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The @NRA & #gun companies are not evil but they are part of the problem. And the amazing thing is: all the folks clamoring to #BoycottNRA don't even know how bad it really is!
5 things the #NRA & gun manufacturers have successfully lobbied to create...

1) Background chk system overseen by the ATF that is forbidden to digitize records & so must keep all records on paper
2) BG chk system that is enormously hobbled at ATF bec of extreme funding shortages so that it can't do its job well & so that the NRA can claim it doesn't work

3) Passage of the #Dickey Amendment that forbids gov't research from reaching conclusions that might be construed as advocating for gun control, thus allowing the #NRA to say, "No studies show..." and leaving legislators with no data to back up laws that might work

4) Passage of #Tiahrt Admnt that forbids the #ATF from sharing trace data on crime guns with any entity other than the PD directly working on the crime. So, no criminologist, sociologists, health experts -- no one can get vital data to figure out the crime angle to the problem

5) Forbidding the Consumer Product Safety Comm. @USCPSC from having jurisdiction over guns, so that there is NO safety oversight for consumers and manuf. are free from all liability for their product.
This is a SYSTEMIC problem & will take a long time to fix.
#ENOUGH