No, NRA Not ‘Foreign Asset’ Of Russian Government

By Tom Knighton

Over the weekend, headlines all over the internet claimed that the National Rifle Association, the oldest civil rights organization in the United States, was really a “foreign asset” of the Russian government. It’s a sensational headline and, in fairness, these media outlets didn’t just make up this claim. No, they were quoting a report that said precisely that.

However, the report also isn’t what it was made out to be.

As David Harsanyi wrote over at The Federalist:

National Public Radio’s Tim Mak has been on the NRA-is-a-Russian-front beat for some time now. You may find a journalistic project predicated on a determined outcome a bit odd, but that’s how things seem to work these days.

The latest article in the series is headlined “NRA Was ‘Foreign Asset’ To Russia Ahead of 2016, New Senate Report Reveals,” and it reads like a partisan talking points memo, with not a single hint of skepticism to be found anywhere. The “report” itself, written by teSen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, is larded with suspenseful prose that works to create the impression that completely legal and innocuous interactions are part of a nefarious plot. The only thing it “reveals” is that Senate Democrats …Read the Rest

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