> Politically they "have to" align to gun safety, because who doesn't like "safety"
NRA membership is large enough that they also conform to similar values as the general public.
As such, they also want weapons to be as safe as possible, while still remaining effective weapons.
An anti-gun member of the public doesn't want guns to be 'weapons', they want them to be 'hobby tools' which would allow you to compromise effectiveness to an extreme just to get safety.
To me the anti-gun lobby is disingenuous by framing gun ownership as a "hobby". Why in the world would there be a constitutional amendment about a hobby? This is like writing a constitution where the 2nd line talks about the rights to own basketballs.
The question the rest of the world asks is why a country would unquestionably abide to a 200 year old piece of paper, whereas the rest of the worlds countries are old enough to understand that things become obsolete.
But I guess it's the same with religion, and that's global.
NRA has an interest in everyone being able to have guns. Politically they "have to" align to gun safety, because who doesn't like "safety"?
They're not a group that has an interest in "safety above all", because that wouldn't include guns.
Their priorities are:
1) Guns.
2) Safety, as long as it doesn't infringe on 1).