The NRA transformed the Second Amendment from militia duty into private self-defense.

Evidence

The Second Amendment had always been interpreted to mean that individuals can own guns to answer the call as a civilian militia to defend their country. In a controversial split decision across ideological lines, the Supreme Court granted gun rights to individuals independent of militia service ( District of Columbia v. Heller, 2008). Professor Michael Waldman (2014) of the New York University School of Law has traced the political machinations, spearheaded by the NRA, that turned the Second Amendment permitting citizens to bear arms for the militia defense of a free state into a private right of self-defense. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1180

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s vault claims about how organized interest groups reshape political language and moral framing to legitimize policy positions.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1180