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The National Rifle Association has long been a powerful and feared gun lobby. President Clinton believes that it was his shunning of the NRA in passing the 1993 Brady Bill - which put reasonable restrictions on the purchases of guns - that, nonetheless,..
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Gun-control activist Bryan Miller, the executive director of Ceasefire NJ, poses for a portrait in his office in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008. Miller said he feels betrayed by Mary Lou McFate, a gun-control activist who championed the cause for..
