The goals of the National Rifle Association is to promote and encourage rifle
shooting on a scientific basis. Members of the NRA focus on legislation that pays
particular attention to premier firearms education, and they are America’s foremost defender of Second Amendment rights. Their concerns are very broad. In comparison the Native American Movement has been largely focused on tribal sovereignty issues, the rights of tribal governments to self-determination. In many cases their demands have been quite narrow dealing with land and expanded to broader issues such as self-determination, questionable behavior of federal government in its