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US Gun Lobby Says It's Fighting a 'Culture War'

US Gun Lobby Says It's Fighting a 'Culture War'

The members of America's most powerful gun lobby are fighting a "culture war" that goes beyond gun rights, says the National Rifle Association's incoming president. (May 3)

NRA attendee Janet Bero waits to have her German Luger appraised during the NRA's Antiques Guns and Gold Showcase during the National Rifle Association's 142 Annual Meetings and Exhibits at the George R. Brown Convention Center Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Houston. NRA's Antiques Guns and Gold Showcase is a television show that runs on the Sportsman Channel.The 2013 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits runs from Friday, May 3, through Sunday, May 5. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Johnny Hanson)

NRA official: 'Culture war' more than gun rights

The National Rifle Association kicked off its annual convention Friday with a warning to its member they are engaged in a "culture war" that stretches beyond gun rights, further ramping up emotions surrounding the gun control debate. NRA First Vice President James Porter, a Birmingham, Ala., attorney who will assume ...

NRA attendees make their way into the George R. Brown Convention Center before the opening of the National Rifle Association's 142 Annual Meetings and Exhibits at the George R. Brown Convention Center Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Houston. The 2013 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits runs from Friday, May 3, through Sunday, May 5. More than 70,000 are expected to attend the event with more than 500 exhibitors represented. The convention will features training and education demos, the Antiques Guns and Gold Showcase, book signings, speakers including Glenn Beck, Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin as well as NRA Youth Day on Sunday. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Johnny Hanson)

Palin: Leaders exploiting tragedy of shootings

Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin says recent mass shootings have prompted leaders in Washington, D.C., to exploit tragedy in order to limit the freedoms of law-abiding people. Palin spoke at the National Rifle Association's convention Friday afternoon in Houston. She said while she and others were saddened and ...

An investigators looks over a destroyed fertilizer plant in West, Texas, Thursday, May 2, 2013. Investigators face a slew of challenges in figuring out what caused the explosion at the fertilizer plant that killed 14 people and destroyed part of the small Texas town. (AP Photo/Pool/ LM Otero, Pool)

Officials: No breakthrough yet in Texas explosion

Investigators working to figure out what caused a massive, deadly fertilizer plant explosion in Texas have talked to more than 370 people and received more than 200 tips as they continue to search for a breakthrough. Two weeks after the April 17 blast that killed at least 14 people, agents ...

Man Killed After Firing Shot at Houston Airport

Man Killed After Firing Shot at Houston Airport

A man who had fired a gun inside a ticketing area at Houston's airport was killed after being confronted by a law enforcement official during an incident that sent people in the terminal scrambling, police said Thursday. (May 2)

BP to pay $18M for Texas Gulf restoration work

BP PLC has agreed to finance five Gulf restoration projects in Texas expected to cost a total of $18 million. In a statement issued Thursday, BP said the projects are part of its commitment to provide up to $1 billion in early restoration funding to repair the damage from the ...

MLB, players give $100K to Texas explosion victims

Major League Baseball and the players association are donating a combined $100,000 to victims of the Texas fertilizer plant explosion that killed at least 14 people and injured about 200. The league says Thursday it will encourage fans to donate during games on national television and with signage behind home ...

This combination of Associated Press file photos shows, left, an undated driver's license photo distributed by police in 2002 of Brenda Heist, and right, an April 26, 20013 photo of Heist taken by the Monroe County, Fla. Sheriff's Office and released by the Lititz Borough, Pa. Police. Lititz Borough Police in central Pennsylvania say Heist, who disappeared after dropping off her children for school 11 years ago has been located in Florida. (AP Photo)

Daughter voices anger at mom found after 11 years

The teenage daughter of a woman who just revealed she abandoned her family 11 years ago said Thursday the disclosure has angered her and she is not eager to restart their relationship. Morgan Heist, who learned last week Brenda Heist had surfaced in the Florida Keys, said the news has ...

Security at Bush Intercontinental Airport stand at the bottom of the escalators as police investigate a shooting near Terminal B on Thursday, May 2, 2013 in Houston.   Shots were fired near a ticket counter, critically injuring one armed man and sending people in the terminal scrambling and screaming, a Houston police spokesman and witnesses said.   One person has been taken to an area hospital with life threatening injuries. It was not immediately clear who fired the shots.  (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Cody Duty) MANDATORY CREDIT

Shots fired at Houston airport; 1 injured

Shots were fired near a ticket counter at Houston's largest airport on Thursday, critically injuring one armed man and sending people in the terminal scrambling and screaming, a Houston police spokesman and witnesses said. A call that there had been a "discharge of firearms" came into police at 1:35 p.m., ...

The casket for country music legend George Jones lies in the Grand Ole Opry House before his funeral on Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Nashville, Tenn. Jones, one of country music's biggest stars who had No. 1 hits in four separate decades, died April 26. He was 81. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, Pool)

Music City mourns country legend George Jones

For a guy who sang so many sad songs, George Jones left behind a lot of laughs. There was more humor than sadness at Jones' funeral Thursday at the Grand Ole Opry House as thousands gathered in Nashville — some arriving hours before sunrise — to pay their respects to ...

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