Hidden cameras and fake websites: Inside the investigation into One Nation's bid for NRA donations

By Peter Charley Updated March 27, 2019 06:07:35 Photo: One Nation's Steve Dickson and James Ashby travelled to the US to meet with gun lobby officials. (Supplied: Al Jazeera) [1] It all started in 2015 with a ride to the airport. I was driving from Washington DC to make a flight overseas when I heard a report on the radio of yet another mass shooting in America. As details of the killings were being broadcast, I happened to be driving through Fairfax, Virginia, right past the headquarters of the National Rifle Association of America. I glanced at the building and wondered, "What are they saying in there about what I'm hearing out here?"The NRA's public reaction on a massacre tend to follow a pattern: stay quiet for as long as possible and then, if the media persists, attack them as anti-gun activists, even "silent enablers" of the tragedy. So, I decided to find a way to get into the organisation to hear for myself what America's most powerful gun lobby group says behind closed doors about such events. NRA's 'vehement' opposition to Australian gun lawsHow does the NRA formulate corporate strategies to manage the media in the wake of a mass shooting? What discussions take place around the pressuring of members of Congress to follow the NRA's pro-gun messaging? Is there dissent within the organisation over their promotion of the AR-15 assault rifle, a firearm that's become a weapon of choice for mass killers in America and which was used in both the Port Arthur massacre and the recent mass killing in Christchurch?It had become clear to me that the NRA was fervently opposed to Australia's National Firearms Agreement, the gun-control legislation introduced following the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. The NRA frequently attacked the law and those within the

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