The History Of Gun Control, Part 2 (How The 1968 Gun Control Act Transformed The NRA Alert)

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 06/14/2007 | Sandy Froman

[ozzymandus]

Did you go crying to the mods?

[from occupied ga]

You just don’t know when to quit do you flame boy.

[Copernicus]

Former NRA President Froman seems to have overlooked the activities of Former NRA President Karl T. Frederick in 1934.

Congressional hearings over the National Firearms Act of 1934 (H.R.9066) took place April 16 & 18 and May 14, 15, & 16 of 1934. Then-NRA President Karl T. Frederick testified on behalf of the National Rifle Association (NRA). His testimony is below and includes the text in full plus scanned images of each page.

MR. FREDERICK: ... "I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I seldom carry one. ... I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses"

Link:

http://www.keepandbeararms.com/NRA/NFA.asp

Best regards,

[MileHi]

I have been NRA for 25 years or so, but I have to say that Exile puts me off. And what I read about behind the scene dealings about the DC case to undermine it are disturbing. That case came out very well for us.

S2.5 may want to defend that, though.

[Shooter 2.5]

Thanks for the support but I do have ask if you could name some of this legislation the group has stopped. If you could name one, that would be one more than the GOA.

[El Gato]

When there is a loss, it is pretty much permanent. If we don’t have the votes to defeat a bad gun control law, it is better to compromise to water it down. We need to defeat the gun control people at the ballot box (we need at least a 2/3 majority) if we ever want to reverse the slide. I have not seen that since 1968 and am beginning to wonder if I ever will.

The Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986 repealed some of the worst of the '68 GCA. It's only bad feature was the last minute amendment that resulted in the ban on newly manufactured machine guns for mere peons, that is ordinary Americans.

Gun control has been and can be reversed. In the legislature and in the Courts. After all, every bit of it is an infrimgement on the individual right to keep and bear arms. The Supreme Court could end it all in a single session.

However if they go the other way, and overturn the recent DC circuit ruling that the RKBA is an individual right. Or go the way of the Bush administration, declare it to be an indivdual right, but rule that no existing gun control laws infringe on that right. It's all over the but the shooting, and there most likely will be shooting. With the latest pi$$ing on the shoes of the military by the 'rats and the Bush administration (General Pace not being reappointed among other things) it's doubtful the US military will be any mood to get shot at by those ordinary Americans, but will instead side with them.

[from occupied ga]

My problem with the NRA is that they are too eager to "work with " the anti-gunners and don't understand the meaning of the word "compromise" The NRA "compromises" like the victim of a thief when the thief demands $1000 and the victim talks him down to $900. The victim then congratulates himself on a great victory when in reality he only suffered a slightly lesser defeat.

A true compromise would be giving the anti-gunners what they got in this case for free but getting something like a repeal of the 1986 machine gun ban in return. The progun side got NOTHING and the NRA went along wih it - didn't even fight all that hard.

[MileHi]

Too often, that seems to be the case.

[blackie]

Read this:

http://oregonfirearms.org/alertspage/05.22.07alert.html

There has been more, check ther website out.