{"id":12118,"date":"2015-11-20T14:07:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T19:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12118"},"modified":"2015-11-20T14:07:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T19:07:04","slug":"reids-lame-attack-on-nra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12118","title":{"rendered":"Reid&#8217;s lame attack on NRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/floor-action\/senate\/260903-reid-gop-prioritizing-nra-over-terrorism\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Reid is upset<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; \u201cRepublicans care more about kowtowing to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nra.org\" target=\"_blank\">NRA<\/a> than preventing terrorists from legally buying assault rifles and explosives like the ones used in the Paris attacks here in America,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reid.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Reid<\/a> said in a statement. \u201cShockingly, Republicans continue to preserve a loophole that allows FBI terror suspects to buy guns and explosives legally, without background checks.&#8221; &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reid sounds like a petulant child upset they&#8217;re not getting their way.\u00a0 It shows both a personal weakness for Reid as well as the antis in general in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Could be he is trying to distract attention away from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2015\/11\/18\/utah-prosecutor-says-investigating-sen-harry-reid.html\" target=\"_blank\">his other problems<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; A Utah county prosecutor said Wednesday he is investigating U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada in connection with a pay-to-play scheme involving two former Utah attorneys general &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D12118&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12118\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12118\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12118\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Reid is upset: &#8220;&#8230; \u201cRepublicans care more about kowtowing to the NRA than preventing terrorists from legally buying assault rifles and explosives like the ones used in the Paris attacks here in America,&#8221; Reid said in a statement. \u201cShockingly, Republicans continue to preserve a loophole that allows FBI terror suspects to buy guns and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D12118&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12118\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12118\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12118\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12120,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12118\/revisions\/12120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}