Moments ago, The New York Times reported that the National Rifle Association (NRA) has shut down production of NRATV. The NRA also cut ties with Ackerman McQueen, ending a decades-long relationship with the firm that operated NRATV. According to The New York Times, the flashpoint for the schism within the NRA, leading the NRA to sever ties with Ackerman McQueen and shut down NRATV, started with an NRATV program editing a Thomas the Tank Engine video, mocking ethnic diversity on the children's program by portraying the show’s talking trains in Ku Klux Klan hoods.