The National Rifle Association was started to promote safe use of guns, not to increase the use of guns.

Their courses in proper handling of firearms are considered the best you can find. Please look up a location near you.

About armor-piercing bullets and automatic weapons, does anyone have any proof that their legalization is part of the official policy of the NRA? I doubt that it is.

I first heard that machine guns were banned in 1934 in an interview with Charlton Heston. He was adamant that the ban was a good thing. He had a world-class collection of firearms, all locked in gun safes and their firing mechanisms stored in another locations.