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a position which completely trumped skeet-club photo ops aimed at reassuring the tiny percentage of gun owners who are wingshooters. He completely misunderstood the demographics of gun ownership (the vast majority of gun owners are nonhunters) and apparently wasn't all that familiar with existing Federal firearms law, either.
The NRA is 4 million people out of 80 million gun owners, 40-50 million of whom own handguns, 20 million own "assault weapons", and 12-16 million hunt. The NRA is a relatively small group with a a modest amount of money in the big scheme of things. What hurt Kerry wasn't so much the NRA as Kerry's alienation of Dem, indie, and moderate repub gun owners in general.
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