Machine Guns And A Minyan At The NRA
NRA annual meeting, featuring a Jewish minyan. Image by Courtesy Jonathan Burstyn
By The Scribe May 7, 2018
The 2018 NRA Annual Meeting, held May 4 through 6, featured a full 15 acres of firearms, shooting and hunting equipment — and a minyan.
“I’m on my way back from Dallas where I took part in the NRA annual meetings — there was a nice crowd of fellow Jews,” Jonathan Burstyn of Chi-Defense, which offers the complete Illinois concealed carry course for the general public, told the Forward.
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