1975: The NRA Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) was formed. ILA is the lobbying arm of the NRA. ILA is committed to preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Those who insist history turns on a one-way ratchet, and that liberties, once lost, are never recovered, have clearly not been following the work of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and its millions upon millions of members.
As courts again rule that police have no duty to protect individual Americans, anti-gun activists continue to push schemes to make armed self-defense more difficult.
Liberals have been taking a more active role at shareholder meetings, prompting an imbalance of shareholder advocacy allows them to try to hold business hostage.