A while ago I mentioned in passing the big anti-gun billboard that faces Mass Pike near Fenway Park. (I totally misunderstood its message at the time, thinking it was a “yay, Massachusetts” message.)

Anyway, from the attention-grabbing, highly confrontational and emotional messages that that billboard usually features, you’d think the sponsor would be a militant anti-gun group. Not really. The Dig has the scoop:

“We need a nationwide membership group to engage reasonable gun owners who don’t think there should be unrestricted access to guns for kids, criminals and terrorists, and that’s what the NRA thinks. We’re going to set the record straight—you can be for gun rights and for violence prevention. It’s just common sense to lock your gun, require background checks and not sell 50-caliber assault rifles with no questions asked to any fanatic, terrorist and criminal.”

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