Mike McIntire
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Mike McIntire’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He did, and it was very painful for him to do so.
It was, you know, the proponents of that ban cleverly kind of wrapped it in a much larger crime bill that provided tens of millions of dollars for policing, expanded prisons, did a lot of things that would have been hard for somebody who wanted to be seen as cracking down on crime to oppose.
And he was pretty upfront about that.
I mean, he was stuck between a rock and a hard place, really.
He did not want to vote for the assault weapons ban.
But he was heavily lobbied by President Clinton at the time.
And he eventually did come around to holding his nose and voting for that bill, although he immediately regretted it afterwards.
He got death threats.
He immediately became a villain among some of the very same people who had viewed him as a hero for so long.
And he did consider the idea of trying to join an effort to repeal the ban, get it reversed, which, of course, never came to pass.
The NRA in the 1970s still kind of reflected...
the old guard of the organization's view that it was focused mostly on hunting, sports shooting, conservation for much of its existence.
And he was trying to turn into something else.
He was trying to turn into basically a modern gun rights juggernaut.
It wasn't even a registered lobbying group up until the 1970s.
And so his vision was to create what eventually became known as the Institute of Legislative Action.
It's a lobbying organization that
that the NRA created that he was really the primary author of.
This was his idea.
And this became, you can almost consider it to be sort of the death star of lobbying in Washington, D.C.
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