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zipplewrath

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3. The origins of the NRA

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 14, 2018, 12:31 PM

Nov 2018

Believe it or not, if you go back to the formation of the NRA, it was inspired by the attempt in the south to deny the right to own weapons to African-Americans. Some people realized that if they could deny it to them, they could end up denying it to anyone.

They've drifted way away from their original roots.

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