Anti-Gun Outrage Over American Rifleman Cover

By Tom Knighton

Earlier today, I discussed how the anti-gun media will latch onto anything they can to paint pro-gun activists as violent thugs.

To give you another example, we have the NRA. Now, the NRA doesn’t trip over their own junk on a day-to-day basis. In fact, they didn’t here, either. However, an anti-gun media, coupled with anti-gun lawmakers, will manipulate anything they can to paint that picture.

On their latest issue of American Rifleman, the words they use to discuss anti-gun policies proposed by congressional Democrats are raising all kinds of a stink.

The NRA magazine The American Rifleman’s March 2019 cover has set off the left. (See update at bottom of article.) Democrats have a short fuse in the gun rights debate anyway, but the current outrage is particularly unserious. The cover features a photo op Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats, including former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, took when Pelosi spoke about universal background check legislation Democrats are putting up for a vote next week. Next to that photo is the NRA’s wording – “Target Practice” with the subtitle “Congressional Democrats target gun owners for persecution with extreme firearm transfer bans.”

Former Rep. Giffords was nearly killed …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms