Friendly Fire: The Unexpected Family History of the NRA’s Spokesperson

Megan Smolenyak
Sep 4, 2018 · 6 min read

As spokeswoman for the NRA, Dana (Eaton) Loesch has become a master of its special brand of upside down logic. Eschewing degrees of subtlety, she goes directly for the 180. In her world, Trump and the NRA are victims, journalists are a threat, and we’d all be safer if we did away with those pesky gun free zones. And just for good measure, gun control activists are “tragedy dry-humping whores.”

For someone who seems laser-focused on maximizing guns per capita in the U.S. with a secondary interest in mocking…

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Megan Smolenyak

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Genealogical adventurer & storyteller who loves solving mysteries! 6 books, 20+ TV shows, former Ancestry.com Chief Family Historian, cold case sleuth for many.

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