The US National Rifle Association on Friday May 20,2016 announced its endorsement of
Donald Trump for president, saying it was time to unite behind the
Republican or "kiss your guns goodbye" if Hillary Clinton is elected.
"We have to unite and we have to unite right now," Chris Cox, head of the NRA's lobbying arm, said at the gun rights group's annual convention in Louisville, Kentucky.
"So on behalf of the thousands of patriots in this room, the five million NRA members across this country, and the tens of millions who support us, I'm officially announcing the NRA's endorsement of Donald Trump for president."
The NRA's endorsement of a Republican nominee is no surprise.
But the timing is notable because it came months earlier than in the previous two elections, suggesting the nation's largest gun-rights advocacy group was seeking to help the Republican Party unite conservatives fractured over Trump.
The group's chief executive Wayne LaPierre declared it was time to prevent Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, from gaining the White House and appointing a new justice to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
"If she gets just one Supreme Court nomination, Hillary's court will hold that the (US Constitution's) Second Amendment is the government right, not an individual right, and you can kiss your guns goodbye," LaPierre said.
"We have to unite and we have to unite right now," Chris Cox, head of the NRA's lobbying arm, said at the gun rights group's annual convention in Louisville, Kentucky.
"So on behalf of the thousands of patriots in this room, the five million NRA members across this country, and the tens of millions who support us, I'm officially announcing the NRA's endorsement of Donald Trump for president."
The NRA's endorsement of a Republican nominee is no surprise.
But the timing is notable because it came months earlier than in the previous two elections, suggesting the nation's largest gun-rights advocacy group was seeking to help the Republican Party unite conservatives fractured over Trump.
The group's chief executive Wayne LaPierre declared it was time to prevent Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, from gaining the White House and appointing a new justice to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
"If she gets just one Supreme Court nomination, Hillary's court will hold that the (US Constitution's) Second Amendment is the government right, not an individual right, and you can kiss your guns goodbye," LaPierre said.
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