"Dismayed by the lack of marksmanship shown by their troops, Union veterans Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate formed the National Rifle Association in 1871. The primary goal of the association would be to "promote and encourage rifle shooting on a scientific basis, . . .
While widely recognized today as a major political force and as America's foremost defender of Second Amendment rights, the NRA has, since its inception, been the premier firearms education organization in the world."
Hardly radical.
They get ZERO defense budget dollars from the US Government.
It's not just liberals, but conservatives too; authoritarians want to take our guns away, and the vast, VAST majority of authoritarians claim liberal politics.
It appears tha all the NRA wants is that the peoples right o keep and bear arms not be infringed, and that those people keeping and bearing arms do so in a safe and effective manner.
What's your problem with that?
Except those demonstrably incompetent, or criminally violent.
Unless you don want to, of course.
You mean no confiscation lists.
You mean no confiscation lists, and no permission to excersize constitutionally protected rights.
You are so full of shit.
Why wouldn't a group of assholes, bent on confiscating the guns of law-abiding folk, demand that all the guns legally purchased by these same folks be included, with the names of their owners, in a conveniently referenced database?
The right of the People to keep and bear arms
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!!!!