NRA acted as a foreign agent before 2016 election

[EleanorR]

And they gave trump 30 million dollars, more than any other group.

The Trump campaign represented the lion's share of the group's spending—the NRA spent $54 million on the 2016 elections in total.

https://fortune.com/2019/08/21/how-much-did-nra-contribute-trump-campaign/

Wyden and other Democrats on the Senate finance committee found that a delegation of NRA officials traveled to Moscow in December 2015.

The trip was coordinated with Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin, who are both Russian. Butina is currently serving an 18-month prison sentence after she tried to infiltrate US conservative groups and the NRA to promote Russian political interests around the 2016 election.

While in Russia the NRA met with “a host of senior level Kremlin officials”, Wyden said. Those officials included Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the deputy prime minister, Dmitry Rogozin, who oversaw defense and munitions industries.

After the trip to Russia, the NRA allowed Butina to bring a delegation from Russia to its influential annual meeting. Wyden said the NRA also “provided access” to other conservative political organizations, including the National Prayer Breakfast and the Council for National Policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/27/nra-russia-foreign-asset-senate-report-investigation

[Walleye]

1. Because Putin is so in favor of individual gun rights for his citizens?

I think not

[EleanorR]

2. He would very much like to see all the wackjobs in the US armed to the teeth

Chaos, division, mass shootings, anything that weakens the US benefits putin.

[Walleye]

4. Well we know that but apparently the right wing hasn't a clue on that situation

[empedocles]

3. NRA has long seemed legally vulnerable. Processes may be moving against NRA.

Bankruptcy may not protect them.

[EleanorR]

5. That is my hope

It was encouraging they weren't allowed to simply move to Texas to escape legal culpability.

[lagomorph777]

6. This needs to proceed to criminal prosecutions.

[mitch96]

8. "Bankruptcy may not protect them." Sue their ass into oblivion and give the money to the victim's

of gun violence. Hopefully the NRA money will not go to "the other guy".. It probably won't happen but I can dream can't I?
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[EleanorR]

10. the gun industry is unfortunately uniquely protected from lawsuits

With nearly every American industry and product, civil liability can be used as an important check on irresponsible manufacturers and sellers—but not the gun industry. When Congress passed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act in 2005, our leaders made the gun industry immune from nearly all lawsuits, leaving families of gun violence victims without an avenue to seek justice.

https://giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-laws/policy-areas/other-laws-policies/gun-industry-immunity/

[SYFROYH]

11. I don't think the PLCAA would have any relevance to this issue of aiding a foreign country.

[stillcool]

7. Ah,...memories of the 4th of July

Predictably, the Russians are gloating over the fact that GOP lawmakers met with their Russian counterparts in a secret room.
@SenJohnKennedy (LA)
@SenShelby (AL)
@SteveDaines (MT)
@SenJohnHoeven (ND)
@SenJohnThune (SD)
@JerryMoran (KS)
@RepKayGranger (TX)
@SenRonJohnson (WI)

Red Paul: The Senator from Kentucky is Now Working for Vladimir Putin
Greg Olear
https://medium.com/@gregolear/red-paul-the-senator-from-kentucky-is-now-working-for-vladimir-putin-5ecad382f623
Jan 1, 2019

The dissemination of Putinist propaganda is bad enough. But let us not forget that Rand Paul has served as a Trump/Russia intermediary, on one occasion flying to Moscow to deliver a handwritten letter from the president to Putin

[triron]

9. All NOT supporting American democracy.

[stillcool]

12. yeah...they've got their own brand...

of, by, and for white, male, landowners only.