The NRA declared bankruptcy; its longtime chief executive, Wayne LaPierre, has been disgraced, setting the gun-rights group back on its heels.
Yet the NRA is still a powerful enough force in Washington politics to derail President Bidens effort to install a Senate-confirmed leader of the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives), once again reminding gun control advocates of how steep the climb is to achieve reasonable regulation of firearms.
While its mired in myriad Washington scandals, the NRA still has a devoted following in communities across America that arent bothered by mainstream media coverage of LaPierre living the high life on the NRAs dime, or his botched shooting of an elephant in Botswana. They see that as…
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