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Just imagine if the mainstream media reported this scene straight.

The Second Amendment was restored, brick by brick, in a decades-long battle spearheaded by the NRA that continues to this very day.

After more than four decades of dedicated Second Amendment advocacy work, Marion P. Hammer is retiring from her position as Florida state lobbyist for the NRA Institute for Legislative Action.

NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) was created in 1975, then saved and strengthened by NRA members in the 1977 Annual Meeting, in the “Revolt at Cincinnati.”

The NRA Grassroots Army is all over the country defending our Second Amendment-protected rights.

When I step in front of audiences to speak, I always take a moment to look out through the lights at yet another diverse crowd of NRA members. I glance at individual faces and see men and women, youngsters and veterans, people of every ethnicity and from all occupations.

We all know the old adage that those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. Sayings like this only stick around long enough to permeate a culture when they point to greater truths, as this one does.

As many of you are aware, the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action is a vital part of the communications lifeline for the preservation of Second Amendment rights.

Growing up in New York City during the ‘70s and ‘80s, I saw firsthand the tremendous injustices created by so-called “gun-control” laws.