NRA Country's website has dropped its featured country musicians amid debates of the organization's role in controlling gun legislation following the recent shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead.
Since 2010, the National Rifle Association has tried to develop ties with the country music industry and developed NRA Country as a division to foster partnerships with Nashville's biggest stars who agreed to cross-promotional deals with the organization, The Guardian noted.
However, on Friday at least three dozen recording artists were erased from NRA Country's revamped website without receiving prior notification, Rolling Stone magazine reported.
This comes a month after the Parkland's mass shooting, which has prompted survivors to call for stricter gun control while criticizing the NRA.
NRA Country once featured an extensive list of country artists including the likes of Blake Shelton and Florida Georgia Line but over the years the organization along with the artists associated with it have come under fire after a spate of mass shootings shook the nation, Spin said.
The organization had been working to redesign the NRA Country website and modernize it in accordance to the rest of its web presence. Last week the new site was unveiled sans its featured artists.
David Macias, president of Thirty Tigers, a distribution, marketing and artist management company that works with several NRA Country artists, said he could only speculate as to what prompted the NRA's decision to scrap its artists.
"I can only guess that after the Parkland shooting, there were a lot more acts that felt queasy about having their name directly associated with the NRA," he said per Rolling Stone. "So, rather than be left with a list of artists that only has Charlie Daniels on it, they decided to change it so that you couldn't tell which acts were associated."
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