National Rifle Association

After the most recent school shooting left 21 dead in Uvalde, Texas, the chief executive of the NRA touted its school security program. In reality School Shield has not awarded any grants since before the pandemic.

Nearly 10 years ago, the slaughter of children at Sandy Hook Elementary School looked like it might break through the United States’ political stalemate on guns.

The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention in Houston on Friday.

Two days after a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., blasted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ahead of the governor’s planned appearance at the National Rifle Association. “What a fraud… These families don’t want thoughts and prayers. They want their elected leaders to respond to their suffering.”

One day after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, President Joe Biden spoke out Wednesday in favor of “common sense” gun control and demanded confirmation of his nominee to lead the ATF. “Where’s the backbone? Where’s the courage to stand up to a very powerful lobby?”