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The NRA, in that context, is a thoroughly political organization. It uses the most sophisticated methods to put its power, its wealth, its influential members, and its general constituency to the most effective utilization in pressuring Congress. The general view of the NRA is that any law which in any way hinders the right of any citizen to bear any sort of handgun or larger firearm is a bad law. The siege mentality of the NRA has in recent years somewhat weakened its power in Congress, for the non-NRA public has pressured Congress as well to enact laws which limit, for example, the use and ownership of automatic weapons/ and that public has reacted with outrage when the congress caves into NRA pressure in such extreme cases. The NRA, however, clings to the view that once any chip is made in the wall of the Second Amendment, the entire wall will eventually be chipped away.
As we read in Landau, "Feeling that the right to keep and bear arms might be threatened by proposed gun control legislation, the NRA has shifted a good deal of its atte
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