Topic - National Rifle Association

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  Inside the Beltway

  While magnifying Republican gaffes and infighting, the mainstream press also delights in political cliffhangers, speculating on which presidential hopeful will finally blink and drop out of the race, who's flirting with a surprise announcement, who faces the impending doom of scandal.

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  Inside the Beltway

  There are rumblings that Mitt Romney, after Thursday night, may be a no-show in the six remaining GOP debates, now scheduled for Florida, Arizona, Georgia, California and Oregon through mid-March.

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  Gun makers baffled by ATF criteria

  The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is in charge of determining whether a gun model is legal, but the agency won't say much about its criteria.

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  Norquist takes unorthodox path to find his comedy

  OK, Washington joke: Grover Norquist walks into his downtown office. There's a bronze bust of Ronald Reagan, a towering stack of books, and on the windowsill of the nation's most powerful anti-tax activist rests an oversized front page from the Onion, a satirical newspaper.

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  LAPIERRE: Gun owners to count at the ballot box

  The fight for 2012 is a fight for our country, our values and our freedom, and if the National Rifle Association (NRA) has anything to say about it, Barack Obama won't get a second term. Mark these words - the NRA and America's gun owners will have plenty to say about it. President Obama doesn't want to hear that. He doesn't want gun owners active in the next election. He doesn't want to tangle with the NRA's 4 million members, or with the 30 million people who identify themselves with the NRA, or with America's 90 million gun owners.

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  Va. Democrats shift campaign focus to abortion, guns

  With a sputtering national economy looming over the state and an increasingly unpopular president, some campaigns in Northern Virginia are turning away from fiscal issues and toward social issues, such as abortion and gun rights, ahead of the Nov. 8 statewide elections.

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  D.C. gun laws test tea party's principles

  The House Judiciary Committee's decision last week to leave the District's strict gun laws alone — at least for now — appears consistent with the tea party's resistance to federal "tyranny" but at odds with the GOP-backed movement's strict adherence to language in the Constitution.

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  Memo: Holder told of 'Fast and Furious' as early as July 2010

  Eric Holder was told about the weapons investigation as early as July 2010, documents show.

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  Hearings for ATF nominee not moving fast or furiously

  Stalled in the Senate Judiciary Committee for nearly 11 months, the nomination of veteran ATF agent Andrew Traver to become the new permanent director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has little chance of being scheduled for confirmation hearings anytime soon.

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  Indiana tea party takes aim at Lugar's Senate seat

  He has served six terms in the Senate and won his last race with 87 percent of the vote, but that hasn't prevented Indiana Sen. Richard G. Lugar from emerging as perhaps the most vulnerable Republican senator of the 2012 election cycle. And the big danger is coming from Mr. Lugar's right flank.

• Inside Politics

  Charlotte officials plan to buttress the city's sizable police force with about 3,400 extra officers during the 2012 Democratic National Convention to help protect top politicians from across the country, most notably the president.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'Gun Fight'

  Anti-gun-rights books are common enough. But they never quite resonate with the public because they avoid the well-documented history. To rewrite history in this way, they fail to acknowledge that "militia," as defined in early dictionaries, included all able-bodied males; they also ignore the fact that the phrase "the people," as it is used in other parts of the U.S. Constitution, is always used in the context of "we the people."

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  NUGENT: The American battle cry today

  I'm addicted to freedom. My band, my crew, my family, my hunting buddies, all my friends, neighbors and fellow hardworking, hard-playing Americans solidly in the asset column will simply have it no other way. There is an American way, and we live it.

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  EDITORIAL: The right to bear arms

  Illinois has the worst gun laws of any state. Only police officers and the taxpayer-funded bodyguards for ex-Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley have the right to carry a handgun outside their homes. Everyone else is out of luck - unless a pair of federal lawsuits filed last week succeed in arguing that the Second Amendment right to "keep and bear Arms" means that people can actually bear arms in the land of Lincoln.

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  Anti-DOMA law firm loses two clients

  More than a week after a top Atlanta law firm dropped the contract to defend the federal marriage statute under pressure from gay groups, the legal and public relations fallout shows no signs of easing.

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