The upcoming midterm elections come at a crucial time for Americans' Second Amendment rights, NRA president Oliver North told Newsmax TV.
During an appearance on "The Joe Walsh Show," North said Thursday night that his organization is under a blistering attack on a regular basis.
"The NRA has never been subjected to this kind of attack. It's unprecedented," he said. "The extra-legal coercion that's being worked against us, the physical threats, the legal attacks the NRA is enduring, the destruction of personal property and private property … we've seen our spokespeople roughed up as they come and go from media encounters. I think that's unconscionable."
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North, who became the gun rights organization's president in May, said the NRA is in the midst of a push to double its membership so that its voice can be heard during the midterms season.
Electing members to the House and Senate who are for the Second Amendment is a high priority, North said.
"The so-called progressive agenda in this country is to take this midterm election and flip at least the House of Representatives. And if they could they'd flip the Senate," North pointed out.
"And at that point, the president of the United States loses the ability to appoint justices to the Supreme Court and the courts of appeals and the federal courts, who are gonna be pro-Second Amendment advocates, or judges. At that point, they've paved the way to a change in 2020.
"Our focus right now, like a laser, is to focus on this 2020 election to make sure that we elect a majority of pro-Second Amendment members of Congress and U.S. senators. We cannot dare afford to lose them because doing so will literally pave the road for the kind of catastrophe, this unconscionable idea that the Second Amendment could be repealed."
In terms of the nation's gun violence problem, North said solving it lies in enforcing existing laws rather than passing new ones that restrict Second Amendment rights.
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