I read recently that the NRA helped to write GCA68. When it became common knowledge that the membership wasn’t in favor of it, they went on the record as opposing the bill.
I can’t find the article right now but when I consider their attitude toward the recent NCIS Improvement Act and their penchant for compromising before they even get to the bargaining table I certainly have to believe there’s more than a little truth to the story. I’ve been a member for a number of years but no longer. The really need a “Q” somewhere in their name-— standing for “Quisling.”
You have to understand, the NRA is about protecting the interests of the major firearms manufactuers in the US period. The NRA has supported many anti-second amendment issues to the benefit of the US manufacturers, the 68 GCA and the 922 Commerce ruling to restrict importation of “assult weapons” and parts are two examples, with NICS being another. The NRA truly fears a pure ruling on the 2nd Amendment, for they will be out of business as lobbiests in DC. The NRA reprents a 60% solution, or the center of the bell curve approach to gun control and the 2nd amendment.
Where is the NRA on the Wyoming and Idaho or the other States passing laws to truly force the 2nd Amendment issue with the Federal gov? Quiet and offering zero support just as they did for the Heller case at SCOTUS. In fact, I personally listened to several NRA staff lawyers completely bash and berate the Heller legal team, the premise, approach and personally make derogitory remarks about the plantiffs on the Heller case 3 weeks prior to SCOTUS accepting the case now known as Heller vs. DC.
Funny the case was won to the benefit of all gun owners and for all patriots in the US without the help of the NRA or NSSF. Just as the Wyoming and other States will previal with the Firearms Freedom Acts sans the NRA.
The message here is the NRA does some good, but understand they only do good when it benefits the NSSF/SAAMI voting members and sometimes it is at the expense of all of us. It really is not about the 2nd Amendment for the NRA it is about the large manufacutures of ammunition and weapons in the US, nothing more or less.