While I am certainly not a huge fan of the NRA, last month's American Rifleman magazine from the NRA had a pretty decent defense of their choices. Whether you agree with their reasoning is your choice. They pointed out again their basis for endorsements, which I have to admit I tend to forget when I criticize their choices: first, that they are strictly a one-issue organization focused on the 2nd amendment only. Therefore they don't give a hoot about what the candidates views are on any or all other issues. Since some candidates have far from conservative views on many other issues, that means we sometimes think they are endorsing anti-gun candidates when they are not. Second they don't necessarily agree with or work with other conservative organizations on issues, again because they are strictly a one-issue group. I looked around the NRA website a little, hoping to find the editorial from Chris Cox, but I couldn't. I did find this which gives a little of the same info: http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/News....aspx?ID=14170 I think both articles are worth a read for people who really want to be informed.