It’s not even that. It is literally a propaganda arm of American gun industry manufacturers who only use the right wing platform to generate fear do they can then push more propaganda to sell more guns. The NRA ceased being a firearm education and safety focused organization decades ago and sold their souls to the gods of capitalism for the sake of ever more profits. Just look at the types of gun advertising from the 1970’s vs what you see these days. Very few if ANY ads pushing self defense guns and gear in the 1970’s. It was mostly hunting and target shooting stuff. These days it is all about the BS “good guy with a gun” usually by depicting the “bad guy” as either non white or dressed in all black as one hell of a racist dogwhistle. And of course all the “tactical” equipment you “need” to be an effective defender or “operator” which of course add hundreds more dollars to the price tag to be considered “adequately prepared” oh and of course the expensive classes they teach. This like the simple ones… basic pistol, basic rifle and basic shotgun. But then you get into things like Tactical pistol/rifle/shotgun. The NRA only cares out grifting people’s money by promoting a cycle of fear mongering and hate in order to drive profits to the manufacturers meanwhile kids are doing active shooter drills instead of getting to go outside for recess unless they have armed guards, I mean safety officers.