Gun Rights

Little-Known Charity Brings Gun Lobby, Lawmakers Together

Eric Lach | March 7, 2013, 12:13PM

Members of the 'Top Gun' Team Republican at the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation's annual Congressional Shoot-Out and Industry Challenge in 2012.

You've heard of the National Rifle Association. But have you heard of the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation?

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Gun Rights

On The Bus To Albany With New York's Gun Guys

Eric Lach | March 7, 2013, 6:10AM

The Long Island Firearms bus, en route to a large rally in Albany, N.Y., at a rest stop on Feb. 28, 2013.

ALBANY, NY — Jaime Rios is a Republican, but he loves liberals. His wife is one. Most of his other family members are, too, along with many of his friends. One friend of his, Rios says, is a "really, really, really, really, really left, left, left, left-as-left-can-go person. I think it goes off the radar left."

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Robert Menendez

Report: Dominican Escort Now Says She Made Up Menendez Claims

Eric Lach | March 4, 2013, 6:31PM

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)

One of the women who appeared in a video last fall claiming Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) paid her for sex has now told a different story to the police in the Dominican Republic, The Washington Post reported on Monday.

According to affidavits obtained by the newspaper, the woman said she and a friend appeared in the video after being approached by a lawyer. That lawyer, meanwhile, said a second lawyer provided him with a script and paid him to find the women.

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