The NRA has historically cared more about hunting than guns. If a restriction on guns didn&#x27;t burden hunting, they didn&#x27;t care. In the firearms community, people like this are pejoratively referred to as Fudds. Famously, the NRA supported the National Firearms Act of 1934, the Gun Control Act of 1968, and the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 (which banned new automatic weapons from going into civilian hands). There was a shift in the organization away from the Fudds in the early 1980s and again in the early 1990s. In recent years, the Fudds have lost much of their influence.<p>Respectfully, I think you should look carefully at the kinds gun regulations that are being proposed today. People are confused as to why the NRA would oppose background checks on all firearms transfers without understanding that all proposals put forth to date would create firearms registries, which have been abused in the past. If you came up to a solution to that (and didn&#x27;t add a new tax on firearms transfers), you might actually get the NRA&#x27;s support. Additionally, some state &quot;universal background check&quot; measures have done ridiculous things like make it illegal to lend a firearm to someone at a shooting range.