The NRA is attempting to recruit anti-gun-control allies from the unlikeliest of places — the Connecticut community devastated by December's mass school shooting.
Residents of Newtown, where a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School, are furious over recent robocalls from the National Rifle Association urging them to pressure their state legislators to vote against proposed stricter gun laws.
"It's ridiculous and insensitive," Newtown resident Dan O'Donnell fumed to a local television station.
"I can't believe an organization would be so focused on the rights of gun owners with no consideration for the losses this town suffered."
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NRA Executive President Wayne LaPierre.
One resident said the calls, which started about a week ago, often come at dinnertime when children — some who went to school with the victims — are at the table.
"I was just kind of more shocked that type of call would come to Newtown three months from one of the most horrendous tragedies," Newtown resident Tom Maurath told NBC News. "To call the town of Newtown didn't seem like the right thing to do."
Some residents said they also received postcards from the NRA supporting gun owners' rights.
Newtown is still reeling from the Dec. 14 holiday-season massacre carried out by Adam Lanza, 20, who was armed to the teeth with assault rifles and ammo.
Lanza shot himself in the head, but not before he killed his own mother at their Newtown home, drove five miles to the elementary school and sprayed first-graders and educators with bullets.
The carnage set off an intense debate across the country about gun control and the Second Amendment, with the NRA fighting against a proposed assault-weapons ban.
Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the NRA, made the rounds of weekend talk shows, where he railed against Mayor Bloomberg for using his own money to fund gun-control ads.
"He can't spend enough of his $27 billion to try to impose his will on the American people," LaPierre said on "NBC's Meet the Press."
Bloomberg said he was disgusted by the robocalls.
"Sometimes, people don't use good judgment," the mayor said. "I guess the word 'shameless' sort of comes up. Of all the places you shouldn't be doing robocalls
"I guess most people would say that's not a good place to do it. They ought to be ashamed."
LaPierre could not be reached for comment,
leonard.greene@nypost.com
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