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National Rifle Association

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Gun Nutty: State Pistol Permits Reportedly Hit Record Numbers, Thanks to Boogyman Barack

    "The fear of not being able to buy guns," Stephen Colbert said last month, "has led to buying so many guns that now they can't buy any guns, just like they feared." He was referring to the run on guns that followed the Trayvon Martin shooting and NRA claims of a "massive Obama conspiracy" in which t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    Watch Now: A Collection of Stupid Shit Ted Nugent Has Said

    Rock star, hunter and camouflage advocate Ted Nugent is scheduled to meet with the Secret Service today, set to discuss some controversial remarks he made last weekend at a National Rifle Association convention. After telling a group of gathered gun lovers, "If Barack Obama becomes the president in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Comment of the Day: There's a Big Difference Between Loaded and Unloaded

    Last Friday Daily Weekly mentioned the case of 43-year-old Kirk Turya and his gun. Turya, a 43-year-old former Kelso reserve police officer and current long-haul trucker, says Longview City Attorney Steve Shuman is making getting his 9mm Glock back a real pain in the neck. The gun, you see, was invo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    You Can Keep Packing Heat In Seattle Parks, Supreme Court Overrules Gun Ban

    Two Seattle mayors have now tried to ban guns from public parks and community centers. But this week the Second Amendment Foundation, National Rifle Association, and five permitted gun owners who sued the city were vindicated in Washington State's Supreme Court.

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    Mudhoney's Mark Arm Digs NPR's News, Not Music: "Jesus Christ! That's the Last Thing I Would Turn to NPR For"

    Jim Bennett​Mark Arm is a Seattle rock elder statesman. After fronting Green River, the band that would spawn Pearl Jam, he went on to form Mudhoney and lead the way for what would become grunge and the Seattle sound. Twenty years after Nirvana and Pearl Jam erupted with Nevermind and Ten, Arm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2011

    Alan Gottlieb, Bellevue Gun Nut, Finds Exploiting Tucson Tragedy 'Unconscionable' . . . Unless It's His Group Doing It

    Gottlieb​That was fast. Save for a few TV talking heads, chatter about new gun controls has faded away just a week after the anti-gun rage over Jared Loughner's extended-cartridge Glock 19. Duke professor Philip Cook told Salon it's likely because "Those who favor a modicum of gun regulation a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    The Five Coolest Old Gun Ads

    ​Buying a gun used to be like buying a savings bond: it was something you did as much for you as for your country. But now guns are under attack! If it wasn't for the Supreme Court, the NRA and the Second Amendment Foundation there would be almost no one to stand up for guns and the people who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    Supreme Court Approves Bellevue Gunners' Second Amendment Challenge to Chicago Ban

    Steven DeWallGottlieb​As most court observers predicted - even getting the score right - the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today that the right to keep and bear arms applies to states, counties and cities, which will lead to elimination of most local gun bans but could also result in new gun-co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Starbucks' Decision to Allow Guns in Coffee Shops Getting Shot Down, Says Brady Center

    ​More than 35,000 have now signed the Brady Center's petition urging Starbucks to ban guns in its coffee stores. Additionally, a wide-ranging Brady poll taken after Howard Schultz chose to let customers openly wear guns in his stores (while barring employees from doing so because it could be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2009

    The Reasonable Man Behind the City Gun Ban Lawsuit

    Bob Warden and his .40 caliber glock moments before being turned away from a community center.​The legal term pro se (meaning someone who forgoes a lawyer in order to represent themselves in cour) is normally a handy way of identifying a kook. Someone who's crazy. A person usually only goes pr ... More >>

  • News

    November 11, 2009

    Cover Story: Barack & Load

    Alan Gottlieb’s challenge to a gun ban in the President’s adopted hometown has made it all the way to the Supreme Court, and fattened the ex-con’s wallet in the process.

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    Will a Cold-Blooded Cop-Killing Convince Legislators to Ban Assault Weapons?

    State gun control advocates are still trying to bury these​Tragic as it was, the cold-blooded drive-by shooting of Officer Timothy Brenton over the weekend handed supporters of a proposed state assault weapons ban with a compelling case to take to Olympia. Even though police say they have not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2009

    Do Only a Few Support Seattle Parks Gun Ban?

    ​Just how popular is Mayor Nickels' parks gun ban in lefty Seattle? Alex Gottlieb of Bellevue's pro-gun Second Amendment Foundation says only eight percent of Seattlites back the ban, according to figures he obtained from the mayor's office, while just two percent of outsiders support it. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    McGinn Gun-Ban Robo Calls: More Idealism Gone Wrong

    If he's smart enough to wear a helmet, he's smart enough to know he's wrong on this one.​Mike McGinn keeps making this choice easier. The P-I points to Sunday's mayoral debate and asks if the robo calls produced by the McGinn campaign trying to tie opponent Joe Mallahan to the NRA will actuall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2008

    Duff McKagan: An Enlightening Trip (Abroad)

    If he's smart enough to wear a helmet, he's smart enough to know he's wrong on this one.​Mike McGinn keeps making this choice easier. The P-I points to Sunday's mayoral debate and asks if the robo calls produced by the McGinn campaign trying to tie opponent Joe Mallahan to the NRA will actuall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    It's Not Hillary, It's...Sarah Palin

    If he's smart enough to wear a helmet, he's smart enough to know he's wrong on this one.​Mike McGinn keeps making this choice easier. The P-I points to Sunday's mayoral debate and asks if the robo calls produced by the McGinn campaign trying to tie opponent Joe Mallahan to the NRA will actuall ... More >>

  • News

    April 23, 2008

    Free Association, But Not for a Political Party

    A private organization ought to be able to have some control over its message by determining who can associate with it.

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2008

    Free Association, But Not For A Political Party

    A private organization ought to be able to have some control over its message by determining who can associate with it.

  • News

    March 5, 2008

    Three Seattle Guys Want to Bar-Code Bullets

    Second Amendment junkies hate that idea

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2007

    Barfly, Hope and Spaghetto

    Second Amendment junkies hate that idea

  • News

    September 22, 2004

    Police, Politics

    Second Amendment junkies hate that idea

  • News

    July 28, 2004

    Officer Down

    He was more than a cop, more than a union president. More than anyone, straight-shooting Ken Saucier shaped SPD's public image.

  • News

    April 28, 2004

    Powwows and Pioneers

    He was more than a cop, more than a union president. More than anyone, straight-shooting Ken Saucier shaped SPD's public image.

  • Arts

    February 11, 2004

    This Week's Reads

    Max Barry and Peter Manseau & Jeff Sharlet.

  • News

    May 14, 2003

    May 14-20, 2003

    Were talking about four more years of Bush-appointed judges deciding cases brought by John Ashcrofts Justice Department. . . .

  • News

    May 7, 2003

    ACLU, Meet the NRA

    Saving the Constitution is more important than beating Bush.

  • Film

    January 29, 2003

    Throwing Stones

    Palestinian suffering is seen through a cracked lens.

  • Film

    January 15, 2003

    The Marxist Brothers

    Frenchman Chris Marker mourns the decline of the left, but Comrade Michael Moore is reraising the red flag.

  • News

    December 25, 2002

    The List

    Frenchman Chris Marker mourns the decline of the left, but Comrade Michael Moore is reraising the red flag.

  • News

    November 27, 2002

    "I think of the state as a public company, and I am a shareholder—and . . . I want things done differently."

    Frenchman Chris Marker mourns the decline of the left, but Comrade Michael Moore is reraising the red flag.

  • Film

    October 16, 2002

    Gun Nut

    Michael Moore shoots his mouth off, aimlessly.

  • News

    December 19, 2001

    Unsolved murder

    Investigation into the shooting of Tom Wales moves slowly.

  • News

    November 8, 2000

    A mysterious cavity

    Investigation into the shooting of Tom Wales moves slowly.

  • News

    September 13, 2000

    The patriot

    A right-wing revolutionary runs for Governor.

  • News

    August 2, 2000

    First at war

    Congressman Jay "Seattle Slew" Inslee is in a horse race with state Senator Dan "Old Dobbin" McDonald.

  • News

    June 21, 2000

    Raid on Maya's

    A local drug case helps change US forfeiture law.

  • News

    June 21, 2000

    Gays & guns

    NRA members and queers get together at a shooting range in Redmond.

  • Diversions

    June 14, 2000

    The NRA Café reaches Seattle.

    NRA members and queers get together at a shooting range in Redmond.

  • Diversions

    November 10, 1999

    Pardoning Heidi Fleiss, and other foibles of the celebrity president.

    NRA members and queers get together at a shooting range in Redmond.

  • News

    August 25, 1999

    Pragmatic picnic

    Mainstream Republicans show signs of life at this year's GOP Vashon barbecue.

  • News

    June 30, 1999

    Letters

    "I like to pick up the Weekly and read interesting articles from the 'let's slander successful local big businesses and symbolically save the whales/kids/damp areas' fringe group."

  • News

    June 9, 1999

    Gunning amok

    "I like to pick up the Weekly and read interesting articles from the 'let's slander successful local big businesses and symbolically save the whales/kids/damp areas' fringe group."

  • News

    June 9, 1999

    Target: Slade

    Democrats say Gorton's vulnerable, but talk is cheap.

  • Music

    April 28, 1999

    Guns 'n' records

    How a nation blamed a 'Seattle band' for the Littleton shootings.

  • News

    January 27, 1999

    The session's first battles are fought with guns, traps, and dogs.

    How a nation blamed a 'Seattle band' for the Littleton shootings.

  • News

    November 25, 1998

    Wacking it

    Is the ultraconservative legislator in Olympia an endangered species?

  • News

    October 28, 1998

    Our Endorsements

    I-200: Affirmative Action

  • News

    August 12, 1998

    Good 'Times'!

    I-200: Affirmative Action

  • News

    August 12, 1998

    Letters

    Cook's a crook

  • News

    July 29, 1998

    Gunning for Dunn

    Can the Dems' new soccer mom wrest the Eastside from the GOP's pro-gun powerhouse?

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