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Absolutely. What people lose when they focus on the NRA is that the NRA is a lobbying organization consisting of only five million people, (contrast a behemoth such as AARP, eight to nine times that size), and the gun prohibitionists are losing by a lot more than five million votes. It isn't who is a member of the NRA that counts, it's who they - we - influence, and the libs are in ferocious denial that that's a lot of people who don't want the heavy hand of the state on their lives.

The fact is, we got burned so badly in 1994 and shortly thereafter, when those dozen or so "assault weapons" ratcheted up to over 200, that convincing anyone who is aware of that past that the libs only want a "little" more regulation is impossible. There isn't any good faith negotiation and everybody knows it.

And the NRA got burned organizationally as well, because the existing administration was convinced that what the gun control side wanted through the AWB was actually reasonable, and tried to sell that to their membership, and ended up out the door when it turned out that they got taken by gun control liars. As you recall, that's when the struggle between the Neal Knox and the Wayne LaPierre wings repopulated the NRA leadership. There wasn't anyone left who hadn't felt the burn.

I'm suggesting that organizationally the NRA learned its lesson and is far less prone to even consider negotiating with liars and cheats, and that the population of gun owners who are not members has grown and become more suspicious, and rightfully so, of legal efforts to infringe on their rights. Hillary is trying to fight a 20-year-old war with 20-year-old tactics. And she's losing.

“There isn’t any good faith negotiation and everybody knows it.”

That point is what needs to be hammered home again and again.

What's AWB?

I am a life member of AAAAA, and can't do acronyms...