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Josh Sugarmann is an American activist for gun control in the United States. He is the executive director and founder in 1988 of the Violence Policy Center, a non-profit advocacy and educational organization, and the author of two books on gun control.

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Today’s NRA is nothing less than a gun industry trade association masquerading as a shooting sports foundation.

Assault weapons and high-capacity concealed carry handguns are the bread and butter of today's gun industry.

The grotesque irony? The National Shooting Sports Foundation locale. They’ve taken the lead in working to rebrand assault weapons as modern sporting rifles.

Today's NRA is a virtual subsidiary of the gun industry. While the NRA portrays itself as protecting the 'freedom' of individual gun owners, it's actually working to protect the freedom of the gun industry to manufacture and sell virtually any weapon or accessory.

Somehow they managed to make the N.R.A. the victims of the Newtown shootings. I think the average American would be shocked by their language.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Josh Sugarmann (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.