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🗓️ 24 May 2021
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0:00.0 | From New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro. This is a Daily. |
0:10.0 | For years, the National Rifle Association, America's most powerful gun rights group, |
0:15.0 | has been embroiled in a potentially devastating investigation in New York. |
0:21.0 | Today, my colleague, Danny Hague, on how the NRA's plan to circumvent that investigation, |
0:29.0 | just backfired. |
0:33.0 | It's Monday, May 24th. |
0:39.0 | Danny, when we last spoke to you back in 2019, |
0:42.0 | the Attorney General of New York, Latissa James, had just launched what she described as a major investigation |
0:48.0 | into the National Rifle Association. |
0:50.0 | And a lot of people's reaction was, okay, we'll wait and see, but this is the NRA. |
0:56.0 | Nobody really lays a finger on that organization. It's kind of impervious to anything and anyone. |
1:03.0 | And so there were a lot of questions around whether or not her investigation would really get that far. |
1:09.0 | That's right. I mean, this is now 150-year-old organization. |
1:13.0 | And this is the first time it's really had a major confrontation with a regulator. |
1:18.0 | And for the last 30 years, you know, we Americans, |
1:24.0 | we live for your lives than anyone else on the planet. |
1:29.0 | It's been led by Wayne LaPierre. |
1:32.0 | And I'm proud to lead an organization of five million patriotic members. |
1:38.0 | Yeah, five million. |
1:40.0 | LaPierre was a lobbyist, not really known as a gun enthusiast by his own admission. |
1:46.0 | He came in, bolstered membership in the organization. He raised a ton of money. |
1:51.0 | And he cemented the NRA's place as the face of the gun lobby. |
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