{"id":13049,"date":"2016-05-21T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13049"},"modified":"2016-05-21T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T20:45:00","slug":"nra-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13049","title":{"rendered":"NRA endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/nra-endorse-donald-trump-president\/story?id=39253893\" target=\"_blank\">NRA endorsed The Donald yesterday<\/a>.\u00a0 From what I have seen gun owners are not jumping for joy over the choice between him and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryclinton.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s<\/a> record on guns can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/brief-history-donald-trumps-stance-gun-rights-461705\" target=\"_blank\">at best be called mixed<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nra.org\" target=\"_blank\">NRA<\/a> is making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/03\/confirmations-the-battle-over-the-constitution\/475671\/\" target=\"_blank\">Justice Scalia&#8217;s replacement<\/a> the issue and pitched him as being more likely to nominate pro-gun justices to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\" target=\"_blank\">SCOTUS<\/a> than Hillary.\u00a0 That is a hard sell and given Trump&#8217;s past political history is very much debatable.<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t matter much here in New York anyway.\u00a0 With the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elections.ny.gov\/NYSBOE\/enrollment\/county\/county_apr16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Democrats 2-1 enrollment advantage<\/a> Hillary should easily win the state.<\/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%3D13049&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=13049\">&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=13049\"><\/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=13049\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NRA endorsed The Donald yesterday.\u00a0 From what I have seen gun owners are not jumping for joy over the choice between him and Hillary. 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