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Part Three: Harlon Carter: the Man Who Militarized the Cops and the NRA

Behind the Bastards

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The Rise and Fall of the NRA

By 1986, LaPierre is running the NRA's entire lobbying arm. He has turned it into "the most effective lobbying organization in DC" The individualist interpretation of the Second Amendment makes its way to the Supreme Court for the first time in 2001. And then this was reinforced by 2008's D.C. versus Heller ruling on a handgun ban.

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