The previous information though true, is cleverly put together but it is close to point!

The people who comprised the NRA at that time period are not the same ones who are in charge if it today. They are a different ilk altogether!
In that era, the NRA was rightly about gun safety, people taking ownership of their weapons but when the deception of what America was found out, many citizens recoiled in fear when their own
laws were used against them. The initial Mulford Bill would force the BPP to stop their patrols so some members of the BPP legally with open public display of weapons (as their right) went into the California Assembly Building with weaponry reading a legal Mandate of the present legal structure to carry arms. It was this impetus that Ronald Reagan signed into law the improved Mulford Bill!