The advertisement is slugged: “Unleashing ‘Hell-Fire.’” It pictures a gunman, wearing a skull mask with blacked out eyes, who unloads an AR-15 that is sending spent cartridges flying from its ejection port. The ad copy reads: “All you do is squeeze the trigger and shoot at rates up to 900 …
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On Thursday in federal court in Washington, D.C., the jailed Russian national Maria Butina pleaded guilty to conspiring against the United States under the direction of a Russian official. According to the feds, Butina’s partners in this conspiracy included the official (widely identified as the former Russian senator and central …
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On Thursday, the National Rifle Association’s executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, addressed the Parkland massacre by rehashing his organizations’ talking points on gun control. LaPierre’s comments at the Conservative Political Action Conference came just over a week after a gunman used an AR-15 to kill 17 teachers and students at …
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