{"id":19696,"date":"2019-08-09T11:58:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T15:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=19696"},"modified":"2019-08-09T11:58:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T15:58:11","slug":"senate-perceives-weakness-in-nra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=19696","title":{"rendered":"Senate perceives weakness in NRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS reports,&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mitch-mcconnell-gun-control-measures-will-be-discussed-by-senate-after-recess\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mitch McConnell says gun control measures will be discussed by Senate after recess<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcconnell.senate.gov\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell<\/a> is not calling the Senate back to Washington for an emergency session to address recent mass shootings, but gun control measures will be on the table when Congress reconvenes in September &#8230; McConnell specifically mentioned background checks, a measure that has failed to gain much ground in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Senate<\/a> and is strongly opposed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nra.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">National Rifle Association<\/a> &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Plus:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump: &quot;We have to have meaningful background checks&quot; &#8230; &quot;I think in the end Wayne and the NRA will either be there or maybe will be a little bit more neutral&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Frey (@KevinFreyTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinFreyTV\/status\/1159838719727165441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Things should not have gotten this far.  I am confidant this is a direct result of all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/nra-donor-lawsuit-lapierre-north-dellaquila-1453398\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">nonsense going on<\/a> with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nra.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NRA<\/a>.  The NRA Board needs to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savethe2a.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">get their shit together<\/a>.  Unfortunately I haven&#8217;t seen any indication of that.<\/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%3D19696&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=19696\">&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=19696\"><\/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=19696\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS reports,&#8221;Mitch McConnell says gun control measures will be discussed by Senate after recess&#8220;: &#8220;Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is not calling the Senate back to Washington for an emergency session to address recent mass shootings, but gun control measures will be on the table when Congress reconvenes in September &#8230; McConnell specifically mentioned background [&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%3D19696&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=19696\">&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=19696\"><\/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=19696\" 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":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-legislation","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19696","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=19696"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19701,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19696\/revisions\/19701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}