National Rifle Association 
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SOURCE: Boston Review
12/17/2021
America as a Tactical Gun Culture
by Chad Kautzer
"Vigilantism is fueled by an individualist notion of sovereignty more dangerous than any military-grade weaponry. It rejects the freedom of others as equal to one’s own and views any attempt to support such equality as tyranny."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
11/16/2021
How Much is the NRA to Blame for the Gun Culture?
Two new books help to shed light on how the NRA, partisan politicians, and the gun industry "took a political base of hunters and nurtured a new, expanded audience of gun guys," and how they made Americans live in their world.
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SOURCE: NPR
11/9/2021
Secret NRA Tapes in Wake of Columbine Show Decision to Attack Critics for "Politicizing" Mass Shootings
The NRA faced a crossroads after the Columbine shootings in 1999. They chose a scorched-earth posture that has guided their response to every mass shooting incident since, documented in recordings of high-level strategy meetings.
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SOURCE: CNN
8/28/2021
How Racism Permeates the Politics of Guns
Historians Carol Anderson and Yohuru Williams are featured in a new documentary examining the ways that American gun rights discourse has been filtered through racism.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
5/7/2021
How the Modern NRA Was Born at the Border
by Sierra Pettengill and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Sierra Pettengill's new short documentary "The Rifleman" connects racist violence at the US-Mexico border and the politics of influential NRA leader Harlon Carter, who for decades concealed the fact that he was convicted at age 17 of murder for shooting a Mexican youth in Laredo. She discusses that story with historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
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SOURCE: Heather Cox Richardson
3/23/2021
Letters From an American: March 23, 2021
by Heather Cox Richardson
Beginning in the 1970s, the National Rifle Assocaition evolved into a political lobbying organization increasingly enmeshed with the conservative movement. Two recent mass shootings are a tribute to the organization's success. Congratulations.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1/11/2021
The Gun-Rights Movement Fed America’s Insurrectionist Fever Dreams
by Firmin DeBrabander
"The gun-rights movement cleared the path for insurrection. It blew a hole in the rule of law—and Donald Trump’s would-be soldiers clamored through it. And then scaled the walls of Congress."
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/3/2020
In Act of Heresy, N.R.A.’s Former No. 2 Calls for Gun Control
“The N.R.A. fueled a toxic debate,” Mr. Powell writes, “by appealing to the paranoia and darkest side of our members, in a way that has torn at the very fabric of America.”
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/9/19
The Black Gun Owner Next Door
by Tiya Miles
I’m an African-American historian and, on most issues, decidedly liberal. Could I rethink my anti-gun stance?
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