In the first of a two part series, the I-Unit infiltrates the National Rifle Association of America and reveals its secret PR strategy when a mass shooting happens.
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How to Sell a Massacre
The I-Unit creates a fake, pro-gun organization called Gun Rights Australia in order to infiltrate the National Rifle Association of America. As mass shootings occur across the United States, members of the NRA describe how they stifle anti-gun rhetoric, pressure politicians and secretly manipulate media outlets to present arguments that more guns create a safer society.
An Australian gun advocacy group is chosen because the NRA is strongly opposed to the country’s strict gun control laws, which are popular and effective.
The infiltration of the NRA leads the I-Unit’s undercover team to a right wing Australian political party, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. Party leaders are seeking millions from the US gun lobby in the lead-up to a key Australian election.
How to Sell a Massacre
In part two, an Australian political party seeks $20 million in political funding from the US gun lobby while offering to undermine Australia’s democracy.
In part two, the One Nation delegation continues its visit to Washington and offers to influence Australia’s democracy as part of a bid to secure funding from energy giant, Koch Industries.
The One Nation contingent discusses how to launder ‘dark money so that its source would be concealed from Australia’s election commission. The party’s chief of staff tells the I-Unit undercover reporter that nothing about the trip should be written down. “If something of that nature was to be said, it needs to be said in person.”
The undercover operation also captures Pauline Hanson, the head of the One Nation party, questioning the truth about a massacre in Australia in 1996, which led to the country’s anti-gun legislation.
The I-Unit creates a fake, pro-gun organization called Gun Rights Australia in order to infiltrate the National Rifle Association of America. As mass shootings occur across the United States, members of the NRA describe how they stifle anti-gun rhetoric, pressure politicians and secretly manipulate media outlets to present arguments that more guns create a safer society.
An Australian gun advocacy group is chosen because the NRA is strongly opposed to the country’s strict gun control laws, which are popular and effective.
The infiltration of the NRA leads the I-Unit’s undercover team to a right wing Australian political party, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. Party leaders are seeking millions from the US gun lobby in the lead-up to a key Australian election.
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