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(CNSNews.com) - Tens of thousands of Second Amendment supporters and gun enthusiasts are flocking to downtown Milwaukee for the 135th annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, which begins on Friday. Retired Gen. Tommy Franks will give the keynote speech at the banquet on Saturday night. "The convention is a celebration of the American freedom we have to own firearms," Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's executive vice president, was quoted as saying. He described the convention as "an uplifting event on firearms, hunting, recreation shooting, collecting, self-defense, crime protection and defending our 2nd Amendment rights to own and bear arms." Press...

Ad Campaign Begins Tomorrow, NRA Reacts to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita: The National Rifle Association is fired up. ABC News has learned that the powerful gun group will launch a new campaign on Thursday when it convenes its annual convention in Milwaukee and demand that police chiefs and mayors pledge to never confiscate weapons from law-abiding citizens in the wake of disasters such as hurricanes or terrorist attacks. "We are going to ask every mayor and every police chief in America to take a pledge that they will never go door-to-door confiscating firearms from law-abiding citizens," Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president...

·11250 Waples Mill Road ·   Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683 Whose Side Are They On? Friday, May 19, 2006 In a press conference Thursday, May 18, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris Cox announced a two-part initiative to ensure that the forcible confiscation of lawfully owned firearms—such as occurred in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina—never happens again.  As Wayne LaPierre aptly noted, “When the Second Amendment is only as good as your mayor or your police chief says it is, the NRA must take action.”The first part of this important initiative consists of the nation’s mayors and...

<p>A key House Republican introduced legislation yesterday to temporarily cut legal immigration to the United States by about 20 percent as part of a broad reform of immigration laws.</p> <p>Rep. George W. Gekas, Pennsylvania Republican, the chairman of the immigration subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, said government agencies need time to restructure and to catch up with the current backlog of applications.</p>