# The omnibus NRA thread

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 11, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-nra-thread/812234 "2018-04-11T18:13:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-nra-thread/812234/1 "2018-04-11T18:13:51Z")

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I figured I’d start a new NRA thread, instead of folding them all into the gun or Stupid Republican threads.

In today’s news, after denying they have ever received any money from Russians, the NRA has started admitting that yes, they are taking money from Russians.

Also, one lifetime member of the NRA is Russian bank official Alexander Torshin, who is on the list of Russian oligarchs who were sanctioned by Trump last week.

> **[NRA, In New Document, Acknowledges More Than 20 Russian-Linked Contributors](https://www.npr.org/2018/04/11/601534305/nra-in-new-document-acknowledges-more-than-20-russian-linked-contributors)**
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> The National Rifle Association now tells Congress it received a small amount of money from fewer than two dozen Russians or people in Russia since 2015.

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**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-nra-thread/812234/2 "2018-04-11T19:33:49Z")

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The NRA recently came out against[a bill in Louisiana](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/637/words-you-cant-say/act-two-5) that would ban students bringing replica guns to school. the bill said nothing about _owning_ replicas, and said nothing at all about real guns; just that students would not be allowed to carry replicas at school.

“House Bill 43, was aimed at helping law enforcement combat what officials call a growing problem – students bringing toy guns to public schools that look identical to the real thing.  
Banning the guns, [Rep. Dodie Horton, R-Haughton] said, would help prevent police from having to make a split-second call, and injure or kill a student wielding a lookalike pistol.”

> **[Bid to ban toy guns in public schools quietly withdrawn](https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_986cb390-2602-11e7-814a-e7d182461ecb.html)**
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> Barely a month ago the powerful Louisiana Sheriffs' Association was lining up behind a bill to ban toy guns from public schools.

The Louisiana Sheriff’s Assoc was backing the bill.

The NRA was against the bill because it promoted anti-gun thinking.

“Now the legislation is dead, a victim of Republican infighting and the politically potent National Rifle Association.” [ibid]

Students are already[prohibited in LA from carrying real guns at school](http://legis.la.gov/Legis/law.aspx?d=78741)

mc