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With a Friend in the White House, the NRA Scrambles to Find Other Targets
Lacking Obama as a foil, the influential gun lobby stays busy pushing pro-gun legislation and attacking mainstream media.
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Without a bogeyman in the White House to inveigh against, how does the gun lobby keep busy? That’s an urgent question for the National Rifle Association.
The NRA and its allies in the gun industry thrive on battling enemies, real and imagined. The Obama years saw rising firearm sales responding to NRA-stoked fears that the former president would clamp down on gun purchases. That Obama didn’t sign a single significant gun control measure mattered not one bit; his eight years in office were good times for the NRA and gun makers.