I'm a member of the NRA. I'm conservative. I also realize that the president doesn't write legislation. Vote in conservative members of the house and senate to protect our 2nd amendment rights. Don't use that as criterea for POTUS.
I'm a true conservative who has served on active duty to protect and defend ALL of our Constitutional rights, including, and MOST especially, our 2nd Amendment rights.
As all of the above, and a Benefactor Life Member of the NRA (I've put LOTS of money where my mouth is), I will apply the SAME criteria you mention above for ALL candidates for higher office, NOT just, as you suggest, only members of the "house and senate".
I'd rather have a man who is proud to mention that he is a supporter and defender of the 2nd, one that will gladly say that he owns firearms and hunts, say, someone like Vice President Cheney, than a deceitful, duplicitous little gun-grabbing inner-city maggot like RINO-rudy.
His previous and recent comments, and actions as the liberal RINO mayor of The Peoples Republic of NYC, reveal that, not only does he NOT understand the true meaning of the 2nd Amendment (NOT even CLOSE), but he doesn't CARE about one of our most fundamental rights which has been enumerated in our Bill of RIGHTS by FAR greater men than he will EVER be.
Have you ever heard of a concept call a VETO? Changes the entire dynamic for a bill to get passed - from a simple majority to a two-thirds supermajority. So it damn well does matter that we don't have a gun-grabber in the White House.