The executive vice president of the National Rifle Association fired back at President Barack Obama on Thursday, one week after he announced his executive action on gun control and held a televised town hall explaining his proposal to curb gun violence.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is on a mission to kill a proposal that would ban armor-piercing "green tip" bullets. The Republican, widely considered a presidential hopeful in the 2016 White House race, urged his backers to flood the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives with public comments to get the agency to back off the initiative.
Hours after Tuesday's shooting at an Oregon high school where an alleged teen gunmen shot a 14-year-old male student dead and injured a teacher before reportedly killing himself, President Barack Obama rebuked members of Congress for its failure to pass comprehensive firearm legislation.
A gun rights activist group known as Open Carry Texas and the National Rifle Association are at odds over the demonstrative act of openly carrying weapons in public places.
The father of 20-year-old Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez, who was killed by Elliot Rodger in a local deli, blamed the National Rifle Association and "craven politicians" for the death of his son. Many Latinos say they feel similarly.
