Mike McIntire
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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And at one point he says, you know, I want to put this in very personal terms.
And when you see him saying this, you're kind of expecting, well, gee, is he going to finally talk about this?
Is he going to find some way to kind of maybe bring it to his rhetorical advantage somehow?
And he didn't.
And in fact, he said, you know, I've never abused the right to have a gun.
I've never killed anybody with a gun.
And that wasn't true.
And so you can see that this was something that he was extremely self-conscious of and probably was aware of how it could color the interpretation of not just his but the NRA's opposition to some of these laws.
One thing that stood out to me in these documents was the effort by the NRA to really focus on cultivating children as the next generation of gun owners.
And there were some interesting papers from the early 1980s where there were basically word-for-word transcripts of meetings amongst the NRA leadership talking about the need, the really urgent need, to get more kids involved with guns.
And it was not just because they wanted to ensure the continued membership of the NRA, but they also kind of wanted to win the bigger argument of just imbuing the culture with a sense of gun ownership.
And they thought that getting kids involved in this would be a way to do that.
And in some sense, it's similar to the tobacco industry, right?
You know, that had for years had, you know, tried to appeal to children, get them hooked on smoking with a whole Joe Camel cartoon, all that kind of thing.
There's a little bit of that going on here, too.
But what struck me was what specifically they wanted to do as it was laid out in these documents.
was get basically shooting programs, marksmanship programs, rifle training, integrated into public school phys ed curriculums.
And the way they wanted to do it was to go through state education departments.
And they talked about how this was going to be a good way to do it because they could, and this is their own words now, they could slip it in and nobody would notice because they knew they would be controversial if they tried to do that.
And I found that to be really fascinating because it showed a self-awareness on their part that what they were proposing to do would be objectionable, perhaps, to many people.
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