Seminole gun range's NRA membership rule draws fire (barfer)

orlandosentinel.com ^

[Red in Blue PA]

Former Cocoa police Chief Eric Liff believes in gun-owner rights, but he resigned from the Seminole County Gun & Archery Association recently because it required him to join the NRA in order to regularly use its shooting range.

Liff said the rule seems particularly wrong because the range sits on 62 acres in Geneva that the association leases from Seminole County for just $10 a month.

He and many other law-enforcement officials don't agree with some National Rifle Association policies, notably the group's support of armor-piercing bullets, dubbed "cop killers."

Liff said he's also concerned that the powerful NRA more often speaks for gun makers, not owners, in Washington. He said he wants the Seminole range to drop its membership requirement.

"I object very strongly to them dictating political policy," said Liff, a Republican. "It's improper."

[rickomatic]

Cops are experts neither on firearms, or the law, for that matter.

[DoctorBulldog]

I reiterate: POS legislation.

It only partially repealed the 1968 law.

Cheers!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

****POS Legislation***

You would rather have the full weight of the 1968 GCL still on you, when you could not buy ANY modern firearm across state lines, no ammo, no imports of bolt action army surplus rifles and handguns?

True we did not get all back but we got more back than the Dems wanted. That is why they tried to kill it.

[DoctorBulldog]

I would rather the ENTIRE unconstitutional 1968 gun control legislation have been repealed.

The 1986 law DID NOT do that.

There is no compromise when it comes to my right Rights.

Also, the Hughes Amendment FAILED the electronic votes on the House Floor, yet was inserted anyway.

The NRA knew that, yet they kept pushing the Senate and Reagan into passing and signing it into law.

What? You think I wasn’t paying attention to all of this back in 1986? I had cable and watched C-Span all the time. I watched ALL of the proceedings concerning that bill. And, I read ALL the newspapers I could get my hands on during that time. The NRA was pushing it, big time! Yet, they “compromised.”

I don’t compromise.

The House, the Senate, and Reagan compromised. They DID NOT have to compromise. They could have easily repealed the ENTIRE 1968 law. But, yet, they refused to do so and decided to write new legislation which then opened the doors to the Hughes Amendment and to Charlie Rangel’s criminal conduct in inserting an amendment AFTER it had already been voted down.

That’s why I dropped my NRA membership. And, that’s why I say the 1986 gun law is a POS.

So, you and all the others can just go ahead and keep justifying to yourselves how great that 1986 law was and all just because it gave you a few orts to eat, along with a poison pill, when you could have just as easily enjoyed a full course meal with the FULL REPEAL of the 1968 gun control law! I don’t care.

Enjoy your orts and poison pill.

Cheers!