It wouldn't surprise me if it is the former case; the NRA has been hiring some pretty poor representatives in my opinion in the last few years, who have made a few comments to reporters that have not served the organization well. This could well be yet another case of an NRA representative fumbling the ball, or it could be another case where the reporter did not correctly report what the representative said.
I wonder if maybe the NRA is too big, and maybe that the NRA didn't know what the NRA - ILA had done?
It's a good question. It's also possible that the interview happened before the NRA-ILA press release, or that the reporter misstated this.
In general, I don't think there are so many national press releases from the ILA that all of our NRA press representatives couldn't easily keep up with them.