The NRA is no longer the NRA...

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They are the GSL.
Gun Sales Lobby.

NRA Attacks Virginia Tech Shooting Survivors Who Advocate For Stronger Gun Laws

An article in the National Rifle Association's (NRA) "official journal" attacked survivors of the 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech for using the tragedy to advocate for stronger gun laws.

On April 16, 2007, a gunman at Virginia Tech opened fire in a dormitory and several classrooms, fatally shooting 32 people and wounding 17 others. Following the shooting, several survivors and victims' family members began to advocate for gun violence prevention laws, especially for a federal law to close a loophole in the national background check system that allowed the gunman to acquire his weapons.

In a June 4 feature, NRA magazine America's 1st Freedom attacked those advocates and ran an interview with Holly Adams, who lost her daughter in the shooting and doesn't believe that additional regulation of firearms will prevent future tragedies.

America's 1st Freedom writer David Burnett posited that some victims of the shooting were "coached by gun control lobbyists" and had politicized their experiences with the tragedy by using "their victimhood to advocate for gun bans throughout the nation":

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/06/05/nra-attacks-virginia-tech-shooting-survivors-wh/203888

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1. Interestingly, the NRA worked with Democrats to improve mental health reporting so that..

...someone like the VATech shooter wouldn't be able to buy new guns.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nra-democrats-team-up-to-pass-gun-bill/

After 52 years in Congress, John Dingell knows it sometimes takes a "rather curious alliance," such as between the National Rifle Association and the House's most fervent gun control advocate, to move legislation.

That's what took place Wednesday when the House, by voice vote, passed a gun control bill that Rep. Dingell, D-Mich., helped broker between the NRA and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y.

With the NRA on board, the bill, which fixes flaws in the national gun background check system that allowed the Virginia Tech shooter to buy guns despite his mental health problems, has a good chance of becoming the first major gun control law in more than a decade.

"We'll work with anyone, if you protect the rights of law-abiding people under the second amendment and you target people that shouldn't have guns," NRA chief Wayne LaPierre told CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Atkisson

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2. The NRA leadership -- Grover Norquist, John Bolton, Ted Nugent, Ollie North, Larry Craig,

every POS who has made millions off selling guns to racist yahoos, and worse. What do we expect? It's pretty much representative of 90% of the gun culture. The other 10% are glad the NRA is protecting their "right" to strap a gun on to go to town, pack gun safes with lethal weapons, raise their kids in the gun culture, etc.