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How the NRA evolved from backing a 1934 ban on machine guns to blocking nearly all firearm restrictions today

  • Written by Robert Spitzer, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the Political Science Department, State University of New York College at Cortland
imageNRA conventiongoers, like these at the gun group's 2018 big meeting, browse firearms exhibits.Loren Elliott/AFP via Getty Images

The mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, just 10 days apart, are stirring the now-familiar national debate over guns seen after the tragic 2012 and 2018 school...

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