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In reply to the discussion: What are you going to do this week to support expanded background checks? [View all]BainsBane
(53,012 posts)The NRA represents gun manufacturers. They make billions selling guns, and a not insignificant number go to felons and illegal arms traffickers (to Mexico, for example). They want to keep making as much money as possible, so everything the NRA does is to ensure unfettered profits. It's like the lobby for any big industry, whether Big Pharma or Big Agra. They are all the same. The difference is the gun lobby has a bunch of followers who have bought into their propaganda.
The registration hysteria is all a smokescreen to frighten gun owners into supporting the NRA's agenda that is ultimately about profits for the gun industry.
As for the GOP, they want political power. The NRA funnels them a lot of money. Again, it's like anything else. Only gun profiteering has morphed into a religious-like quality for Second Amendment supporters who see any and everything about guns as a restriction on their constitutional rights. Essentially they've been frightened into supporting a corporate agenda.
It's all about illegal sales. That is the ONLY logical explanation. Even LaPierre admitted it himself when testifying before congress in opposition to background checks: criminals won't submit to background checks. That is exactly what they fear. They don't want to lose the money from sales to criminals who would find it more difficult to obtain weapons.