The guilty are ordinary members of the NRA, decent law-abiding folk who allow themselves to be misled by their Association’s relentless propaganda into believing every gun control measure is aimed at denying their right to keep a weapon for self-defense or hunting. They’ve bought the NRA lie, for instance, that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives persecutes honest gun dealers. On the contrary, a review of federal cases over five years shows the agency has focused on the lawbreakers who lack records for the sale of hundreds of thousands of firearms.