I don't know why KABA (Angel Shamaya, et al) are vociferous in their denouncement of the NRA. It could be out of frustration. It could be out of unwanted meddling in their own efforts. It could be something else, but its clear, at least to me, that more could have been done.
It was said that the California 50 caliber ban was a done deal, that they couldn't do anything about it. It took the 2nd Amendment Sisters, FCSA and other concern citizen groups to go and kill it after all. It wasn't a done deal after all, as Mr. Payne said. :o
Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't want the NRA to up and stop all efforts at this time. They are after all, the 800lb gorilla in the bunch, and the NRA is welcome, and there are a lot of other fights to take before we are back to the time when our 2nd Amendment rights are back to the way the Founding Fathers have meant them to be.
(One thing that the NRA should have stopped is the hiding of CCW records. I think it was Mike Haas that posted on FreeRepublic about how the NRA protected the identities of the CCW applicants and that this is a good thing after all. I wonder what this law's effect is on Jim March's struggle to expose cronyism and corruption in the discretionary issuance of CCW licenses in California! I bet its not good.)