[Copernicus]

I'm not comfortable with it.

Just a reminder: The NRA is the country's oldest gun control advocacy organization:

http://www.duke.edu/~mms16/Singeron_NRA_w_Chart.pdf.

The NRA gradually began to play an active role in efforts by the federal government to regulate firearms.

In the 1930s Congress passed three main gun control acts. The Uniform Firearms Act of 1930 forbade the delivery of pistols to "convicts, drug addicts, habitual drunkards, incompetents, and minors under the age of 18."

Karl T. Frederick, then president of the NRA, served as a special consultant in the framing of this act.

The NRA also supported the National Firearms Act of 1934, which taxed and required registration of such firearms as machine guns, sawed-off rifles, and sawed-off shotguns, although some controversy existed surrounding Congress's definition of a machine gun.

Finally, the NRA supported the Federal Firearms Act of 1938, which imposed regulations on interstate and foreign commerce in firearms and pistol ammunition and restricted the use of sawed-off shotguns and machine guns.

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

And, of course, testimony from someone who has felt the full force and fury of gun control:

May you stand before God and man as my two precious grandchildren's killer if you pass any more gun legislation that will make me a felon should I own a handgun or any other gun for that matter.

Sincerely,

Mary Carpenter

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7CCB40F421ED4819

http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/2nd_Amend/deaths_in_merced.htm

http://www.grnc.org/mary_carpenter_letter.htm

Best regards,

[Shooter 2.5]

And most of those guys are probably dead. Are you going to go stomp on their graves?

The NRA does more in one month than a particular group has done since their existence and if it had ten times the members, we wouldn’t have gun control.

If we didn’t have gun control, the NRA could go back to it’s gun ranges and still have a nice organization. If the GOA didn’t have gun control, they would cease to exist. Maybe that’s the GOA never does anything.

[paul51]

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"

great choice to lead the cause /sarc

[Ron H.]

Thanks for the info on the issue. Naturally being a former combat vet diagnosed with PTSD with an unusally strong belief in gun ownership I have particular interest in the proffered bill and know how the anti-gun idiots in our government will exploit any little weakness in the pending legislation.

Oh, and I'm no real fan of the self-serving and double dealing NRA.