Kopel testified on January 30 , 2013 , or six weeks after the Newtown , Connecticut Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting , before the Senate Judiciary Committee on gun violence . One month later MSNBC.com revealed that Kopel and the Independence Institute had received $ 108,000 in grants from the National Rifle Association 's Civil Rights Defense Fund , and that another witness at the Senate Judiciary hearing , David T. Hardy , testifying as a private attorney in Tucson , Arizona , had received $ 67,500 in grants from the same NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund in 2011
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
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