Activists against gun violence petition Obama administration to cancel grant to foundation,whose offices are near site of Sandy Hook school shootingThe National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the gun industry’s Newtown, and Connecticut-based national trade organization and lobbying organization,has received a $2.4m federal grant to promote gun locks and firearm safety. It is an award the group says is its first under the administration of Barack Obama. For a group that became a regular thing of protests following the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, in which 20 young children and six adults were killed, and the grant is an indication it is beginning to come in from the cold. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com