Guns And Rhetoric
March, 1982
The Gun LobbyWhen firearms foes managed to label the National Rifle Association the "Washington gun lobby," they scored a major propaganda victory at the expense of accuracy. Most people think of a lobby as a sinister bunch of slick power brokers who covertly influence public legislation in behalf of private interests. The N.R.A. can certainly derail a proposed gun law but it does so mainly by alerting its millions of members and supporters to what's going on. In fact, the N.R.A. is on...
