NRA Boss: We're the Real Victims Here

HOUSTON — Nineteen children and two adults were murdered at the Robb Elementary School, in part because the gun lobby has made it legal for 18-year-olds in Texas to buy weapons designed for mass killing. But to hear National Rifle Association honcho Wayne LaPierre tell it, the real victim here is the NRA.   LaPierre took the stage of the National […]

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Shootings Have Surged — and Gun Companies Have Made Billions

This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to its newsletter The mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, have provided the latest and most extreme examples of a breathtaking epidemic of gun violence in the United States. More than 45,000 people died by gunfire in the first year of […]

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