tuesday he is consulting with the National Rifle Association over whether it makes sense for a Texas company to publish downloadable blueprints for a 3D-printed gun.
Trump tweeted he is “looking into 3-D Plastic Guns being sold to the public,” adding that he “already spoke to NRA.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/trump-looking-into-3d-guns-says-hes-consulting-with-nra
September 20: The NRA Spent Itself Into Debt Supporting Donald Trump
https://splinternews.com/the-nra-spent-itself-into-debt-supporting-donald-trump-1829204095
October 20: Impeach Donald Trump Campaign Celebrates Having More Supporters Than NRA Has Members on One-Year Anniversary
https://www.newsweek.com/impeach-donald-trump-campaign-nra-members-1180064
October 20: Seattle gun storage law 'eminently reasonable,' judge says in tossing NRA, gun group's lawsuit
A Seattle judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the National Rifle Association and a local gun rights group against a law that will require gun owners to lock up their firearms when not carrying or using them.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/seattle-gun-storage-law-eminently-reasonable-judge-says-in-tossing-nra-gun-groups-lawsuit
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November 11: A mocking tweet from the National Rifle Association has stirred many physicians to post on social media about their tragically frequent experiences treating patients in the aftermath of gun violence.
"Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane," the NRA tweeted on Thursday. "Half of the articles in Annals of Internal Medicine are pushing for gun control. Most upsetting, however, the medical community seems to have consulted NO ONE but themselves."
"We are not anti-gun: we are anti-bullet holes in our patients," Esther Choo, a doctor and professor of emergency medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, replied on Twitter. "Most upsetting, actually, is death and disability from gun violence that is unparalleled in the world."
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/11/666762890/after-nra-mocks-doctors-physicians-reply-this-is-our-lane
November 28: A Trauma Surgeon Who Survived Gun Violence Is Taking On The NRA
For trauma surgeon Joseph Sakran, gun violence is a very personal issue. He has treated hundreds of gun wound victims, comforted anxious loved ones and told mothers and fathers that their children would not be coming home.
But Sakran's empathy for his patients and their families extends beyond the hospital. Sakran knows the pain of gun violence because he is a survivor of it; when he was 17, he took a bullet to the throat after a high school football game.
Maybe that's why he felt the need to do something when the NRA tweeted on Nov. 7, "Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane," in response to the American College of Physicians' position paper on reducing firearm injuries and deaths.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/11/28/671519701/this-trauma-surgeon-survived-gun-violence-now-hes-taking-on-the-nra
December 10: NRA leader, Jack Abramoff and GOP operative tied to alleged Russian spy Maria Butina have long history as foreign agents lobbying together
Alleged Russian spy Maria Butina has changed her plea to guilty, according to a new joint motion filed by her attorneys this morning.
As her attorneys were negotiating the plea deal, her partner, GOP operative Paul Erickson, lawyered up in light of reports swirling that he too may be targeted by federal prosecutors as a covert Russian agent.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/12/nra-leader-jack-abramoff-gop-operative-russian-spy-maria-butina-lobbying/
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April 30: As gun violence erupted across the country over the weekend, the nation's foremost gun lobby struggled with one of its biggest crises in decades.
The bitter leadership battle -- centered on the finances and management of the National Rifle Association -- comes as the political landscape on guns undergoes dramatic change: Gun safety groups are growing more powerful and mounting more forceful challenges to the NRA. And public attitudes are shifting amid a grim and growing succession of mass shootings.
... Oliver North stepped away from the NRA's presidency as part of a power struggle with longtime CEO Wayne LaPierre ...
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/30/politics/nra-leadership-infighting/index.html
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