National Rifle Association

Hours after a gun-toting student was arrested at St. John's University, Manhattan resident Vera Reale and about a hundred others attended the annual dinner for the NRA's New York City chapter. In this clip, Reale, an auxiliary police officer, said she grew up with guns in her house, thinks Michael Bloomberg is a good mayor, but that he's wrong on gun control.

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to  read more »

Backlash to Mayor Bloomberg's national war on ilegal gun dealers has surfaced in Georgia, where Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr filed a lawsuit against the mayor today arguing that his crackdown was "careless, willful and clearly illegal."

Supporters of Mr. Barr's have suggested the lawsuoit it is about the second amendment, Bloomberg has long held that his lawsuit was about gun dealers breaking the law and allowing illegal arms to flow into the city.

Mr. Barr's press office at the American Conservative Union said that practically all of New York media has tied up their phones since the announcement, and that Barr was, for now, unavailbale to comment beyond the press release they sent us (after the jump).

In the small print on the bottom, we noticed that he serves on the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association.  read more »

-- Jason Horowitz UPDATE: We spoke with Mr. Barr's personal spokesperson and not the press office of the American Conservative Union.

A lot of idle media speculation had the National Rifle Association secretly nixing Bloomberg-girlfriend Diana Taylor's FDIC nomination.

Over at Urban Elephants, NRA head Wayne LaPierre, speaking at a Young Republicans gala dinner over the weekend, was asked directly about this, and answered.

Follow the link for Mr. LaPierre's speculation on how it happened.

- Tom McGeveran

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Over the past few months, we have been hearing a lot of cigar-chomping chatter about the "tough New  read more »