All Southern men and women should know about the founding of the NRA and why it remains an adjunct to government control of our lives as it was founded to do. Among anti-freedom "clubs" only the Union League Clubs of Philadelphia, New York, and Chicago are older. All were founded in order to enhance the ability of the US government to kill Americans who would be free. I am also old enough to remember when the NRA had a loyalty oath and required the endorsement of a member for a new membership application to be processed.Then, moving on to the 20th century, the NRA endorsed the first national gun control law, the prohibition upon shipping handguns via the US mail, throwing that job into the much more expensive Railway Express. The NRA went on to write the National Firearms Act of 1934, the Gun Control Act of 1968, and the Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986; all to restrict our rights access and to help the US government control us.
The upshot of this is that the NRA will continue its long history of curbing our rights in aid of the US government via endorsements of thugs like Harry Reid.
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The NRA was go along and get along on banning hi cap mags under the Brady Bill.
My guess is they will endorse no one in NV but I think we all need to realize - they are not our friends.
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You know the spiel.
The NRA is playing both sides to make gains in Dem land. R is for rifle not for Republican, yada, yada, yada.
"...all to restrict our rights access and to help the US government control us."
This statement is vile, and unless you intend to begin your shooting war against anyone who infringes your rights, you have no place making such a comment.
They need gunowners and shooters more than we need them;
they can keep whoring themselves out to lefties and even start calling themselves TBB (`The Brady Bunch’).
We will still win. We win every day that we remain armed.
An organization is as good as its leaders. I don’t care what the NRA did 76 years ago. I don’t even care what the NRA 42 years ago.
I care what they have done lately. Heller v. DC was the NRA. McDonald v Chicago was the NRA, not Alan Gura who cluelessly tried to argue it on P&I terms.
You have the NRA’s support of Harry Reid to thank that, after total Democrat rule for the past 2 years, no new gun regulations went into effect - and concealed carry in national parks was passed. Harry Reid is a despicable politician on most issues. But his NRA endorsement means a lot to his electorate in a state full of hunters like Nevada. So, his votes are largely in line with him.
Spoken more frankly, I can’t talk common sense into people who choose to ignore any political strategy. For them, it’s “their way or the highway,” and sit baffled when nothing goes their way. Politics is about “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours,” and the NRA is one of the most savvy lobbies there is out there. Unfortunately, it makes the people who despise politics angry.
Or, ignore what I said, and waste your dollars on the GOA so they can churn out more anti-NRA literature and do jack s**t for your gun rights.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Nonsense. The NRA ILA attorneys have been aggressive the last few years. A lot of pro 2nd Amendment court rulings are largely due to the NRA.
... the sooner we could get about the business of killing them in earnest and restoring that Republic.
Killing them in earnest? Really?
The NRA, I said, was like a make-up artist who faithfully retouched the painted mask of the tyrannical monster to lull the peasants out of his own selfish desire to be the last one eaten.
OK... so according to this nutjob,he exploded in a restaurant saying things like we would be better off without the NRA, and the real purpose of the NRA is to help disguise tyrants to lull in the peasants.
This anti-NRA conspiracy moonbat kook nonsense is getting ridiculous.
I can't say I have agreed with all the NRA stances in the past, but overall they have done a good job. They have especially done a good job in the last three years. If another group can do better, then bring it... I would love to see it, the more groups standing up for our 2nd Amendment rights the better. The NRA is not the enemy, not even close.