FRONTLINE Answers Your Questions About the NRA

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January 6, 2015

In recent years, the National Rifle Association (NRA) has dominated gun politics in America.

But it wasn’t always that way.

In Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA, premiering on air and online tonight, FRONTLINE reveals how the NRA reinvented itself from a group of gun enthusiasts and sportsmen with minimal political focus, to a powerful lobbying force that has consistently succeeded in defeating new gun control legislation.

In the run-up to tonight’s premiere, we asked you for your questions about the NRA.

Filmmaker Michael Kirk responded in the videos below:



Patrice Taddonio

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