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Blood on their hands: Rise in mass shootings doesn’t stop NRA ratcheting up rhetoric at annual meet

Marion McKeone reports from Indianapolis, where the National Rifle Association’s annual meet witnessed arguably the most menacing anti-government messaging ever to emerge from the powerful US lobbying group despite 648 mass shootings last year and 160 so far this year

An attendee views rifles and shotguns at last week’s National Rifle Association annual convention in Indianapolis. Picture: Bloomberg

In 1933, the notorious Depression-era bank robber and Indianapolis native John Dillinger relieved the State Bank on Massachusetts Avenue of $25,000. Now, at what has been renamed the Art Bank, this event is printed on an A4 piece of paper and posted inside its door along with faded copies of newspaper reports about the raid.

Dillinger, no slouch when it came to guns, personifies the eternal National Rifle Association (NRA) conundrum: lionising American outlaws while ...