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The NRA went from being a primarily-sporting group of the type you mention to being a primarily-political one as a result of the Cincinnati revolt. This isn't Michael Moore history - "The NRA leadership was useless until a grassroots takeover put real 2nd amendment supporters into place" is the story gun rights activists tell themselves. The NRA was not a white supremacist organisation either before or after the change, but the new leadership was dominated by Southern conservatives, and the vast majority of Southern conservatives in the 1970's were white supremacists by modern standards. "Jim Crow is protected by states' rights under the Constitution", "Civil Rights law is an unconstitutional expansion of federal power", and "Reconstruction was an abuse of power by carpetbaggers and scallywags" were all standard Southern conservative positions at the time, and "Jim Crow is good actually" was still within the Overton window.
Yes. And the 1977 Cincinnati revolt was a result of the Gun Control Act of 1968. Which itself was AFTER the end of Jim Crow.
I presume that if you had evidence that the actual leaders of the NRA following said revolt were supporters of Jim Crow, you'd have posted it.
The fact that they were Southern conservatives is Bayesian evidence that were supporters of Jim Crow, given that the vast majority of Southern conservatives born before the civil rights era were supporters of Jim Crow. The racist murder that Harlon Carter was convicted of was of a Hispanic, so it is definitely possible that he wasn't shockingly racist against blacks, just unlikely.
In any case the claim I was trying to make was the slightly weaker claim that the leaders of the Cincinnati revolt were people who accepted the moral assumptions of the Dunning School of history (which would have been taught as uncontroversial fact in the high schools and colleges they attended) and would therefore have seen the 1st Klan as an example of righteous-but-doomed resistance to tyranny and the Redemption-era white militias as a good example of successful resistance. The set of people who thought that the 1st Klan were the goodies in Birth of a Nation (which was not small - the movie enjoyed mainstream success) is much larger than the set of people who were actively working to bring back Jim Crow in 1977. The Sons of Confederate Veterans gave Nathan Bedford Forrest a posthumous honour in 1977, so "the 1st Klan were the goodies" was still comfortably within the Overton window at the time.
I am happy to admit that I have no evidence whatsoever that Neal Knox was a segregationist apart from the fact that it was normal for white Texans who attended segregated Christian colleges in the 1950's to be segregationists.
OK, so you don't actually have evidence that the particular people involved supported Jim Crow. You just want to use the word "Bayesian" to justify your stereotyping. Your intimation that Carter and Knox were supporters of the Klan (any Klan) is, I presume, similarly supported, and comes down to "they were Texans".
He wasn't convicted of having racist motivations in the killing, and his conviction was overturned on the grounds that the jury was not adequately instructed on the law of self-defense.
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