The NRA’s feared power is an artifact of primary politics, not general elections

Evidence

In genuinely competitive general elections, the NRA’s political clout is considerably weaker than the political power attributed to it (Johnson, 2012). In many of these races the NRA-backed candidates win the primaries but lose in general elections despite heavy financial backing from the NRA. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1230

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the vault’s portrait of NRA/interest-group dominance; the group’s real leverage is structurally tied to low-turnout primaries, not mass persuasion. — connects to: The NRA’s political power is far weaker in competitive general elections.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1230