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> Jeff Sessions was involved in prosecution of civil rights activists in Alabama, and is known for his hard anti-drug stance. Both of those are pertinent to civil rights, yet NRA ignored it.

Those are good points. They also concern me. Is there a better organization which fights for second amendment rights that you recommend?

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I'm afraid I don't have a good (as in, satisfying) answer to this question. I do have a more broad answer, however:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13536435

The non existence of other orgs fighting for second ammendment rights, even if it were true, is a pretty weak argument for supporting this particular one, especially given that you agree there are good reasons not too do so.

To keep from repeating myself, I'm going to link to another comment I just made -- but I prefer the SAF to the NRA.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13634802

https://www.saf.org/

I would not recommend SAF anymore. The reason is that their (effectively) lobbying wing, CCRKBA, had also endorsed Sessions, using even stronger wording than NRA.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ccrkba-urges-members...

"Instead of promoting or defending schemes that impact law-abiding Americans, his track record shows that he will go after genuine criminals."

Note that the man who said this is Alan Gottlieb, who's also effectively the head of SAF.

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