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 :To be clear, I see no evidence that the 1875 NRA was a racist militia.  (It is very reasonable to guess that being located in a Union State that they were sympathetic to Union politics at the time.)  My point is that this ""ban handgun ownership"" sentence in this article serves to frame this article within a ""slippery slope"" political argument mirroring that is seen on the gun blogs.  The present day Brady Campaign is not opposed to taking away handguns from law abiding people.  To insert the 1976 ""long-term goal of the organization was a ban on handgun ownership"" statement is a Red Herring and violates WP:NPOV. Consistently, for a very long time now, the Brady position has been ""defer to the judgments of elected officials who enact reasonable regulations on gun ownership, short of a broad gun ban, to protect the public from gun violence."".  To be NPOV, we should not mirror the gun blog disinformation trying to implicate that Brady has some secret goal of a total ban on handgun ownership.     "