NOUN
- a powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government
How To Use National Rifle Association In A Sentence
- First examine this 1981 exchange between the strip's resident outlaw and a flunky from the National Rifle Association, set in a Washington bar.
- National Rifle Association : you shoot them and take the parachute.
- Then in recent years, 31 states passed laws, promoted by the National Rifle Association, allowing people to carry concealed weapons.
- The National Rifle Association and other advocates of firearms rights are expected to vigorously oppose these proposals.
- This is a perfectly sensible idea, but predictably, the National Rifle Association and its congressional allies are trying to kill the new rule, which goes into effect on Sunday.
- The legislature also passed the National Rifle Association's bill to prohibit cities and counties from adopting local gun-control ordinances, the same measure I had vetoed in 1989.
- I understand how important the right to bear arms is to many, many Americans," Sotomayor told Leahy, adding that one of her godchildren is a member of the National Rifle Association and she has friends who hunt. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
- The Monitor's editor told me that there are four groups in America that a journalist should be careful not to annoy: the right-to-lifers, the pro-abortionists, the pro-Israeli lobby and the National Rifle Association.
- And even though he rather sportingly accredited his success to the Sports Authority of India, the Ministry of Sports and the National Rifle Association, I have no doubt that he is a winner because of his own efforts.
- The National Rifle Association then boycotted the company, devastating its stock price and destroying the proposed settlement.