Toomey and Democratic Sen. President Donald Trump has phoned Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia wrote bipartisan legislation on the subject and Trump appears to consider it the main bill Congress should build on. Pat Toomey to express support for his proposal on background checks for gun purchases.
Seattle-based REI has been facing mounting pressure from some customers. And late Thursday outdoor retailer REI says it's halting future orders of some popular brands - including CamelBak water carriers, Giro helmets and Camp Chef stoves - whose parent company also makes ammunition and assault-style rifles.
The explosion in popularity of daily fantasy sports over the last decade has created a generation of sports fans more attuned to gauging individual player statistics than how two teams may fare against each other, the challenge at the heart of traditional sports wagering. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File) 24 2015, file photo, North Carolina State guard Anthony Barber dribbles the ball across the FanDuel logo during an NCAA college basketball game in the Legends Classic in New York.
Toomey is telling "Fox and Friends" that he stood up to the NRA after sponsoring a similar bill in 2012. He says he remains skeptical about raising the minimum age to 21 because most young people who buy guns are hunters and target shooters who "are not a threat to anyone.
The Atlanta-based airline would have been the chief beneficiary of the tax break. Georgia lawmakers passed a bill Thursday that effectively punishes Delta for cutting ties with the NRA, following through on Republican vows to deny a tax break worth an estimated $38 million to airlines after Delta ended discounts for NRA members in the wake of the most recent school massacre.
That will depend heavily on how the Supreme Court decides New Jersey's case, expected this spring. Even more important, experts say, is whether states will be able to offer QQ Poker Online sports wagering to a demographic raised on smartphones and laptops.
The group's executive director, Chris Cox, is also tweeting about the meeting, saying Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and the NRA "want safe schools, mental health reform and to keep guns away from dangerous people.
A survey commissioned by the Fantasy Sports Trade Association in 2016 estimated more than 57 million people participated in some form of fantasy sports, in which competitors pick rosters of players and win or lose based on how those players perform.
