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In reply to the discussion: Oh noes, the NRA is not happy! [View all]farminator3000
(2,117 posts)In the fall of 2009, Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, convened a gun conference that brought police chiefs and law enforcement officials to Washington from around the country. Wexler also reached out to the NRA. The NRA representative remained largely silent, and at the end of the day Wexler sensed that the NRA had showed up merely to say no.
They were not willing to accept what police chiefs who deal with shooting and firearms every day were saying, Wexler says. It was like, we dont really care what youre saying because this is what we think. The NRA has a preconceived idea about what should be done. And that is nothing.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-nras-true-believers-converted-a-marksmanship-group-into-a-mighty-gun-lobby/2013/01/12/51c62288-59b9-11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story_4.html