The problem with this is that minorities are now shunning "snitches". It's disgusting that these communities allow criminals to operate freely in their neighborhoods just to "stick it to the man". They end up "sticking" themselves.
You have to enter a situation like that with the *assumption* of a severe lack of trust of the authorities, both imagined and real.
To start with, in areas with leftist rule in government, you will find tremendous disdain for minorities, masked as empathy (”I feel your pain”). Often there is a complete lack of real support, while at the same time great hand wringing and deploring of the circumstances for those same people.
So it is not a tremendous shock when minorities look at government as the enemy.
But it also means that people who are *all* substance, like in this case the NRA, have to be very prepared to prove that they mean it, and are not like the leftist crap slingers.
When such a minority community *is* convinced that somebody is treating them fairly, and actually doing something, not just yammering and promising things, they embrace them fully.
The NRA would have to be doubly careful, because with the first sign of success, the leftist politicians would be right there, hoping for advantage from parasiting and neutralizing the program. This is because, in truth, the leftists do not want minorities to improve their lives, because then they would be less dependent.