It’s a question I get all the time: What happened to the National Rifle Association?
It’s a question that hunters ask all the time. First, there’s an important distinction. The problem is with the NRA's leadership, not their members. As friends of mine like to say, the NRA has a "Field and Stream" membership, but a "Soldier of Fortune" leadership.
Over the past several years, the leadership’s hard core, confrontational approach to policy has undermined our hunting heritage. I firmly believe the declining number of hunters is directly related to the unpopularity of the NRA. That’s unfortunate – and if hunting is going to be preserved in the U.S., it has to change.
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