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  • 2016-06-23 (xsd:date)
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  • 'Share the Safety' Web Site Not Affiliated with the NRA (en)
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  • In June 2016, after the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub that prompted renewed debate about gun regulations in the U.S. — a subject in which the National Rifle Association (NRA) is always in the forefont — many Internet users reported that they had received an unusual press release from the NRA announcing Share the Safety, a revolutionary online gun store that would allow people to donate guns to poor residents in at-risk neighborhoods: In addition to the above-quoted press release, the ShareTheSafety.org web site was launched to inform people how they could participate in the new program: However, neither the web site nor the press release is affiliated with the NRA. Amber Niblock, the digital media manager for the NRA, confirmed that the Share the Safety web site was a hoax: The ShareTheSafety.org web site used several tactics to fool users into thinking they were viewing an official NRA web site. For instance, all of the social media links on ShareTheSafety.org pointed to official NRA accounts, and the fake press release was published on a web site nearly identical to that of the National Rifle Association's lobbying arm, the Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA): One obvious difference between the two web sites to knowledgeable viewers was that the fake press release was published on NRApress.org (not affiliated with the NRA) while the NRA-ILA's web site resides at nraila.org. (en)
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