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