The inquiry, sent from NRA official Mark Richardson’s work email, was evidence of the curious handshake in which the gun-rights organization has found itself with the most extreme purveyors of Internet falsehoods.
Wolfgang Halbig, left, has made numerous trips to Newtown, Conn., to question the official version of the school shooting that took place there in 2012. By Isaac Stanley-Becker Isaac Stanley-Becker Reporter based in the U.K. Email Bio Follow March 28 at 6:38 AM In the week after a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., killing 17 students and staff members and renewing calls for gun control, the National Rifle Association fell silent.
He pushed the deluded idea that the gunman, a former student at the school, had not acted alone, posing a series of questions about how he had gained entry and where he had kept his equipment. The deaths returned the nation’s focus to the two communities, which have been besieged by online abuse and threats stoked by conspiracy theories that depict the victims as “crisis actors."
The revelation came as the NRA was already facing criticism on Wednesday for saying it would oppose the Violence Against Women Act because of a provision designed to keep guns away from men who batter women. The legislation, first approved in 1994, is up for reauthorization in Congress. “I am tired of going to funerals where parents are burying their children,” he said. “We are going to bring a fight like the NRA has never seen.”
Citing his credentials in law enforcement and school security, Halbig has asserted unique insight into what happened in Newtown.
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