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...many of the NRA members argee with him is hard to determine, but the number is probably not insignificant. The NRA offers numerous services far removed from its battle against gun laws: technical articles, identification of antique firearms, and the "Hunter Safety" training, which even bitter NRA opponents admit has helped reduce the number of hunting accidents...
...another NRA--represented by the small number of executives who choose their successors by disguised co-option--always hits the front pages. Most of the men at the top aren't "merchants of death" fronting for gun companies, but rather men who feel that the government threatens their most prized possession...
Some 20,000 of the NRA's 960,000 members attended the convention. They listened to speeches opposing proposed gun legislation, saw demonstrations of the U.S. Army's small arms exhibit--"the finest in modern and antique firearms and the men most knowledgeable about them," according to NRA publicity...
...Communists jumped on the anti-gun bandwagon. Contrary to your implication that The American Rifleman accepts ads for "submachine guns, silencers, antitank guns, cannon and Nazi insignia," it steadfastly rejects all such advertising. Submachine guns and silencers, by the way, are illegal under U.S. gun laws that the NRA helped to pass...
Herbert Gold's "novel in the form of a memoir" is nostalgic enough to revive the lost magic of the 1930s for all who grew up with "Ovaltine Birthstone & Good Luck Rings . . . Joe Louis . . . black Fords with NRA stickers . . . tops from Ralston boxes to send away as a mark of esteem for Tom Mix." Novelist Gold (Therefore Be Bold) writes with fine irony, a strong sense of the absurd, and at times with the cynical insight accumulated by a perceptive man in 43 years of watching the shell game...