I was chasing squirrels myself so didn;t watch the Joey Bishop show....Moses claims he was never a part of such ....thus just some of the links that suggest it was infighting during elections at the NRA Executive Level....
Interesting stuff....real or not an insite to internal bickering.
I was 13 that year, and P.O.ed about GCA, as I'd finally gotten a little money together so I could order my own gun out of the back of American Rifleman, and then they blocked it for me. I was going to get a Webley .45 revolver...seems to me it was about $5.
I'd had stepfather trouble the year before, and wasn't about to let it happen again.