NY Times compares NRA carrying water for gun makers to corporate claims of constitutional rights. Posted on December 21, 2012 (November 2, 2020) Democracy Amendments The New York Times has an editorial today castigating the National Rifle Association for doing the bidding of gun manufacturing companies, rather than its members. It cites NRA members’ support for background checks before sales are made at gun shows, which the NRA has opposed, as an example. The editorial also appropriately places the gun makers’ efforts to sell more of their product, without regard to public preferences or safety, in the context of the fight we’re leading to end the fiction that corporations have constitutional rights: Read More