Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Mitt romney nra

  • Mitt Romney publicly distanced himself from the National Rifle Association on Wednesday afternoon, though he declined to specify the policies on which he and the gun lobby disagreed.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Mitt Romney, responding to the deadly shooting rampage Williams prodded Romney on another past statement: "I don't line up with the NRA," Romney said during an unsuccessful bid for the US Senate in 1994.
  • (Boston Globe)
  • As he has on so many other issues, Mitt Romney has executed a major flip-flop on gun rights—and told some mistruths along the way. Jesse Singal takes us through Romney's gun past. The man with the NRA hat presented a unique challenge to Mitt Romney.
  • (Daily Beast)
  • And as recently as 2002, when Mitt Romney ran for governor of Massachusetts Lugar lost to a more conservativetea partycandidate who won the NRAs endorsement. Like other Republicans, Romney has taken note of the NRAs muscle.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • In April, presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney warned the National Rifle Association But during his political career, Romney clashed with the NRA during separate runs for U.S. Senate and governor in Massachusetts.
  • (The Business Insider)
  • that ban expired in 2004 as a result of fierce lobbying by the NRA. Its long past time to reinstate the federal ban on assault weapons like the AR-15.
  • (President Obama and Governor Romney: Ask Congress to reinstate the federal assault weapons - PR Inside)
  • Mitt Romney distanced himself today from an unnamed adviser He said he shares a "common commitment" with the NRA on protecting the Second Amendment. "Their agenda is not entirely identical with my own," Romney told NBC News.
  • (Tucson Citizen)
  • With GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney — an unabashed gun-rights supporter — running "The dividing line is the checkout counter,'' Keane said, noting NRA's membership of four million gun owners.
  • (MySanAntonio)

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