what is your ultimate reason for avoiding the NRA? is it just purely a defensive reaction to them being conservative? or do you have specific critiques of what they do?
I ask because I'm pretty confident there are no ethical guns, so if you go deep enough down the supply chains of any weapons manufacturer you'll probably find a lot of people that are ideologically opposed to you. There's no "harm reduction" for buying a gun. Commit to the fact that you're buying a weapon intended to kill, and understand that the way you use it moving forward is way, wayyy more important than the horror of its assembly.