The NRA is badass in every sense of the word.

WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association stepped up its anti-Obama rhetoric on Thursday, declaring in a fundraising email that President Barack Obama had allegedly “pledged to raise $20 million to ram his gun ban agenda through Congress.”

The claim was part of a fiery appeal by NRA chief lobbyist Chris Cox sent to the group’s approximately 4 million members. Cox wrote that Obama and “anti-gun politicians are on an all-out crusade” to “ban your guns and abolish every last sacred right you have under the Second Amendment … until they reduce your freedom to ashes.”

According to Cox, Obama’s “rich, gun-hating friends in Hollywood, along with anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg, will shower him with the money he needs to strip you of your gun rights.”