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The NRA's Hemispheric Reach
BY WENDY CUKIER
FROM ISSUE: LATIN AMERICA GOES GLOBAL, SPRING 2013
How the NRA promotes gun rights across the hemisphere.

http://www.americasquarterly.org/content/nras-hemispheric-reach


With gun violence once again at the top of the U.S. political agenda, the rest of the world waits anxiously for signs that Washington can move beyond the polarizing national debate over gun control and develop even modest improvements to firearms legislation. The issue is particularly sensitive in the Americas, where the trafficking of American guns, both legal and illegal, represents a threat to public safety.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) will be at the center of this debate. Though widely considered one of the most powerful lobby groups in the U.S., the NRA’s impact on firearms policies extends far beyond U.S. borders.

Not only has the NRA blocked or reversed efforts to strengthen gun laws in the U.S., it has also worked to oppose international efforts to combat the illicit trade in firearms at forums such as the United Nations, arguing that these measures would trample U.S. rights. It has also engaged in policy advocacy in other countries, working against efforts to strengthen domestic firearms laws through a variety of means, believing that working internationally can help prevent global trends that could influence the U.S. debate. Although the NRA charter forbids it from spending money abroad, the organization works around this to provide resources and exert influence in many ways, including working with local gun lobby groups to develop their capacity to fight gun control legislation.

I still think you're a pompous elitist, but this comment of yours is certainly indicative of the snide disregard for the riff raff's point of view which you share with too many liberals and that led to Trump be elected.

Bush Jr was a pretty boy, along with Dan Quayle and Sarah Palin. Pure airheads.

Because I didn't elect the NRA to ****, and they have no authority in my country.

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Bush Jr was a pretty boy

Kalashnikov USA isn’t the only gun company that Scott has rolled out the red carpet for. The number of gun manufacturers in the state has ballooned from 232 when Scott took office in 2011 to 764 today, according to statistics from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms — a slightly higher rate than the one at which it has increased nationwide. In 2011, Scott personally announced that he had promised gunmaker Colt a tax break deal of its own, this one worth $1.6m, to relocate 63 jobs to Kissimmee, Fla. And in 2015, Scott’s office touted job growth at another Florida company, Azimuth Technologies, which makes parts for AR-15s, as evidence that Florida’s elimination of taxes on manufacturing equipment had brought work to the state.

NRATV host Grant Stinchfield highlighted former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack, who now teaches high school and ran unsuccessfully for Congress, as a teacher who supports having educators carrying guns in schools in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, FL. Mack has recently compared Parkland survivors’ calls for gun control to the commentary of Hitler, Lenin, and Stalin, and he has long-standing ties to a far-right faction of the pro-gun movement.

Asked about the student-led protests following the Parkland shooting during an interview with the Southern Poverty Law Center, Mack said the students, politicians, and media were using “the exact same kind of language” as “some of the rhetoric from Hitler and Stalin and Lenin,” who he said claimed “that gun control will make you safer.” SPLC reported that Mack does “like the idea of teachers being armed” after the Parkland shooting, though he said it’s not the “only answer.” (There’s no evidence that arming school teachers would prevent school shootings.)

One of the strangest moments came when [Trump] argued that the alleged shooter in the tragedy in Parkland, Fla. — about whom there were numerous red flags — should have had his guns taken away, regardless of what the law allowed.

“I think they should have taken them away, whether they had the right or not,” Trump said. He added later, in case there was any doubt: “Take the guns first, go through due process second.”

When Toomey said it did not, Trump shot back: “You know why? Because you're afraid of the NRA.”

..Trump would later go on to say some of the members in the meeting were “petrified” of the NRA.

“They have great power over you people,” Trump said. .