The NRA is a Republican ancillary organization.

[iverglas]

25. I've debunked this noise so many times ...

Let me just say, this time:

(a) there are "Democrats" who are indistinguishable from Republicans; if the legislative agenda they support is identical to a Republican agenda, why would the NRA miss the chance to make it possible to say they support Democrats? Ever noticed how the Democrats they support are also overwhelmingly, oh, anti-choice, for instance?

(b) the NRA knows which side of its bread is buttered, and will obviously back the likely winner, all other things being equal (as they sometimes are); too obviously it is to the NRA's advantage to give money to candidates on both sides of legislatures, to have the best chance of its legislative agenda getting enacted

(c) the NRA has not backed a Democratic presidential candidate in my memory, and I would guess that if it ever did, it was before about 1968 when the modern "gun rights" movement was born out of the racist right-wing anti-desegregation movement

(d) the NRA actively campaigns against, spreads misinformation about and spends millions and millions of dollars to defeat Democratic presidential candidates and large numbers of Democratic candidates for other office, and its national campaigns operate to the detriment of Democratic candidates in general, notwithstanding local (and essentially passive) support for individual candidates; Bill Clinton didn't attribute the 1994 results to the NRA for nothing (not to "gun control", as he is constantly misquoted in the Guns forum and elsewhere as having done):

"The NRA had a great night. They beat both Speaker Tom Foley and Jack Brooks, two of the ablest members of Congress, who had warned me this would happen. Foley was the first Speaker to be defeated in more than a century. Jack Brooks had supported the NRA for years and had led the fight against the assault weapons ban in the House, but as chairman of the Judiciary Committee he had voted for the overall crime bill even after the ban was put into it. The NRA was an unforgiving master: one strike and you're out. The gun lobby claimed to have defeated nineteen of the twenty-four members on its hit list. They did at least that much damage and could rightly claim to have made Gingrich the House Speaker." -- Bill Clinton, My Life, pp 629-30

I won't presume to disagree with Bill, myself.

(For a now-extinct discussion on this subject in the Guns forum a few months ago, see here.)