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The NRA list includes actor Danny DeVito, right, who posted several pro-gun-control messages on his Twitter account after the massacre in Newtown, Conn. DeVito is shown with “Solitary Man” costar Michael Douglas in 2010. (Phil Caruso/Solitary Man Productions)

NRA compiles 'anti-gun' list

Michael C. Bender, William Selway Bloomberg News

Last updated Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 11:07am

WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association classifies Bob Barker as anti-gun, even though the retired game-show host sleeps with a .38-caliber pistol next to his bed, shoots skeet and donated to the group’s choice for president, Republican Mitt Romney.

Barker is among 494 people, organizations and companies on an NRA list of those holding positions it finds hostile. The roster, posted on the website of the largest U.S. pro-gun group, includes poet Maya Angelou, the United Methodist Church and the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Hatch: 'I don't intend to change' view on guns

Alan Fram The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 10:11am

WASHINGTON -- The National Rifle Association and gun-control advocates, including the husband of wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, are facing off at the year's first Senate hearing on what lawmakers should do to curb gun violence.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks with reporters following a Democratic strategy session at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

NRA snub could push Reid closer to Obama on gun control

Paul Kane The Washington Post

Last updated Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 10:31am

WASHINGTON — The success of President Barack Obama’s starkly liberal second-term agenda will rest largely on the shoulders of Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, who has been a rock-solid political ally and a valued legislative tactician for Obama during his first term.

But for the first time since Obama became president four years ago, his political interests and Reid’s may be diverging. Not so much because there is huge disagreement on the president’s agenda, but because helping Obama may hurt vulnerable Democrats in the Senate.

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Gun rights advocates demonstrate at the Pennsylvania Capital building Wednesday Jan. 23, 2013, in Harrisburg, Pa. The rally comes amid calls for a boycott of the nine-day Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show in Harrisburg next month, and a growing list of vendors pulling out of the show. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

NRA official says Obama trying to redefine gun rights

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - 10:51am

RENO, Nev. -- A top National Rifle Association official on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of seeking to redefine the rights of gun owners, telling a hunting and wildlife conservation group that the president's use of the word "absolutism" in his inauguration speech was an attack on law-abiding citizens who own firearms.

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Kids being used by both sides in gun debate, causing new debate

Felicia Sonmez The Washington Post

Last updated Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 11:33am

WASHINGTON — The move by the White House on Wednesday to feature four children at President Barack Obama’s gun-control news conference set into motion a new debate over the role of young people on the political stage.

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This frame grab image shows a scene from video released by the National Rifle Association. In a sharp pushback against any new gun regulations, the NRA posted a Web video on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, that labels President Barack Obama an "elitist hypocrite" for allowing his daughters to be protected by armed Secret Service agents while not embracing armed guards for schools. "Are the president's kids more important than yours?" a male narrator asks in the video. "Then why is he skeptical of putting armed security in schools, when his kids are protected by armed guards in their school?" (AP Photo/NRA)

NRA confident in its power to block gun control on state level

Peter Wallsten, Tom Hamburger The Washington Post

Last updated Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 11:25am

In state capitals and city halls nationwide, the National Rifle Association is demonstrating its enduring ability to thwart new firearms regulations and expand rights for gun owners — even after a school massacre in Newtown, Conn., gave the gun-control cause new momentum.

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FILE - This Jan. 20, 2009 file photo shows Barack Obama, left, taking the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts, not seen, as his wife Michelle, holds the Lincoln Bible and daughters Sasha, right and Malia, look on at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Chuck Kennedy, Pool, file)

White House calls NRA video mentioning Obama's daughters 'repugnant'

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - 12:39pm

WASHINGTON -- The White House says a National Rifle Association video referencing President Barack Obama's daughters is "repugnant and cowardly."

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This is a screen grab of new shooting a game for mobile devices tied to the National Rifle Association. This game is no longer being labeled suitable for preschoolers. "NRA: Practice Range" changed its age recommendation Tuesday from 4 years and up to at least 12 years of age, with an added warning that the game depicts realistic violence. (AP Photo/MEDL Media)

NRA shooting game no longer for preschoolers

Anne Flaherty The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 5:31pm

WASHINGTON -- A new shooting game for mobile devices tied to the National Rifle Association is no longer being labeled suitable for preschoolers. "NRA: Practice Range" changed its age recommendation Tuesday from 4 years and up to at least 12 years of age, with an added warning that the game depicts realistic violence.

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If you own guns, do it right and get properly trained

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, January 7, 2013 - 11:57pm

The National Rifle Association says it’s time for law-abiding citizens to get guns and get trained in how to use them. America’s gun culture demands it, they say, and my good friend and fellow columnist Mark Saal said as much on Sunday.

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FILE - In this May 10, 2001, file photo, El Cajon, Calif., Police department school resource officer Rich Agundez Jr., who confronted and wounded a student who attacked Granite Hills High School with a shotgun in 2001, testifies in El Cajon. The National Rifle Association’s response to a Connecticut school massacre envisions, in part, having trained, armed volunteers in every school in America. But Agundez, school safety experts and school board members say there’s a huge difference between a trained law enforcement officer who becomes part of the school family _ and a guard with a gun. (AP Photo/U-T San Diego, John Gastaldo)

Trained guards, or armed volunteers and teachers in schools?

Larry Margasak The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 28, 2012 - 5:45pm

WASHINGTON -- The student’s attack began with a shotgun blast through the windows of a California high school. Rich Agundez, the El Cajon policeman assigned to the school, felt his mind shift into overdrive.

People yelled at him amid the chaos but he didn’t hear. He experienced “a tunnel vision of concentration.”

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NRA sticks to its guns on armed guards at schools

Kevin Freking The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, December 23, 2012 - 11:23am

WASHINGTON -- The National Rifle Association on Sunday forcefully stuck to its call for placing armed police officers and security guards in every school as the best way to avoid shootings such as the recent massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

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Josh Nelson, campaign manager, CREDO Mobile, center, speaks after his group was denied entrance to the Williard InterContinental Hotel where they wanted to deliver a petition to the National Rifle Association calling for the NRA to get out of the way of gun control, as the NRA is having a news conference in Washington, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Obama: Outpouring of support for stricter gun control

Ken Thomas The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 21, 2012 - 11:55am

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says his administration has received an outpouring of support for stricter gun laws following last week's elementary school massacre in Connecticut, telling respondents to an online petition, "We hear you."

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Tasha Devoe, left, of Lawrence, Mass., joins a march to the National Rifle Association headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. Curbing gun violence will be a top priority of President Barack Obama's second term, aides say. but exactly what he'll pursue and how quickly are still evolving. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

NRA, gun-rights groups prepare to battle over firearms control

Isaac Wolf Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - 10:56am

WASHINGTON — To the firearms lobby, calls for enhanced gun control following Friday’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School represent far more than the rekindling of a dormant policy debate.

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A protestor holds a banner during a march to the National Rifle Association headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. Curbing gun violence will be a top priority of President Barack Obama's second term, aides say. but exactly what he'll pursue and how quickly are still evolving. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Protesters target NRA offices

Fredrick Kunkle The Washington Post

Last updated Tuesday, December 18, 2012 - 11:45am

WASHINGTON - Hundreds of demonstrators swarmed the Capitol Hill office of the National Rifle Association on Monday to denounce the powerful lobby and push for new gun controls in response to Friday’s killing of 27 people, including 20 elementary school children, in Newtown, Conn.

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FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2011, file photo, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks in Washington. The next big issue in the national debate over guns _ whether people have a right to be armed in public _ is moving closer to Supreme Court review. A provocative ruling by a panel of federal appeals court judges in Chicago struck down the only statewide ban on carrying concealed weapons, in Illinois. The ruling is somewhat at odds with those of other federal courts that have largely upheld state and local gun laws, including restrictions on concealed weapons, since the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling declaring that people have a right to have a gun for self-defense. LaPierre said, "Clearly, the individual right under the Constitution does not apply only to your home. People have lives outside their home and the constitutional right applies outside their home." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

NRA silent in shooting aftermath

Philip Elliott The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 18, 2012 - 11:58am

WASHINGTON -- Where is the NRA?

The nation's largest gun-rights organization - typically outspoken about its positions even after shooting deaths - has gone all but silent since last week's rampage at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school that left 26 people dead, including 20 children.

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