Sen. Gillibrand's Latest Talking Point About The NRA Is Completely False [More]
It would be hard to find someone with more contempt for her
than me, but the claim that "NRA is largely funded by the gun manufacturers" should be evident to anyone who has ever looked through one of their magazines and seen all the ads. In a few weeks members will be going to a convention where the industry has spent a fortune renting booths.
Add to that the Round-Up program, endowments, corporate sponsorships and the like --
here's just one example.
That doesn't invalidate the "five million members" claim (although I'd like to see that substantiated) or say that those members don't provide substantial funding themselves -- but that's not the claim being made here, is it?
The "completely false" assertion misinforms. And it does so in a way that transitions what Gillibrand claims into something she did not.