Opinion: The NRA is going global. Here’s why.
Anti-NRA signs are passed out during a voter registration rally at Weston Regional Park in Weston, Fla., in March 2018. By Igor Volsky March 28 at 1:20 PM Igor Volsky is executive director of Guns Down America. His book, “Guns Down: How to Defeat the NRA and Build a Safer Future With Fewer Guns,” will be published in April.
This was not an isolated incident. In fact, just days after a gunman killed 50 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, figures affiliated with the NRA went into overdrive arguing that New Zealand’s gun-control measures led to the massacre. Twitter accounts began tweeting the NRA’s pro-gun propaganda at New Zealand lawmakers and citizens, and the country’s pro-gun lobbyIsts began parroting NRA talking points.
The likely answer is that the lobby is motivated to find new international customers for American gun manufacturers and help foreign gun makers sell their firearms in the U.S. market. After all, it gets a cut. But the self-proclaimed “oldest civil rights organization in the country” is happy to cash in from foreign gun makers as well. Almost one-third of all U.S. gun sales are imports, and many foreign gun makers are now producing their firearms right here in the United States.
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