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The couple came to their first meeting for two reasons: both to check out the latest firearms and to stand up for an organization they believe is under attack. “We really wanted to be able to see this someday,” Joe Henderson said, gesturing to a massive convention center filled with guns and ammunition. There are seminars on firearm safety and Second Amendment law. Some said they were here just to see guns and wanted nothing to do with politics. “It just makes me angry when people try to demonize gun owners and NRA members,” said Scott Glenn, a retired law enforcement officer from Salida, Colo. “They try to look at all of us like baby killers and we’re not.” Glenn and his wife, Lynn, have been NRA members for 18 years. The couple sat at a table near a rack of .22 rifles in candy colors: red, purple and yellow. They applauded when he said that “Second Amendment rights are under siege” and called on members to vote Republican. Stewart thinks bump stocks should be illegal, that civilian background checks should be as robust as those in the military and that the age to own rifles such as the AR-15 should be raised to 21, with exceptions for people in the military or law enforcement. “I think they’re spot on and refuse to give up our rights,” Glenn said. Many people, she said, just don’t know gun owners.