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Like a courtroom version of “High Noon,” legal guns are squaring off this year in a confrontation over the Second Amendment. And whoever wins, the battle will touch off a longtime culture war that rivals Roe v. Wade, said National Rifle Association (NRA) President Sandra Froman in an April 5 visit to Harvard. Roe v. Wade is the U.S. Supreme Court decision that in 1973 affirmed a woman’s right to abortion, and it intensified a cultural debate that continues today. The debate over firearms, and how to interpret the 27 words of the Second Amendment, carries the same power to...

2. PISTOL-PACKIN' WIDOW Sandra S. Froman was the star of the annual convention of the National Rifle Association this year in Houston, Texas. So what's a nice Jewish widow -- and a Harvard-educated lawyer from San Francisco, to boot -- doing in a place like that? She's packing iron and running the show. Froman, 55, the newly elected president of the 4 million-member NRA, makes it very clear where she stands on firearms and the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees the right to bear arms. "I've never met a gun I didn't like," she says....

As a Jewish woman and Harvard-educated lawyer, Sandra Froman admits that, at least on paper, she doesn't seem the natural choice to lead the National Rifle Association. But the Second Amendment, she points out, is all about empowerment. "I've never met a gun I didn't like," says Froman, 55. "I wish I had more time to practice. My favorite gun is normally the one I was able to take out most recently, but I shoot pistols, rifles, black-powder rifles." Froman, who became the newest president of the almost 4-million strong NRA in April, explains that she didn't always love the...

City woman set to be top gun at NRA Tough defender of firearms may soften group's rhetoric By Tom Beal ARIZONA DAILY STAR It's understandable, in an organization that still divides its convention luncheons into "ladies" and "sportsmen" categories, that publicity about the National Rifle Association's incoming president highlights her gender. But while Monday's expected election of Tucson attorney Sandra Froman as president of the nearly 4 million-member organization might inject a more civil tone into the arguments over gun control in the United States, it doesn't signal a softening of NRA policies. "She's not the new pope who's gonna...

Tough defender of firearms may soften group's rhetoric By Tom Beal ARIZONA DAILY STAR It's understandable, in an organization that still divides its convention luncheons into "ladies" and "sportsmen" categories, that publicity about the National Rifle Association's incoming president highlights her gender.