The NRA is in a tough spot these days. Between incompetent leadership and a mission that seems none too clear even to its members, things like this keep popping up from states that practically say "dump guns here". Don't forget that there are some in the NRA who think mandatory training of children in guns is a "good thing" -- and you thought Common Core was bad?
Yet as recently as 1999, the NRA actually supported background checks for gun purchases. For one of the most squirmy, wimp out of it performances of all time - see this.
LaPierre basically weasels his way around the fact that the improved gun check laws and purchase requirements that they once "supported" at least verbally but opposed in Congress are not effective. (If they are never enacted, how can they be ineffective?).
The NRA is looking more and more like a bunch of idiots that don't know what their message is or where they are going.
For me -- I will do what I usually do as elections approach. Look for those candidates that have received NRA donations and make sure to vote against them.
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