I can tell you right now what the NRA has done in the last couple of weeks.
Absolutely, they have been busy,busy,busy fixing things that were not broken until they are ruined beyond repair--a policy the NRA has had for over half a century.
America's oldest gun control organization by any other name would stink as much.
Possibly why 76 million American gunowners and 15 million American Hunters DO NOT BELONG to the NRA.
It might even be more accurate to say the VAST OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of American Gunowners DO NOT AGREE with the NRA.
A few excerpts from then and now:
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.
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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
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From: Cox, Christopher
Date: Apr 27, 2007 4:09 PM Subject: NRA Statement & Fact Sheet
*NRA STATEMENT ON LEGISLATIVE EFFORTS ON CAPITOL HILL*
Recent reports in the Washington Post, Newsweek and other media outlets are fanning Internet rumors regarding the NRA's position concerning legislation currently being discussed in Congress in the aftermath of the horrific crimes that occurred at Virginia Tech.
The NRA has a long history of supporting measures to keep guns out of the hands of violent criminals and those who have been adjudicated by a court as mentally incompetent, and we will continue to do so.
Including necessary records on prohibited persons into the NICS is a position we have long supported.
Castle doctrine.
You lose.