The third group was the American Family Business Institute, which is dedicated to abolishing the inheritance tax.ĭick Patten, the head of the American Family Business Institute, spoke first. Constitution, if such orders are given (from the organization’s declaration: “We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps”). Oath Keepers is a new organization, chartered in Las Vegas, made up of current and former police, military, and firefighters who have promised not to carry out orders that violate the U.S. Among its causes is making sure that military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder are not denied access to guns. too soft in its defense of the Second Amendment. Gun Owners of America broke off from the National Rifle Association in the nineteen-seventies many of its members considered the N.R.A. Three groups were given time at the podium. agent, had an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle on display.

Several of the folding tables set up around the perimeter of the room had a martial air at one, the Republican nominee for Congress in Nevada’s First District, Kenneth Wegner, a retired career Army man who looks like central casting’s idea of a nineteen-fifties F.B.I. The meeting was in a function room somewhere within the vastness of the Orleans Hotel and Casino, a coach-class establishment a couple of miles from the Strip.

One evening in Las Vegas, I dropped in on a bimonthly meeting of the Clark County Republican Party at which Sharron Angle, the Republican nominee for the United States Senate, was scheduled as the last speaker on a long program. “Nobody pushes him around.” Photograph by Jeff Riedel / Contour by Getty Images Reid “is truly hard as a diamond, and tough,” an associate says.

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