In the years following, the NRA pushed hard against President Barack Obama’s ultimately failed plan to pass meaningful gun legislation. Framing Obama as an existential threat to gun rights worked for the NRA. But with Trump elected, there wasn’t the same manufactured fear for the NRA to exploit. And Trump has not been an especially intelligent ally for the organization, at times openlydefying the once-unstoppable lobbying group. A Sandy Hook Conspiracist Hidden In The RanksAfter the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead, an NRA official emailed a prominent Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist to call the shooting into question, a HuffPost investigation found.

Source: Huffington Post April 30, 2019 19:18 UTC