{"id":372218,"date":"2018-08-05T16:25:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T15:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-protesters-rally-against-nra-over-us-gun-violence\/"},"modified":"2018-08-05T16:25:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T15:25:47","slug":"presstv-protesters-rally-against-nra-over-us-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-protesters-rally-against-nra-over-us-gun-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Protesters rally against NRA over US gun violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Hundreds of protesters have rallied outside the headquarters of the National Rifle Association (NRA),\u00a0calling for stricter gun-control measures and a change to the powerful gun lobby\u2019s tax-exempt status.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The protesters met Saturday for the &#8220;National March on NRA&#8221; in Fairfax, Virginia, carrying signs and chanting slogans against the NRA and gun violence across the US.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators shut down a portion of road leading the organization\u2019s headquarters, where they encountered counter-protesters supporting gun ownership.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, hey, ho ho, the NRA has got to go,&#8221; the crowds chanted while NRA supporters, some armed with weapons,\u00a0waved\u00a0 banners of US President Donald Trump and held up signs, including one reading &#8220;Tyranny: When you disarm me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police officers, along with white and orange barriers, separated the protesters from NRA supporters.<\/p>\n<p>The protest is just the latest to target the organization and demand stricter gun control laws&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/05\/570291\/US-NRA-protest-gun-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of protesters have rallied outside the headquarters of the National Rifle Association (NRA),\u00a0calling for stricter gun-control measures and a change to the powerful gun lobby\u2019s tax-exempt status.\u00a0 The protesters met Saturday for the &#8220;National March on NRA&#8221; in Fairfax, Virginia, carrying signs and chanting slogans against the NRA and gun violence across the US. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}