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Brown, Clyde. "Modeling Membership in the National Rifle Association." American Review of Politics 13 (July 1, 1992): 157–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.1992.13.0.157-172.

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This paper empirically tests several hypotheses offered by political scientists and economists to explain membership in political interest groups by examining the aggregate membership of the National Rifle Association (NRA) from 1921 to 1984. Intervention and transfer function ARIMA analysis is used to model membership on the basis of (1) qualitative changes in the level of material selective benefits offered prospective members, and (2) fluctuations in the number of people being discharged from the military. The NRA has an extensive history of institutional sponsorship. NRA membership increased dramatically with the onset of new selective material benefits in 1979 but did not decline when a reduction in selective material benefits occurred in 1968. Demobilization at the end of World War II had a significant impact on NRA membership and a positive relationship exists between NRA membership and the level of annual discharges from the military.
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KENNY, CHRISTOPHER, MICHAEL McBURNETT, and DAVID BORDUA. "The Impact of Political Interests in the 1994 and 1996 Congressional Elections: The Role of the National Rifle Association." British Journal of Political Science 34, no. 2 (2004): 331–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007123404000079.

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This article explores the role of organized interests in congressional elections by examining the influence of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in contested House races in 1994 and 1996. Most research on the electoral impact of organized interests reports that groups have a negligible impact on the outcome. Yet anecdotal evidence regarding NRA influence abounds, particularly in 1994. We construct an aggregate model of congressional vote share that allows us to systematically analyse the electoral impact of the NRA in 1994 and 1996 House races. Unlike previous research of this sort, we provide evidence that the NRA can have a statistically discernible effect on election outcomes, but not in all elections and for all candidates. The NRA endorsement was particularly helpful to Republican challengers in 1994 (and to some extent Republican incumbents), but much less helpful to Democrats. These effects are much reduced in 1996 for all candidates. Likewise, having lots of NRA members in the district helped Republican challengers the most (in 1994) and Democrats not at all. Finally, reasons as to why the NRA was able to amplify but not mitigate the party trend, as well as individual-level mechanisms that might produce an endorsement effect, are discussed.
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Steidley, Trent. "BIG GUNS OR BIG TALK? HOW THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION MATTERS FOR CONCEAL CARRY WEAPONS LAWS*." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 23, no. 1 (2018): 101–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.17813/1086-671x-23-1-101.

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Social movement organizations (SMOs) often aim to influence society through policy change. However, policy change may actually be the result of public opinion, political opportunities, or other factors, thus creating a spurious relationship between SMO activity and policy outcomes. Interestingly, the power of the National Rifle Association (NRA) to influence policy is often assumed but seldom tested. Drawing on social movement and political-sociological theories of policy change, this study assesses NRA influence on state-level firearm policy outcomes using the case of concealed carry weapons (CCW) laws. Using event-history analyses, I find the NRA does influence CCW laws, but its effect is mediated by public opinion, political ideologies, competitive elections, and political opportunities. Issue-specific public opinion and political ideologies also interact with one another to influence CCW laws. These findings build upon a growing literature that illustrates how SMOs interact with political contexts to generate policy change.
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Hodges, Adam. "The paranoid style in politics." Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism across Space and Genres 3, no. 1 (2015): 87–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlac.3.1.04hod.

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In American politics, the National Rifle Association (NRA) has asserted itself as a leading voice in the gun rights movement. The strident rhetoric emanating from the NRA leadership impacts the development of a broader discourse in American public life over gun rights — a discourse of Second Amendment absolutism — that articulates a set of assumptions and explanations in defense of an absolutist stance against gun regulation in any form. This paper examines the ideologies that underlie this absolutist discourse and the identities those ideologies help to construct. In particular, the absolutist discourse is analyzed through the lens of what historian Richard Hofstadter termed “the paranoid style in American politics.” The aim is to isolate and expose the extremist elements of this discourse, which polarize political debate and hinder the democratic process.
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Rosell, Ruth Lofgren. "Guns and human suffering: A pastoral theological perspective." Review & Expositor 117, no. 3 (2020): 333–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0034637320951187.

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This article considers the immensity of human suffering caused by gun violence. In an attempt to understand why the United States has not been able to enact reasonable gun control measures, I explore the origins and influence of gun culture and its shaping by the National Rifle Association (NRA). This situation is discussed from theological perspectives and concepts of idolatry, redemptive violence, the spiraling effects of violence as sin, and the nonviolence of Jesus. Finally, I consider pastoral responses in caring for individuals, the faith tradition, the congregation, and the larger sociocultural context.
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Weil, Douglas S., and David Hemenway. "I Am the NRA: An Analysis of a National Random Sample of Gun Owners." Violence and Victims 8, no. 4 (1993): 353–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.8.4.353.

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Data from a national random sample of gun owners (N = 605) were used to determine whether members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) are a representative sample of all gun owners and how well the NRA's lobbying positions on gun control reflect the views of its membership and of nonmember gun owners. No obvious demographic distinctions were identified between member and nonmember gun owners, but handgun owners (odds ratio [OR], 1.69; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.19to 2.39) and individuals who owned six or more guns as opposed to just one gun (OR, 1.95; 95% C1, 1.22 to 3.10) were more likely to belong to the NRA. Nonmembers were more supportive of specific proposals to regulate gun ownership (OR, 1.82; 95% C1, 1.14 to 2.91), but a majority of both member and nonmember gun owners favored a waiting period for the purcbase of a handgun (77% and 89%, respectively) and mandatory registration of handguns (59% and 75%).
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Faulkner, Sandra L. "Love & Guns: Orlando." Qualitative Inquiry 24, no. 5 (2017): 340–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800417741389.

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The author uses poetry to speak back to the ubiquitous talk, use, and idolization of guns in the United States and in her personal life. Scenes from a family Memorial Day picnic, runs in pro-gun country where it is common to stockpile guns and make ammo and attend conceal and carry classes at the local church, to hearing the news about the Orlando nightclub massacre while on a family vacation with her pro-National Rifle Association (NRA) family show the author’s personal struggle of how to act in her personal life when family members possess radically different and contrasting political values.
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Rasmussen, Chris. "From Garden State to Gun Control State: New Jersey’s 1966 Firearms Law and the NRA’s Rise as a Political Lobby." New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6, no. 2 (2020): 85–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.14713/njs.v6i2.214.

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In 1966, the New Jersey legislature passed An Act Concerning Firearms and Other Dangerous Weapons, which imposed significant regulations on gun buyers and dealers. Two years later, members of Congress frequently cited the Garden State’s tough gun control law as a model for the Gun Control Act of 1968. Although New Jersey’s 1966 firearms law has received little attention from scholars, the battle over gun control in New Jersey marked a significant turning point in the nationwide debate between supporters and opponents of gun control and exposed political fissures that endure today. The National Rifle Association (NRA) mobilized its membership to pressure New Jersey legislators to reject gun control. In its effort to oppose gun control in New Jersey, the NRA honed its arguments that gun control infringed upon citizens’ Second Amendment right “to keep and bear arms,” contended that gun laws would not reduce crime, and charged that keeping records of gun sales would ultimately lead to confiscation of firearms. The NRA’s fight against gun control in Trenton revealed the organization’s enormous influence and signaled its emergence as one of the most effective political interest groups in the United States.
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Kleck, Gary. "Bad Data and the “Evil Empire”: Interpreting Poll Data on Gun Control." Violence and Victims 8, no. 4 (1993): 367–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.8.4.367.

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Abusing the National Rifle Association (NRA) is always good sport for the intelligentsia and for gun-control true believers. Weil and Hemenway (pp. 353-365 in this issue) apparently could not resist the temptation to take some cheap shots at the “evil empire,” hanging their case on some dubious data from a commercial survey. Fun aside, two things are clear about this article. First, its conclusions bear little relationship to the evidence. The authors' survey data, even if taken at face value, simply do not support the authors' conclusions. Second, the data are in any case so seriously flawed that no reliable conclusions of any kind could be drawn from them on the subjects that the authors address.
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Chong, Miyoung. "Discovering fake news embedded in the opposing hashtag activism networks on Twitter: #Gunreformnow vs. #NRA." Open Information Science 3, no. 1 (2019): 137–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opis-2019-0010.

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Abstract After Russia’s malicious attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election were revealed, “fake news” gained notoriety and became a popular term in political discourses and related research areas. Empirical research about fake news in diverse settings is in the beginning phase while research has revealed limitedly that “what we know about fake news so far is predominantly based on anecdotal evidence.” The purpose of this study is to investigate fake news included in politically opposing hashtag activism, #Gunreformnow and #NRA (The National Rifle Association). This study attempted to lay out the process of identifying fake news in the hashtag activism network on Twitter as a two-step process: 1) hashtag frequency analysis, top word-pair analysis, and social network analysis and 2) qualitative content analysis. This study discovered several frames through a qualitative approach. One of the prominent fake news frames was intentionally misleading information that attacks the opposing political party and its advocators. The disinformation tweets overall presented far-right wing ideologies and included multiple hashtags and a YouTube video to promote and distribute their agendas while calling for coalition of far-right wing supporters. However, the fake news tweets often failed to provide a reliable source to back up credibility of the content.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "NRA; rifles"

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Young, Catherine L. "The National Rifle Association In Context: Gun Rights in Relation to the National Security State." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/362.

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The National Rifle Association (NRA) has dominated the debate over gun rights since the late 1960s. In many ways, its political power is unassailable. However, a historical analysis of the NRA's deeply rooted connection to the operations of the American government proves this has not always been so. This thesis is an examination of the mission and actions of the NRA through the lens of the government's expansion of power during and beyond the Cold War.
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Steidley, Trent Taylor. "Movements, Malefactions, and Munitions: Determinants and Effects of Concealed Carry Laws in the United States." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1466007307.

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Books on the topic "NRA; rifles"

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Hatcher, Julian S. Hatcher's notebook. Published for the National Rifle Association by Odysseus Editions, 1996.

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Jack, Anderson. Inside the NRA: Armed and dangerous : an exposé. Dove Books, 1996.

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Melody, Maysonet, ed. NRA: An American legend. Write Stuff Enterprises, Inc., 2002.

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Under fire: The NRA and the battle for gun control. University of Iowa Press, 1998.

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Davidson, Osha Gray. Under fire: The NRA and the battle for gun control. H. Holt, 1993.

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National Rifle Association of America. Range Department. The NRA range and source book: A guide to planning & construction. National Rifle Association, General Operations, Field Operations Division, 1999.

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Brown, Peter H. Outgunned: Up against the NRA : the first complete insider account of the battle over gun control. Free Press, 2003.

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G, Abel Daniel, ed. Outgunned: Up against the NRA : the first complete insider account of the battle over gun control. Free Press, 2003.

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Logachev, N. A., S. V. Rasskazov та E. V. Skli︠a︡rov. Kaĭnozoĭskiĭ kontinentalʹnyĭ riftogenez: Materialy Vserossiĭskogo nauchnogo simpoziuma s mezhdunarodnym uchastiem, posvi︠a︡shchennogo pami︠a︡ti akademika RAN N.A. Logacheva v svi︠a︡zi s 80-letiem so dni︠a︡ rozhdenii︠a︡, Irkutsk, 7-11 ii︠u︡ni︠a︡ 2010 g. = Cenozoic continental rifting : proceedings of All-Russia Symposium with International Participence Dedicated to the Memory of Academician N.A. Logatchev in Connection with the 80-th Anniversary of His Birth, Irkutsk, June, 7-11, 2010. In-t zemnoĭ kory SO RAN, 2010.

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Military Rifles: Nra Handbook. Natl Rifle Assn, 1992.

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Lacombe, Matthew J. "Explaining the NRA’s Power." In Firepower. Princeton University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691207445.003.0002.

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This chapter lays out a framework for answering why supporters of gun rights are so dedicated to their cause and why the National Rifle Association (NRA) and its members have such an important place in the Republican Party. It discusses how the NRA has crafted a worldview around guns, consisting of both a gun owner social identity and a broader political ideology. The chapter then looks into greater detail about each of these central ideas: the ideational resources of identity and ideology, and the party–group alignment that has been so central to the NRA's more recent political power. The chapter ends by circling back to the previous chapter's discussion of political power, exploring what the NRA can teach us about how power is built and exercised.
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Lacombe, Matthew J. "Gun Policy during the NRA’s Quasi-Governmental Phase." In Firepower. Princeton University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691207445.003.0005.

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This chapter focuses on the National Rifle Association's (NRA) efforts during its quasi-governmental phase. Looking at the National Firearms Act and Federal Firearms Act from the 1930s, as well as the Gun Control Act of 1968, the chapter explores how the NRA used this worldview to influence gun policy outcomes during its quasi-governmental phase. The chapter also demonstrates how the NRA harnessed this worldview to advance its political agenda during a period in which it abstained from partisan politics. The chapter then shifts to investigate how these were intertwined with — and often went beyond — other potential sources of power, such as the NRA's financial resources. It digs into a wide range of archival materials to identify how the NRA mobilized gun owners to defeat or weaken gun control legislation in the 1930s through the 1960s. Ultimately, the chapter aims to show that the NRA's ideational resources had independent impacts on key policy outcomes — that they mattered above and beyond any other advantages and resources that the NRA may have had.
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Lacombe, Matthew J. "The Political Weaponization of Gun Owners." In Firepower. Princeton University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691207445.003.0003.

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This chapter analyzes the editorials (1930–2008) from the National Rifle Association's (NRA) American Rifleman magazine, along with gun-related letters to the editor of four major newspapers covering that same period, to document how the NRA created a distinct social identity built around gun ownership, charting the NRA's assiduous, long-term efforts — through not just its membership communications but also its popular firearms programs — to cultivate such an identity and to connect it to politics. The chapter uses the American Rifleman as a measure of the organization's views and priorities and treat pro-gun letters to newspaper editors as a measure of the attitudes and views of NRA supporters. It also utilizes the letters from gun owners to measure their feelings about guns over time. The chapter demonstrates how the NRA has used this identity to mobilize its supporters into politics by portraying gun owners' ways of life as under threat from gun control proposals and imploring its members to take action in defense of it.
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Gilpin, Dawn R. "NRA Media and Second Amendment Identity Politics." In News on the Right. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190913540.003.0005.

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This chapter considers the National Rifle Association (NRA) as not merely a lobbying outfit, trade association, or hobbyist group, but as a full-fledged mediasphere. Since the early 2000s, the NRA has aggressively expanded its footprint within the broader right-wing media environment—it publishes four print magazines and a highly integrated array of micro-targeted online print and video content, social media platforms, and original online television programming. Via a content analysis of NRA.org, a site that aggregates and prioritizes content from across the group’s multimedia platforms, this chapter employs critical discourse analysis to illuminate the site’s populist themes and rhetorical styles. It finds that the NRA combines the trappings of news genres and right-wing discourses with populist modes of expression to amplify and reinforce the deep affective ties between gun ownership and conservative political identity.
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Lacombe, Matthew J. "Conclusion." In Firepower. Princeton University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691207445.003.0008.

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This chapter looks toward the future of both the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the gun debate more broadly. It discusses potential threats to the NRA's political influence, including its own internal struggles, the rise of more effective gun control advocacy organizations, and the potential downsides of its close relationship with the Republican Party. The chapter also talks about the potential generalizability of the book's findings to other groups and policy areas. It considers the lessons that other groups might learn from the NRA in terms of cultivating and using ideational power. Ultimately, the chapter notes its implications for our understanding of interest groups and political parties, and reflects on the NRA's place in American democracy.
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Lacombe, Matthew J. "Introduction." In Firepower. Princeton University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691207445.003.0001.

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This chapter focuses on the political power of the National Rifle Association (NRA), and asks the questions: What is the source of its power? How does it operate? How has it shaped gun policy and the broader political system? It looks beyond the NRA's use of financial resources and turns instead to what the chapter describes as ideational resources: the identity and ideology it cultivates among its members, which have enabled it to build an active, engaged, and powerful constituency. The chapter contends that the NRA has played a central role in driving the political outlooks and political activity of its supporters — activity that has had both direct and indirect influence on federal gun policy in the United States. Even from its earliest days as a relatively small organization dedicated to marksmanship, competitive shooting, and military preparedness, the NRA cultivated a distinct worldview around guns — framing gun ownership as an identity that was tied to a broader, gun-centric political ideology — and mobilized its members into political action on behalf of its agenda. The chapter analyzes how a group can construct an identity and an ideology, and what happens when it aligns these behind a single party.
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Lacombe, Matthew J. "The Party-Group Alignment of the NRA and the GOP." In Firepower. Princeton University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691207445.003.0006.

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This chapter chronicles the party–group alignment of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the GOP, detailing the constellation of factors that collectively facilitated this alignment, which began in the 1960s, culminated during the 1980 election, and has deepened in the decades since. It reveals how the NRA's cultivation of a group social identity and gun-centric political ideology made its supporters an attractive demographic group to conservative politicians, and laid the foundation for the group's eventual incorporation into the Republican coalition. The chapter also delves into the NRA's motivations for entering the realm of partisan politics, showing how funding challenges and internal conflicts led to the 1977 “Revolt at Cincinnati,” after which the NRA quickly became an active player in GOP politics. Ultimately, the chapter analyzes public opinion polls to document gun owners' increasing close relationship with the Republican Party — especially following the election of President Donald Trump.
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Lacombe, Matthew J. "Gun Policy during the NRA’s Partisan Phase." In Firepower. Princeton University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691207445.003.0007.

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This chapter looks back to the beginning of the National Rifle Association's (NRA) partisan phase in order to explore the effects of this position on the group's ability to influence gun policy outcomes. The chapter — examining a number of gun policy cases from the 1980s through the 2010s — questions how would NRA's efforts to advance its agenda — and the effectiveness of those efforts — shift in light of its new place in the political system. It also investigates how would the ideational resources it had used in previous gun control battles come into play. Ultimately, the chapter displays how NRA's relationship with the GOP has opened up new avenues, including influence over both the contents and timing of the legislative agenda.
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Lacombe, Matthew J. "“America’s First Freedom”." In Firepower. Princeton University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691207445.003.0004.

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This chapter employs the same American Rifleman editorials and gun control-related letters to explain how the National Rifle Association (NRA) has created a gun-centric political ideology, in which gun rights are central to a broader set of issue positions, and thus how gun rights became so closely related to contemporary conservatism in the United States. For many gun owners, gun rights stand at the center of a broader political ideology that embraces liberty, nationalism, limited government, and law and order. The chapter addresses the roots of this ideology and its relation to the gun owner identity by examining NRA's decades-long efforts to build an ideology around gun rights. Working in conjunction with its group identity, the NRA's ideology comprises the second stream of the gun-centric worldview it has used to advance gun rights. This group ideology increases the political unity of gun rights supporters — they are similar not just in their shared support for gun rights, but also along a broader range of issue positions and values. In connecting gun rights to other issues, the chapter unveils how ideology linked the gun owner identity to other politically relevant identities, strengthening each.
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