Posted on 01/25/2021 9:22:09 PM PST by madison10
The NRA couldn’t have melted down at a worse time - internal strife, lawsuits and LaPierre needs a new suit for every occasion. Their PAC For Profit turned out to be useless while draining millions of donation dollars.
They became to the average gun owner what Trump’s inherited helpers did for him (no help at all).
Exactly.
Perception matters.
I agree, but the three groups are made of very different people.
I am a shooter/hunter. I can hit a target at 600 yards (longest I can practice at) and do so very well. Typically get my deer.
For the tactical guys, that is stupid and lazy. One makes a point of telling me “you waste to much time on shooting skills! Get closer and saturate the target you F$$king fudd!”
No on the other side of the coin, a lot of shooters resent the tac cool kids who show up with an AR, a few hundred rounds of ammo, and blast away. If you are used to shooting 10 rounds at most while waiting for the perfect wind, temp, and stars, the tac kids are annoying. So you go over and tell them to “Stop being disrespectful” and “Go away till you earn you place here!” That kid was being safe, having fun, and doing nothing wrong other than annoying an old guy who thinks the rest of the club exists to support his bench rest habit.
Having been caught between both groups (most pure hunters don’t go to the rang for some reason), it is uncomfortable at best.
I don’t disagree with your thought at all there socially.
What we need to keep in mind is that each of you has the
most important thing related to guns in common.
You all own them.
I am saying support every gun owner even if he doesn’t quite
get your chosen sector of the gun shooting spectrum.
We can’t let them splinter us when it comes to gun control.
As second amendment people, we are ONE people. Defend one,
defend all.
I think you’re too close to home to quibble there.
It is sad how that worked out, but I think we have to support
the group anyway.
Do you differ on that?
My current screen name isn't for carpentry. For decades it was NewRome Tacitus and you did great service helping keep border security a top priority. Thank you.
Thanks. I appreciate the compliment.
No, I wasn’t trying to give you a hard time. It’s a real
dilemma for me, because there are times when I’m not too
happy with the NRA.
I was testing the waters to see what others were thinking
about it right now.
I get to a government-run range in Ashland City, TN every chance I can get. It’s open for anyone at all which sees some crazy stuff. Once there was a group of tiny Cambodian businessmen who had to try each of their American host’s firearms. All the other shooters stopped to watch these elves firing a .50 cal and tumbling backwards from recoil. They LOVED it and kept running up to do it again.
Last time I was there some Feds came out and fired off a bunch of full-autos which rattled the hell out of most people’s day. Do they not have their own ranges paid for with our money? So that was unnecessary and obnoxious. Sending us a message?
Large swaths of the existing gun owning population simply will not comply but here is the problem: The gov’t may choose to enforce this by forcing dealers with ranges to make gun ownwers present their registration just to be able to rent range time or to buy ammo so if few register their stuff then it will only take a few instances of folks unawares to get tossed in the slammer for showing up at ranges with newly minted NFA hardware they never registered for most folks to simply stop using their stuff and let it sit in safes forever. In othwr words, it could collapse the industry.
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