After 136 Mass Shootings This Year, NRA Supports One Single Bare Minimum Safety Standard for Gun Buying [Updated]
PoliticsAnd here’s the National Rifle Association, stumbling in late and loud:
The NRA previously insisted that gun-buying procedures work just fine as they are:
“The NRA does not want terrorists or dangerous people to have firearms, any suggestion otherwise is offensive and wrong,” said Jennifer Baker, director of public affairs. “Under the current system, law enforcement is notified every time a person on the list attempts to purchase a firearm. Law Enforcement then makes a case by case decision on the appropriate follow-up for each circumstance.
“The NRA’s only objective is to ensure that Americans who are wrongly on the list are afforded their constitutional right to due process. It is appalling that anti-gun politicians are exploiting the Paris terrorist attacks to push their gun-control agenda and distract from President Obama’s failed foreign policy.”
But today, after 136 mass shootings in the first 164 days of the year, after Orlando, the deadliest mass shooting in American history, and after reportedly meeting with candidate-shaped suckhole Donald Trump this morning, the NRA has (slightly) changed their tune.