Bingo, LH...

Actually I knew the answer to my rhetorical question...

Goldwater can be gigven credit for planting the seed... Yeah it took a while to grow but grow it did and with the help of OPEC the times werr ripe for Reagan...

I really don't count Nixon as part of the story... Nixon was, ahhhhh, Nixon... Not the kinda guy that would egt the Southern Stategist's all lathered up but seein' as the Dems had done the done the Southern whites folks wrong with the Civil Rights Act they voted for him anyway...

But, yeah, the 60's was all ther NRA needed to see... That's when they shifted... Too bad that they are so right winged because they weren't they would be in prime position to be the leading organization for gun safety, which BTW, is the future... Not gun ownership at all costs...

B~