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Right to Bear Arms? Not at CPAC 2016

COLD DEAD HANDS

At the annual Republican confab, there were a lot of ‘good guys’ without guns.

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NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — On Thursday afternoon, the head of the National Rifle Association gave a fiery speech to a room filled with the country’s most dedicated conservative activists.

Just one thing: Nobody was packing heat.

That’s because the nation’s top conservative conference is now an official gun-free zone.

Security here is conspicuously...

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