Mike McIntire
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first heard Jul 2026
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I also wrote about some more in my book.
uh, tracing where this money came, came from and where it went.
Um, and, and this is not a, a new thing, although I think I agree says the United certainly put it on, you know, steroids, but the NRA perfected this model going back decades, you know, with their report cards on politicians, they basically would, you know, shut off the spigot, you know, for campaign funds to mainly Republicans who didn't toe the line on, on gun policy.
But I think that since this is united, yes, we've definitely seen an easier flow of money into places, you know, where they're affecting jurisprudence.
They're helping shape justice.
court decisions by in this case, filing briefs, you know, paying for lawyers and scholars to, um, produce work that is, um, pro gun rights.
Um, and look, if the work is legit and, you know, kids academically sound or whatever, then that's one thing.
But there have been questions about even this.
There's been judges who've not decided to pay attention to certain scholarly reports and things that have been paid for by the gun lobby, basically, because they question the methodology and the quality of the work.
So I think there's definitely that factor which has kind of tilted the scales a bit on gun laws in the United States.
There's a really useful analogy to the tobacco industry here.
Right.
Because if you remember the cigarette companies were, you know, doing much the same thing with their own products, um, to try to basically cultivate the next generation of smokers.
And so you had the whole thing with the Joe camel, you know, cigarettes, the cartoon character and all that.
Um, the gun lobby had its own ways of doing something similar and, and the motives and incentives were also similar.
You know, so the NRA really wanted to make sure they were sort of seeding the ground for the next generation of NRA members and people who would want to be gun owners and perhaps join the organization.
The gun industry, the companies that make and sell guns are interested pretty much in the same thing.
They want to make sure there's a new generation of young people who are interested in shooting, learning how to use guns, and then ultimately buying them themselves.
But how they targeted kids in order to achieve this
is really kind of fascinating and in some ways concerning to a lot of people.
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