It isn't just the gun nuts that are dupes. There are a lot of reasonable gun owners who think it's a good thing for the NRA to push wacky ideas they don't agree with. By staking out crazy, extremist positions, gun owners think the debate get's re-centered in a safer place for them.
But that's worked a little too well, when you have the ATF rendered impotent, and science research into guns censored. And proposals with 91% public support, like universal background checks, treated like questionable notions that lawmakers aren't even willing to debate, let alone enact.
If ever a radical special interest held Washington hostage, it's the NRA.
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