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wodenokototoday at 2:57 AM1 replyview on HN

For an American enterprise? Yes, obviously.

Should NRA hand out guns to everyone who can’t get a permit where permits are required? Of course not. If they are against gun permits they have to fight the law, not break it.


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Supermanchotoday at 1:35 PM

The National Rifle Association (NRA) describes itself as America’s longest-standing civil rights organization.

That is a specific US-internal stance.

There's a list of organizations that started in the US, ultimately having had to work around the US legal system, in pursuit of their missions:

re Planned Parenthood Global, WikiLeaks, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Center for Reproductive Rights, selected programs of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, et al