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To: neverdem

The NRA helped author the GCA 1968. They’re always there to ‘compromise’. Sort of like a true RINO.


6 posted on 10/17/2007 4:10:51 PM PDT by Old 300
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To: Old 300

***The NRA helped author the GCA 1968. They’re always there to ‘compromise’. Sort of like a true RINO.***

Actually the 1968 GCA was Thomas Dodd’s baby, based on the 1938 Nazi weapons act.

The NRA prevented a registration/confiscation bill by modifying the 1968 GCA to it’s less dangerous form of total registration of all guns. There were less than one million people in the organization then and they did NOT have a lobbying wing.

What we got, the 1968 GCA was much less severe than what Kennedy and Dodd wanted and the ONLY reason it passed is that Congress voted to give money to each police department for “crime control”. Sort of like when Clinton got the assault weapons ban by bribing the congressmen with pork for 100,000 police on the streets. $$$$Money talks$$$$

Without the NRA we would not have any firearms at all except single shots and they would have to be kept at a police station.

If you were alive at that time you would know just how the news media managed to create a wave of hysteria after the shooting of Bobby Kenney. It was an avalanche even the NRA could not stop, they did manage to divert it into a less offensive, but still onerous, bill.


10 posted on 10/17/2007 4:31:14 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Old 300

The NRA wasn’t even a lobbying group in 1968 so your information is wrong.

Blaming the NRA for not being a lobbying group back then is the same as someone blaming the GOA for not existing during that period.


27 posted on 10/17/2007 6:56:44 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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