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The overreaching statements and lies are one issue, but to me they are just a minor issue. The major issue is the negative influence it has had on simple things like working heavily against the CDC (to ridiculous levels) of studying gun violence. Introducing rules and regulations that hobble the ATF like banning them from using technique more advanced than paper and microfiche, not allowing things to be computerized. Hobbling the number of agents of the ATF to ridiculously low numbers, even their gun crime division is ridiculously under funded.
It is not the fact that the NRA embellishes and tells outright lies, it is the fact that they have crippled study into gun violence and the ability to find and fight the bad guy with the gun so that they do not reflect poorly on the good guys with the guns.
The second amendment is written in stone, and that is a good thing, it is the way people in the US want it to remain and being so unequivocal (the 2nd amendment that is) makes it safe from government overreach (which again is a good thing) but banning the ATF from using computers and the CDC from even studying gun violence is an overreach too.
the only people who want the CDC to engage in an area where it really has no business in are those in the anti gun camp. And the anti gun movement tells more lies in a week than the NRA has in a century