Gun Control Reform Activism

multigraincracker

(38,034 posts) Sun Aug 6, 2023, 09:28 AM Aug 2023

A little history of the NRA.

It was created in 1871 by Union generals to teach Northern youth to be better shots to kill Confederate soldiers.
Now in business to support big business gun makers, Republican Party and Putin.

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A little history of the NRA. (Original Post) multigraincracker Aug 2023 OP

The changeover happened in the '70s when the gun industry performed AndyS Aug 2023 #1

AndyS

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1. The changeover happened in the '70s when the gun industry performed

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Sun Aug 6, 2023, 11:42 AM

Aug 2023

what has been widely called a coup. They orchestrated a vote that ousted the old school board of directors and installed officers picked by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (the NSSF, remember them as they are the replacement for the NRA). What had been an organization that promoted safety, sports, marksmanship and GUN CONTROL became a marketing division of the gun industry. They went from safety to fear mongering, from hunting rifles to 'self defense' handguns.

Today red flag laws are really confiscation laws, safe storage is defense denial and there is zero tolerance for ANY legislation that effects guns and the unregulated accessibility to them.

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