The NRA's Role in the Gun Industry

Harlan Carter is the kind of guy who thinks children should be routinely carrying handguns on their person. The NRA acted repeatedly to defend the rights of gun manufacturers to build dangerously shoddy firearms. In 1975, he did it again when a colleague introduced a bill making a second run at giving the CPSC firearms authority. You put in there and express prohibition against their getting them into the business of regulating firearms and ammunition,. That second bill was crushed, 339 to 80. And the issue has never been seriously considered again.