Today's N.R.A. is, in reality, nothing more than a gun industry trade association masquerading as a shooting sports foundation. The organization's agenda is increasingly focused on one goal: selling more guns. — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
... immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury… — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
One tenet of the National Rifle Association's faith has always been that handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns. For once, the NRA is right and America's leading handgun control organization is wrong. Criminals don't buy guns in gun stores. That's why they're criminals. But it isn't criminals who are killing most of the 20,000 to 22,000… — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share
You can't get around the image of people shooting at people toprotect their stores and it working. This is damaging to the [guncontrol] movement. — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
The word 'hate' is a very carefully chosen word. There's got to be a real sense of revulsion and disgust. People are looking for… — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product.… — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully… — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
Fear, physical pain, and death are just part of the price Americans pay for the easy access of handguns. It is estimated that the… — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
Although the District of Columbiahas had a ban on handgun sale and possession since 1976, Washingtonresidents are held hostage by the lax gun laws… — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
Americans are ready to hate somebody -- and it's going to be the gun industry. — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
Today's N.R.A. is, in reality, nothing more than a gun industry trade association masquerading as a shooting sports foundation. The organization's agenda is increasingly… — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
The NRA is right...handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns. — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
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