NRA board members in Congress sponsored gun industry liability immunity

Evidence

In 2003, Senator Larry Craig of Idaho and House members Don Young of Alaska and Barbara Cubin of Wyoming, states with small populations but significant progun constituencies, sponsored a bill in both houses of Congress to grant the gun industry special exemptions from legal liability. The bill received the White House’s blessing. Senator Craig, who was sometimes referred to as the “senator from the NRA,” was on the board of the NRA, as were Young and Cubin. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1107

Categorization

• SEED: Potential essay angle: congressional ethics committees explicitly declined to examine blatant conflicts of interest between NRA board seats and progun legislation — the institutional process designed to catch exactly this was told the evidence and did nothing.