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NRA Bans Guns During Convention Speech By President, Vice President

The organization said it's the Secret Service calling the shots. Still, it's under fire by critics demanding the same level of security, and members who argue it undermines the NRA's basic tenets.

Victims of the Florida high school shooting and their parents are criticizing the National Rifle Association after it announced gun advocates won't be allowed to bring weapons to watch Vice President Mike Pence deliver the NRA-ILA's leadership forum keynote address in Dallas on Friday.

"Wait wait wait wait wait wait you're telling me to make the VP safe there aren't any weapons around but when it comes to children they want guns everywhere?," Matt Deitsch, aon Twitter.

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