It's clear that the NRA has been failing to carry out its stated mission for many, many years,

and instead has operated as a breeding ground for greed, abuse, brazen illegality.

Even common sense measures with broad public support, like background checks, license requirements, and a ban on assault weapons have been completely shut down.

In order to fight them, we need to understand how they are doing it.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckreg Podcast. I'm J.R. G.8 Sexton. As always, I'm here with my co-host, Nick Houselman.

We got to talk about the NRA today and what a total shit show that is.

The New York Attorney General, Letitia James, has filed a lawsuit that seeks to dissolve the National Rifle Association.

Couldn't have happened to a better group of people.

We need to go in depth about the history of the NRA

and how they became the fascistic organization

that we all know and love today

that promotes the slaughter of Americans

and also the erosion of democratic institutions.

Before we do, a special announcement.

We're going to be releasing our first

patreon exclusive episode today uh nick and i are going to be talking about the movie jaws

1975's uh stephen spilberg flick jaws talking about it as a metaphor for hyper-capitalistic America in the grips of a

pandemic. I'm excited. How about you, Nick? Oh, yeah, I got lots of metaphors to talk about. It's going to be

We got metaphors. We got we got mares in nautical theme jackets. Oh, I've been, I've been,

I've been, I'm racking my brains to make connections here. You don't have to kind of maybe get me off the ledge in case I've been, I've been, I've been racking my brains to make connections here.

You don't have to kind of maybe get me off the ledge in case I've gone a little too far with some

of them, but I'm anxious to share them with you. I'm really pumped because not only that

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