Are there archived snapshots (Wayback Machine or similar) of the NRA’s X account from Jan 24–25, 2026 documenting these posts?
Executive summary
Available reporting shows the National Rifle Association posted a response on X on Jan. 24, 2026 that was widely cited by news outlets (NBC Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times), but the set of archived links provided here does not include an archived snapshot of the NRA’s X account or that specific NRA post from Jan. 24–25, 2026 [1] [2]. Other X posts from Jan. 24 are archived in the dataset, but none are the NRA account itself, so a direct archived snapshot of the NRA’s X page is not present in the sources supplied [3] [4] [5].
1. What mainstream reporting documents: an NRA X response exists
Multiple news reports cite an NRA response on X criticizing comments by a federal prosecutor about the Minneapolis shooting, with NBC Los Angeles quoting the NRA’s language and describing the post as a reply on X, and the Los Angeles Times reporting that gun-rights groups including the NRA blasted the prosecutor on Jan. 24, 2026 [1] [2]. Those stories establish that journalists saw and reported an NRA post on X that day; they do not, however, function as an archival snapshot of the NRA account itself but do confirm the existence of the NRA’s public comment as a matter of record in the press [1] [2].
2. What the archival evidence in the provided dataset actually contains
The collection supplied contains multiple archive.is entries for X posts from Jan. 24, 2026—examples include an archive of a Jonah Goldberg X post archived 24 Jan 2026 21:10:42 UTC and other individual user X posts archived the same day [3] [4] [5] [6]. There is also a reddit snapshot referencing a message attributed to the NRA archived 25 Jan 2026 [7]. None of the listed archive URLs or snapshots in the dataset explicitly point to the official NRA X account page or to an archived NRA post from Jan. 24–25, 2026; the archive links are to other users or to secondary discussions that reference the NRA [3] [4] [5] [7].
3. Why an NRA X snapshot might be absent from these archives (and why that matters)
Social-media posts can be removed, replies can be deleted, and archiving coverage is uneven; news outlets quoted the NRA post, which indicates it was visible to reporters, but press coverage is not a substitute for a time-stamped archived snapshot of the NRA account itself [1] [2]. The dataset provided includes examples of what archive captures looked like for other X users on Jan. 24 but lacks a direct capture of the NRA page—this could reflect limited crawl coverage by particular archiving services, deletion or account changes after the post, or simply that the specific archive URLs were not included in this report [3] [4] [5]. The supplied sources do not allow confirmation of whether the NRA post was later removed or whether independent archiving services (Wayback Machine, archive.today, etc.) captured the NRA account during the Jan. 24–25 window; the documents here do not show a Wayback or archive.today snapshot of the NRA X account for those dates [3] [7].
4. Bottom line and pragmatic next steps for verification
Based on the materials provided, there is press evidence that the NRA posted on X on Jan. 24, 2026 and that the post was reported by outlets like NBC Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Times, but there is no archived snapshot of the NRA’s X account or that specific post in the supplied archive links [1] [2] [3]. To obtain a definitive archival record, one must search public web-archiving services (Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, archive.today/archive.is, and X-focused capture tools) for the NRA’s X handle during Jan. 24–25, 2026; that step cannot be completed from the current dataset, and therefore cannot be affirmed or denied based solely on the provided sources [3] [4] [7]. The reporting suggests the post existed; the archival trail for the NRA account itself is absent from these sources and remains to be located through targeted archive searches.