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NRA: Over 1 million use firearms to protect themselves yearly

By Paul Bedard

Published September 7, 2022 6:12pm ET

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NRA: Over 1 million use firearms to protect themselves yearly — National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre speaks at the NRA Annual Meeting of Members in Indianapolis, Saturday, April 27, 2019. | (Michael Conroy/AP)

The National Rifle Association is pushing back on critics of expanded concealed carry freedoms with a new and emotional twist on its “good guy with a gun” pitch first made after the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

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