WHEREAS, The NRA supported the Federal Firearms Act of 1938,
which established the Federal firearms license program, and
supported most of the Gun Control Act of 1968; and
WHEREAS, Beginning in the 1970s, the NRA transitioned its
primary focus from promoting marksmanship to influencing gun
control policy by establishing its feared and powerful political
lobbying branch, the Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA)
and its persuasive political action committee, the Political
Victory Fund; and
WHEREAS, During this time, the NRA leadership was overtaken
by individuals whose ideals mirrored those of the New Christian
Right and the Moral Majority, conservative ideals invoking
rights from God and not man or government; and
WHEREAS, These beliefs are reflected in the terror-filled
narrative that the NRA uses to support its absolutist position
on the Second Amendment, that protection of the individual means
enacting violence to restore moral order as the state is unable
to do so; and
WHEREAS, The NRA can be labeled a domestic terrorist
organization by the ways in which it characterizes opponents as
monsters or evil and deploys highly publicized and potentially
damaging legislator report cards, NRA-ILA lobbyists and
Political Victory Fund donations during elections; and
WHEREAS, The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines
domestic terrorism as an offense perpetrated by individuals
and/or groups inspired by or associated with primarily United
States-based movements that espouse extremist ideologies of a
political, religious, social, racial or environmental nature;
and
WHEREAS, The FBI states that the threat of domestic terrorism
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