Give him points for consistency. When National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre seizes on a talking point, he doesn't let it go, no matter how ridiculous it seems to be.

In September, LaPierre told the Conservative Political Action Conference-Florida that there is a “massive Obama conspiracy” in which the president plans to “lull gun owners to sleep” by not passing new restrictions on guns, then repeal the Second Amendment. His claim was widely mocked as “crazy” or “paranoid” by critics who noted that LaPierre's “conspiracy” was based on no evidence and was frankly bizarre.

But LaPierre would not be deterred, telling Newsmax TV last month that Obama was planning to “break the back” of gun rights if re-elected. Later in October, he added the media to the conspiracy.

Now LaPierre has taken to the pages of The Washington Times to offer the same bizarre claim:

The Obama administration [...] hatched a political conspiracy to deceive Americans and hide its true agenda to dismantle the Second Amendment and our freedom. By delaying its anti-gun legislative agenda, it's tried to dupe gun owners into believing our fundamental freedom is safe.

The political calculation of the White House is clear: Deceive the voters and get re-elected at all costs and then, with no more elections to worry about, get busy dismantling the Second Amendment and destroying American freedom forever.

I have bad news for President Obama and his advisers. Gun owners aren't fools - and are not fooled.

NRA members and gun owners see through this Obama conspiracy and know the president has been setting the stage to gut the Second Amendment, quietly and behind the scenes.

Later in the op-ed, LaPierre pushes the baseless conspiracy that the ATF's failed Operation Fast and Furious was intended “to bolster its claims that straw purchasers in the United States were the cause of Mexican drug cartel violence.” He also promotes the falsehood that the Obama administration supported “a United Nations treaty that could severely restrict or effectively ban civilian ownership of firearms worldwide.”

LaPierre concludes that "[a] second Obama term will mark the end of the Second Amendment, as we know it. That is a fact." But the real truth is that he's willing to say anything to raise money and consolidate his organization's power.