Gun Control Org Resurfaces New NRA Prez’s Speech to White Supremacist Group

A leading gun control group accused the National Rifle Association of acting to “fan the flames of extremism” by choosing former congressman Bob Barr as its new president—citing a long-acknowledged speech to a white supremacist group Barr gave while serving as a U.S. representative from Georgia.

“The fact that the NRA board of directors handpicked a president who was the keynote speaker at a convention of blatant white supremacists tells you everything you need to know about the state of the organization,” Emma Brown, executive director at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, told The Daily Beast of Barr’s 1998 speech to the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) in Charleston, South Carolina.

Founded in 1985, the CCC espouses racist views prominently, including opposition to interracial marriage, which one member, writing a website column around the time of Barr’s speech, called “genocide via the bedroom chamber” that would turn the U.S. into “a slimy brown mass of glop.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.