‘The conspiracy theory convention’: what happened at the NRA’s annual meeting?

Gun lobby members claim Texas school shooting was orchestrated to overshadow event

Protester holding 'Be pro life, abort NRA' sign
Protesters rally outside the NRA convention in Houston
(Image credit: Katie McTiernan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Several attendees at the National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in Texas have claimed that the mass school shooting in the state last week was deliberately orchestrated to overshadow the annual gathering of the gun lobby group.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.