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Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 24, 2017 in a speech at CPAC:

"According to the FBI, Mexican drug cartels are working with 100,000 street gang members in Chicago alone."

By Miriam Valverde • March 14, 2017
Wayne LaPierre
stated on March 24, 2013 in an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press:

Says New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says "we can only have three bullets" and "the NRA wants firearms with nukes on them."

By Becky Bowers • March 26, 2013
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 13, 2013 in an article in the Daily Caller:

Says after Hurricane Sandy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg "refused to allow the National Guard into the city to restore civil order because Guardsmen carry guns!"

By Becky Bowers • February 20, 2013
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 13, 2013 in an op-ed for the Daily Caller:

"The president flagrantly defies the 2006 federal law ordering the construction of a secure border fence along the entire Mexican border."

By Molly Moorhead • February 20, 2013
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 13, 2013 in an op-ed in the Daily Caller:

"Phoenix is already one of the kidnapping capitals of the world."

By Louis Jacobson • February 19, 2013
Wayne LaPierre
stated on January 30, 2013 in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee:

"As a result of National Rifle Association and other private-sector (safety-education) programs, fatal firearms accidents are at the lowest level in 100 years."

By Louis Jacobson • February 1, 2013
Wayne LaPierre
stated on April 14, 2012 in a speech to a national meeting of the National Rifle Association:

"By the time I finish this speech, two Americans will be slain, six women will be raped, 27 of us will be robbed, and 50 more will be beaten."

By Louis Jacobson • April 16, 2012
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 10, 2012 in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference:

Says Barack Obama "endorsed a total ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of all handguns."

By Becky Bowers • February 13, 2012
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 27, 2009 in a CPAC conference:

Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for regulatory czar, "wants to give legal standing to animals so they can sue you for eating meat."

By Robert Farley • May 5, 2009