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I'm no fan of the NRA (due to them being a domestic industry lobbying group dressed up as a rights group), but if this is in reference to recent news, they've actually pushed back against Trump on the issue of public carry.
I was super surprised to actually see them speak up, here... they've been (not so) strangely silent about everything else anti-gun that Trump has said.
Again, not an NRA fan here. They are a domestic industry lobby group, so things like the bumpstock ban or even red flag laws are small potatoes to the domestic gun industry overall. The NRA tends to really push when it is the sort of law or statement that will affect something big in relation to domestic industry. Concealed carry focused products (subcompact handguns, compact handguns, and accessories) is an entire branch of the industry that many major gun companies participate in, so from an industry lobby perspective they are motivated to protect it. It also helps them from a PR perspective that they are on the same side as somebody who got shot, rather than trying to march uphill in the discussion after a shooting using whatever gun or accessory is in the discussion's crosshairs.
I thought they just existed to illegally funnel Russian funds to the GOP.
Sure the NRA are also a bunch of corrupt, self-centered boomers. Looks less like funneling money and more like peddling connections, which isn't any better.
My point above by calling them an industry lobbying group is that they present themselves as a rights group, but when it comes to firearms related causes they have a history of speaking up loudly when it will affect the domestic gun industry and saying very little when it is a firearms issue that won't negatively affect domestic gun companies finances.
I got the sense the NRA reacted more to other gun rights advocates calling out the NRA’s silence, than the NRA immediately reacting to the administration’s comments on exercising 2A rights.
The NRA pushed back on Trump on the same day (Jan 27) that he made his anti-carry comments.
Somehow Gavin Newsom ended up cheering on the NRA, so that's the timeline we're in.
So you're saying they responded to multiple parties with multiple responses and one party with one statement?