{"id":789,"date":"2017-02-09T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2017\/02\/09\/nra-on-sessions-confirmation-as\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:27:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:27:26","slug":"nra-on-sessions-confirmation-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"NRA On Sessions Confirmation As Attorney General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe NRA-ILA went all in on the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for Attorney General. It was made a graded vote and I think it will come back to haunt certain Democrats who are running for re-election in 2018. The only Democrat who voted for Sessions was Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) who must have been reading the political tea leaves in his home state.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, by a vote of 52 to 47, Sessions was confirmed as Attorney General.<\/p>\n<p>The NRA-ILA released this statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i><b>NRA Statement on Confirmation of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Fairfax, Va.\u2014 The National Rifle Association today issued the following statement from Chris W. Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA), applauding the U.S. Senate\u2019s confirmation of Sen. Jeff Sessions as the 84th attorney general of the United States:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NRA and our five million members would like to congratulate Jeff Sessions on his confirmation as attorney general. He will make America a safer place by prosecuting violent criminals while protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding gun owners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Senate confirmed Attorney General Sessions by a bi-partisan 52 to 47 vote.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I, for one, am happy to have an Attorney General who respects the Second Amendment and who I know in my heart of hearts won&#8217;t be authorizing another Operation Gun Walker aka Fast and Furious.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i> <\/i>\u200b <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NRA-ILA went all in on the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for Attorney General. It was made a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,1668],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nra","tag-sen-jeff-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10974,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/10974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}