(I tend to agree with the NRA beign a grifting scam. I posted earlier about the secret NRA tapes, where NRA leaders in a phone conference insult their own members, calling them wackos, hillbillies and so on... even though they are the same people they mobilize to affect political outcomes.)

Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger slammed the National Rifle Association amid recent mass shootings.

"The NRA ... it's gone from defending rights of gun owners, it has become a grifting scam," he said during an interview on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday. "And all you have to do is look at the last few years of the grifting scam of the NRA to know that that's true."

The NRA has long opposed efforts to restrict access to guns. In 2011, it sued Texas in a failed effort to force the state to lower the legal age for possessing a handgun to 18 from 21. Kinzinger has called it a "no brainer" to raise the age requirements.