Although foreign influence campaigns have used tactics like these there is no evidence to suggest any foreign influence in this case. The article suggests the

Although foreign influence campaigns have used tactics like these there is no evidence to suggest any foreign influence in this case. The article suggests the bad actors were identified to actual persons in the US. So, in this case, no Russian puppets here. I don't keep up with the RNA or many other special interests movements. The NRA, as far as I know, are a prominent gun rights lobbyist with extremely deep pockets. There is a lot of conjecture about the NRA, and that could just be that they are highly controversial, but there is nothing I know of suggesting the NRA is influenced by foreign agents, but then I also don't keep up with this.