The latter.
I grew up on a small farm outside of Odessa, Texas, in the 1970s/early 80s. It never even occurred to me that there were anti-gun people growing up, or that there was any politics related to gun ownership. We were the proverbial family with a filled gun rack in our Ford pickups my entire young life. There was always a revolver in the glove box for dispatching rattle snakes as the need arose.
That's exactly what the NRA used to be, at the height of its power. Any "pro-gun" organization associated with the Trump family is partisan by definition, and takes us in the wrong direction.
Sure, but the competition needs to come from an organization that puts gun rights first, not partisan interests first. The core problem with the NRA (apart from its internal corruption) is that it's become an arm of the Republican party. That means that it preaches only to a narrow partisan base, and has no clout outside that group. Any Trump-led group would just compound the problem. And remember, Trump Sr. basically isn't even pro-gun. (Judging from his antigun comments and actions.) The fruit (his son) doesn't fall far from the tree.
This right here. If they were gun rights supporters they'd have rolled back all the recent EO/EA and agency rulemaking stuff while broadly in power, replacing all sorts of agency heads, removing or ignoring oversight to get other policies passed. I had high hopes for many of these, say 41F. Easy. Probably a phone call vs even a written order and done. But... nothing. A few industry things (e.g. easier to sell suppressors overseas) were done, but they have nothing to do with our individual and domestic rights.
During his administration he made clear his stand on guns. Take them first the supply a reason after. Anyone who had to cut up a bump stock is reacting from a place of injury. I do not wish to make this political so my comment is removed. But I learn from life. I was only speaking of my experience.
