Internal shift towards fundamentalism threatens to rip NRA apart.

[DetlefK]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/hardline-gun-owners-storm-nra-annual-meeting-demand-organization-not-bow-public-pressure/

Adam Kraut, a gun rights lawyer, fell about 4,000 votes short of the 71,000 needed for election, but earned 5,000 more than the previous year, a sign of the growth of the Second Amendment purists within the NRA known to many as “gundamentalists.”

With opinion polls showing U.S. public support for more gun control growing in the wake of mass shootings in recent years, the NRA is facing internal pressure from this little-known force that is demanding that the leadership concede zero ground to gun-control advocates.

Its rise has rattled the NRA leadership and threatens the association’s ability to hold on to moderate supporters and to make compromises that might help fend off tougher gun control measures, according to some of the two dozen gun-rights activists, policy experts and gun-control advocates interviewed for this story.

[CanonRay]

1. What compromises?

I cannot recall the NRA compromising on anything, at least in the last 20 years.

[Wounded Bear]

2. This hardly seems new...

As you point out, there hasn't been a lot of compromising for a long, long time.

But, if this tears the organization apart, I won't cry.

[Aristus]

3. 'Shift toward fundamentalism'?

Hasn't the NRA basically been the Waffen SS since the 1980's?