NRA's Pro-Gun Rights Message Spreads Despite Legal, Money Troubles

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

June 8, 2021

Liberals have cheered the highly public legal and financial jeopardy ensnaring the National Rifle Association, seeing the gun lobby’s potential demise as the path to stricter firearms laws.

But, it turns out, the NRA’s message appears to have become so solidified in the Republican Party that even if the organization implodes from allegations of lavish spending and misuse of funds, its pro-gun point of view will live on, as the heated debate increasingly shifts from Washington to the states.

Not even the shift in power to Democrats in the White House and Congress has been enough to push through new federal restrictions, and states continue to pass laws with far-reaching protections for gun owners.

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