NRA Releases Shooting App for IOS

National Rifle Association has released an iPhone app called "NRA: Practice Range."

The gun lobby offers the 3D app as a way to obtain "one-touch access to the NRA network of news, laws, facts, knowledge, safety tips, educational materials and online resource." For ages 4 and up, the game allows players to practice shooting at coffin-shaped targets with red crosshairs at both the head and the heart.

And for just an additional 99 cents, players can upgrade to a MK11 sniper rifle.

As the Game loads the app flashes safety tips and facts across the screen, which will be more informative and more useful to the users. This was released for the education purpose and users can increase their knowledge.

Think Progress labels this move as "hypocritical," and notes its not the first move like it the NRA has made. In the wake of the Newtown tragedy, the NRA has blamed violence on gun-related media. However, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the NRA's "Hollywood Gun Exhibit" is still open and advertised. The Game exhibit shows off a variety of guns used in film by both the bad guy and the good guys.

The NRA has maintained that video games are harmful and the cause of mass violence. However, ThinkProgress notes that the group has yet to stop licensing images of their products for use in films and video games. The exhibit celebrates the weapons used by a variety of film villains such as the weapon Heath Ledger handled as the Joker in The Dark Knight Rises.