Pass The Ammo

I am pretty excited about this new bit. The NRA is starting up its own news agency, with their first reporter, Cam Edwards, a conservative talk radio host from Oklahoma. NRANews.com plans to start online broadcasts Friday.

“If that’s the only way to bring back the First Amendment, we’re going to bring it back,” Wayne LaPierre, NRA executive vice president, told The Associated Press. Under the nation’s campaign finance law, he said, “if you own the news operation, you can say whatever you want. If you don’t, you’re gagged.”

The NRA plans to own a news operation “just as Disney owns ABC, just as GE owns NBC, just as Time Warner AOL owns CNN, and be the broadcast journalist equivalent of those outlets,” LaPierre said.

“Who’s to say they’re any more legitimate on packaging news to the American public on firearms and hunting than the National Rifle Association, when in fact we’ve been in the news business longer than they have in terms of packaging news on those subjects?” he asked.

I can’t wait, they should have done this a LONG time ago. Read the whole story.