nstassel
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You're not actually suggesting supporting the second amendment is racist I hope. That would be extremely ironic.I'm not racist but... Same vibes tbh
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You're not actually suggesting supporting the second amendment is racist I hope. That would be extremely ironic.I'm not racist but... Same vibes tbh
And I might be in the minority here but I personally believe the Bruen case is a very,very important case.
Unpopular opinion, but I wouldn’t give a shit how expensive his suits or homes are, as long as he was effective at his job and earned his pay.
-NRA had an entire congress + Trump, yet got nowhere on National Reciprocity nor the HPA.-NRA had an entire congress + Bush Jr. (R) dominated period of itme and did nothing iwth it, out of the entire bush term we only got PLCAA. Really? REALLY? this is probably the biggest political squander in RKBA modern history.... esp after 9/11, gun control was donkey punched hard.
In the 1920s, the National Revolver Association, the arm of the NRA responsible for handgun training, proposed regulations later adopted by nine states, requiring a permit to carry a concealed weapon, five years additional prison time if the gun was used in a crime, a ban on gun sales to non-citizens, a one day waiting period between the purchase and receipt of a gun, and that records of gun sales be made available to police.
The NRA assisted Roosevelt in drafting the 1934 National Firearms Act and the 1938 Gun Control Act, the first federal gun control laws. These laws placed heavy taxes and regulation requirements on firearms that were associated with crime, such as machine guns, sawed-off shotguns and silencers. Gun sellers and owners were required to register with the federal government and felons were banned from owning weapons.
Karl T. Frederick, the president of the NRA, testified before Congress stating, “I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.”
On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. He shot the president with an Italian military surplus rifle purchased from a NRA mail-order advertisement. NRA Executive Vice-President Franklin Orth agreed at a congressional hearing that mail-order sales should be banned stating, “We do think that any sane American, who calls himself an American, can object to placing into this bill the instrument which killed the president of the United States.”
The summer riots of 1967 and assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 prompted Congress to reenact a version of the FDR-era gun control laws as the Gun Control Act of 1968. The act updated the law to include minimum age and serial number requirements, and extended the gun ban to include the mentally ill and drug addicts. In addition, it restricted the shipping of guns across state lines to collectors and federally licensed dealers and certain types of bullets could only be purchased with a show of ID. The NRA, however, blocked the most stringent part of the legislation, which mandated a national registry of all guns and a license for all gun carriers. In an interview in American Rifleman, Franklin Orth stated that despite portions of the law appearing “unduly restrictive, the measure as a whole appears to be one that the sportsmen of America can live with.”
IF he earned his pay, I would not give a shit if he bought the most expensive house on the planet- with that money he earned. You realize he expected this house to be provided by the NRA on top of his pay, and the reasoning was over security concerns after the Parkland shooting? But go ahead and explain to me how he earned a $6M perk on top of his pay.Unpopular opinion, but I wouldn’t give a shit how expensive his suits or homes are, as long as he was effective at his job and earned his pay.
Excellent post with clear evidence why many of us are critical of the NRA.Time magazine, I know, but a few excerpts laying out all the times the NRA has helped enact legislation that's still boning us today:
i don't like this fight with the nra being as public as it is. this is what the opposition wants to see, in fighting, division among the ranks. we're right where they want to see the gun lobby, weak and defeated. they're lovin' this.
dead serious. capitol hill use to really fear the nra. don't know if the nra still has that much power. we need that clout and i don't see anyone with the power nra had. this will pass. same as it did with g.o.a.l. in the 70's and mike yancino. i'm old enough to remember that bullshit.Not sure if serious the NRA has been weak for like 20 years now. This isn't a "new" thing. Also the "gun lobby" exists far beyond the NRA.
dead serious. capitol hill use to really fear the nra. don't know if the nra still has that much power. we need that clout and i don't see anyone with the power nra had. this will pass. same as it did with g.o.a.l. in the 70's and mike yancino. i'm old enough to remember that bullshit.
dead serious. capitol hill use to really fear the nra. don't know if the nra still has that much power. we need that clout and i don't see anyone with the power nra had. this will pass. same as it did with g.o.a.l. in the 70's and mike yancino. i'm old enough to remember that bullshit.
7 years is not bad for a time when internet wasn't a thing and not that many had credit cards.NRA didn't have teeth till 82. That's how long it took them to get their ass in gear when they started in 75
And most weren't looking for this kind of representation.7 years is not bad for a time when internet wasn't a thing and not that many had credit cards.
ok, 6 years to be a powerhouse after they focused on lobbying. i'd say that was a successful business plan. we now got nothing as big and loud as the nra. goa? where are they? i just let my membership lapse there too. i wasn't seeing anything to advance the case with them. we're f***ed now. don't matter if wayne and his cronies get booted now, the damage is done.NRA didn't have teeth till 82. That's how long it took them to get their ass in gear when they started in 75
Every time a gun owner bad mouths the NRA, the Democrats have an orgasm, and laugh at how stupid gun owners really are by cutting our own throats.
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this thread has so many sock puppets its like Shari Lewis's underwear drawer
So where would you like to take it so that it isn't public and how would you propose resolving anything once you did?i don't like this fight with the nra being as public as it is. this is what the opposition wants to see, in fighting, division among the ranks. we're right where they want to see the gun lobby, weak and defeated. they're lovin' this.
waiting to hear your thoughts on the situation. I got nothing, we're f***ed.So where would you like to take it so that it isn't public and how would you propose resolving anything once you did?
So Wayne never gets the boot. NRA can blame themselves for their current situation.What's the deal with the NRA having a 75 person BoD?
Accountability is a good thing, especially if there was an interest in reform. But the NES consensus is apparently that gun rights wouldn’t be affected by an absence of the NRA. I don’t know.waiting to hear your thoughts on the situation. I got nothing, we're f***ed.