Mike McIntire
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first heard Jul 2026
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by the time you get to the 90s.
Very powerful.
And, you know, as I said, I mean, he came up with a plan to create this sort of unit that would function under the auspices of the NRA.
And the idea was to use all the levers of power, both at the state level and the federal level, to influence legislation, impede and harass gun control groups with lawsuits and other means.
and very importantly, subsidize and sponsor scholarship, legal research, and court cases that were designed to kind of reframe this idea of the Second Amendment into something that would be an individual right, as opposed to just simply militia-centric.
And this didn't exist before he came on board.
This was not something the NRA had contemplated, and there was a lot of objections to it with the leadership at the time.
But by the time you get to the end of the 1970s,
That leadership is gone.
They were been ousted basically by by the membership that was getting increasingly kind of radicalized and really viewed Dingell as sort of a, you know, the de facto leader, even though he was just simply a member of the board.
But he had really by that time solidified himself as as sort of the champion of this new, more aggressive approach.
He's a fascinating character in this whole story of the evolution of the NRA.
He had previously been a head of border patrol in the United States.
His father had been a border agent.
And in the 1950s, while he was head of the border patrol, he actually was engaged in similar sort of immigration crackdowns that you see today.
There's not a lot of difference between them.
But then he also joined the NRA, Harlan Carter did.
He was president of the NRA for a while.
And by the time you get to the 70s and Dingell is trying to find somebody to head up this new lobbying organization, he thought Carter was just the guy.
Because they shared a very aggressive...
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