OK whats a decade or 2 among friends?There was a time in the 80's and 90's when the NRA did some good ,,showed youngsters how to handle a weapon how to shoot how to take care ,,,, BUT now they're just an arm of the Republican party
I wouldn't go that far. The NRA was a sensible organization up until the 1970's... when it supported common sense gun laws.
Then the nuts like LaPeirre took over.
This was also about the time that hunting started falling out of fashion as a sport, so the gun industry realized that the home protection market was the way to go.