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Ajit Pai won’t get his gun—FCC chair rejects NRA award after ethics review

March 2, 2018

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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will not take possession of the Kentucky handmade long gun that the National Rifle Association (NRA) tried to give him when he won the group’s Charlton Heston Courage Under Fire award.

The NRA and American Conservative Union (ACU) announced the award when Pai appeared last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Pai thanked NRA board member Carolyn Meadows for the award during the ceremony and did not decline the honor at the time, but the gun that comes with the award wasn’t presented on stage.

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