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I am more than aware of the history of the bill as I followed it from inception, the changes you are referring to, that "loosened" up the restrictions, only came AFTER a lot of us threw a fit about restrictions even being considered against the Vets, it was added after a few drafts just to get the NRA's endorsement. Compromising on our Second Amendment Rights will in the end remove our Right!

The bill was and still is a bad bill (Read the Text) and the NRA should have NEVER supported it, as it was just a knee jerk reaction. I like the way the website you attached mainly uses NRA Documents and fact sheets as resource material... come on!

If the NRA had been doing their job in Supporting and Protecting the Second Amendment Rights as chartered instead of "compromising"... a lot of us would have never dropped our memberships.

Sounds like you just have a problem with the GOA... You on the NRA board or something? The NRA deserves any "bashing" it receives from the GOA... I've found that the GOA is very protective of the Second Amendment, they don't "compromise", they jump in the battles immediately and give timely alerts to members UNLIKE the NRA. But that will change as a lot of us rejoin the NRA and boot out some of the dead weight!

"it was added after a few drafts just to get the NRA's endorsement."

So now you are admitting that what you said previously about the bill was untrue. The bill did not put more vets with PTSD on the banned firearms list, but took approximately 80,000 people off of it. The above statement is the reason to support the NRA. Only after the bill was revised to get the garbage out of it and get good stuff in it (like the vets being taken off the banned list) did the NRA endorse it. Notice how no one was looking for the GOA's endorsement? It was a good bill. Unless you think people with histories of serious mental impairment like the Korean kid who massacared those people at Virginia Tech should own a firearm.

I wish I were on the board of the NRA. I would probably be making a lot more money than I do now. No, I'm a member and I think there are a lot of good 2nd Amendment organizations out there. The GOA is not one of them. They do not add anything substantive to the debate. They do not help in any way legislatively to get things done for our side. All I've ever seen them do is rant and rave against the NRA.