The NRA Targets Latinos

By Gregory Smith

SellingTheSecondAmendment.com

Former Olympic pistol-shooter Gabby Franco looks directly into the camera and says: “The government took our guns…the biggest mistake Venezuelans made was believing that this would never happen.”

The 35-year-old Venezuelan-American, who came to the U.S. when she was 21 years old, is part of the National Rifle Association’s newest national ad campaign called “Freedom’s Safest Place.”

In a dramatic minute, Franco warns Americans that her family and friends back in Venezuela have had their gun rights stripped away from them over the last few years – suggesting that as a result the country is suffering record violence under criminals who now outgun unarmed citizens.

“Today, they would do anything for the Second Amendment freedom that we enjoy as Americans,” she says while warning, “never ever take it for granted.”

What Franco didn’t say is that she is part of the NRA’s latest push to attract membership among Hispanics, the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the country. Though the NRA will not publicly say it is trying to woo Hispanics, experts say the NRA views the minority group as a potent force to try and grow its aging membership.

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