8th March 2018, 11:42 PM
Try 40 years ago. That's when the total change in leadership happened. The old version of the organization would have welcomed some gun regulation so long as hunters could still hunt, and they never tried to promote the "guns exist to PROTECT YOUR FAMILY from... um... suburban invaders" line of thinking.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)