Listen to ‘The Daily’: The Power of the N.R.A.

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Every mass shooting in the United States is inevitably followed by a call for gun control, but major legislation never passes.

We look at how the National Rifle Association became a powerful lobbying group.

Also, a gun store owner talks about putting military-style weapons into the hands of civilians.

On today’s episode:

• Robert Draper, a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine, talks about the history of the N.R.A.

• John Markell, owner of a gun store in Roanoke, Va., discusses his business.

Background reading:

• Founded in 1871 to teach marksmanship to city-dwelling Union soldiers, the N.R.A. was originally a nonpolitical and noncontroversial league of sportsmen. Everything changed during the urban tumult of the 1960s.

• President Trump, who is to visit Las Vegas today, said, “We will be talking about gun laws as time goes by.” But the shooting appears to have done little to change the gun debate in Washington.

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