Five myths about the National Rifle Association: No, the NRA did not start out as a civil rights organization.
Here are five myths about the NRA’s mission and history — some told by critics, others told by the NRA itself.
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The unsung war heroes of the National Rifle Association
/in Stars and Stripes/by Frank SmythThe National Rifle Association of America has a long, exquisite history of service to the nation. Many of its leaders from past generations were war heroes. But their legacies, largely for political reasons, are barely known today.
For NRA’s new president, not his father’s gun club
/in MSNBC/by Frank SmythThe National Rifle Association’s new president is James W. Porter II from Alabama. I watched him ten years before behind the closed door of an NRA board meeting. He said, “When you open my veins, NRA blood runs out.”