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The NRA's Top Lawyer Was Once Convicted Of Murder (ZOT!)
Business Insider ^ | 7/29/14 | Pamela Engel

Posted on 07/30/2014 7:49:34 AM PDT by PlasticMan

The National Rifle Association's top lawyer, who has been instrumental in shaping gun policy in the U.S., was once convicted of murdering a woman in Indiana....

Robert J. Dowlut, general counsel for the NRA, reportedly admitted to police in 1963 that he killed his girlfriend's mother. He was 17 years old at the time. Dowlut reportedly led police to the graveyard where he buried the gun and also copped to attempting to rob a pawnshop the same night as the killing.

Bullets from the gun Dowlut unearthed at the graveyard matched those found at the site of Anna Marie Yocum's murder and at the pawnshop, according to Mother Jones.

A jury found Dowlut guilty of murder, but his conviction was later overturned because of shoddy police work during the investigation....

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: banglist; crime; dowlut; guncontrol; murder; nra; secondamendment; zot
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To: PlasticMan
So a lawyer for an organization you don't like said he did something bad at age 17 and it's suddenly breaking news? According to Mother Jones?

Why not just tattoo "STUPID" on your forehead? And a bullseye on your butt?

61 posted on 07/30/2014 10:55:23 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: TheOldLady

**Sidebar takes a bow*** ;)


62 posted on 07/30/2014 10:56:44 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator
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To: Sidebar Moderator
You deserve it!

Standing O!




63 posted on 07/30/2014 11:15:00 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: trisham

Righteous! ;-)


64 posted on 07/30/2014 11:16:54 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Monkey Face

In this case, I agree!


65 posted on 07/30/2014 11:17:26 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: PlasticMan

this was all over NPR this morning.

NPR should have its tax exempt status revoked.


66 posted on 07/30/2014 11:18:00 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Dr. Sivana

NPR’s spin was that the second amendment should NOT be a civil right for individuals.

IOW some rights were bad and should not be allowed for the greater good of the left wing NYC liberals.


67 posted on 07/30/2014 11:20:24 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: TheOldLady

;)


68 posted on 07/30/2014 11:21:15 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator
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To: Graybeard58

Fans? Do you mean minions? I think they’re afraid of me.

But TheOldLady just pawn in game of life...

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69 posted on 07/30/2014 11:22:28 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Valpal1; All

I have read some of Dowlut’s article. They have been quite good.


70 posted on 07/30/2014 11:41:36 AM PDT by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: longtermmemmory

The real purpose of NPR has always to push for more government. They are government. It is in their assumptions about reality.


71 posted on 07/30/2014 11:45:07 AM PDT by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: Col Freeper

LOL,,,


72 posted on 07/30/2014 11:45:15 AM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. Doggies Rock.)
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To: PlasticMan
“Don't Forget to “Share” your experiences, here on FR, with all of your Plastic friends of Fa*eBook now!”
Don't you have anything better to do with your life ,other than trying to cause trouble on Internet forums?
Is life in Mother's Basement that Boring for you?
Save up all of that Troll cash and go see the World. (That big scary thing you see out of the Window.)
73 posted on 07/30/2014 11:56:42 AM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. Doggies Rock.)
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To: PlasticMan

I don’t care if he is a murderer; He is worse, he is a lawyer.


74 posted on 07/30/2014 11:57:49 AM PDT by Nota particle
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To: Nota particle

http://freerepublic.com/tag/by:notaparticle/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change

o_O ???


75 posted on 07/30/2014 12:00:55 PM PDT by Darksheare (I don't have a copy. one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Valpal1

You should send them a thank-you email. Everyone likes a pat on the back.


76 posted on 07/30/2014 12:31:08 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: PlasticMan; TheOldLady
Hi, Plastic Man. I'm playing with your sack.

It's empty.


77 posted on 07/30/2014 1:08:44 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: PlasticMan
In after the (ZOT)


Hey, I was working and missed it.

78 posted on 07/30/2014 1:29:36 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: PlasticMan

Bite on a bullet, this is gonna hurt a little...


79 posted on 07/30/2014 1:38:45 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We all know what a quality news source the Business Insider is...
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80 posted on 07/30/2014 1:41:53 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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