Posted on 06/20/2017 11:20:21 AM PDT by rellimpank
In the winter of 2008, shortly after the election of Barack Obama, my fiancee and I stopped into a local gun shop in Austin to buy ammunition for target practice, a hobby we enjoyed once or twice a month. Though we hadn't asked, the clerk behind the counter told us that all the AR- and AK-style rifles were back-ordered. We could get on the waitlist, he offered, but the delay might be a couple of months — "if it's still even legal to buy one then."
Eight years later, gun rights in America appear not only to have survived the Obama administration but to have thrived. Gun sales broke records almost every year of the past eight. As president, Obama signed legislation allowing guns onto Amtrak trains and into national parks, where they were previously prohibited, and his executive orders after the Sandy Hook massacre had no perceptible effect on most gun owners. Then we elected Donald Trump — a long-shot candidate who earned an endorsement from the National Rifle Association before he had even consolidated the support of his own political party. In April, Trump became the first sitting U.S. president since Ronald Reagan to address the NRA's annual meeting. He told the cheering crowd that he was their "true friend and champion in the White House" and proclaimed that "the eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms" was over.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Did the Austinite express any outrage at all about his god Obama running guns to narcoterrorists in Mehi Co. And then doing nothing about the resulting carnage in Mexico and Estados Unidos?
Background checks aten’t for your safety when terrorists in Mexico and Libya were armed by Obama.
Fake.
Oh c’mon, Matt. You should have brought up all of the wonderful effects that have resulted from Chicago’s gun laws. That would have really bolstered your position. Oh, wait... /s
Barry and Joe did their best to ban your modern sporting rifles, but gosh-darnit, those evil NRA gun nuts blocked them. /s
I know when I’m looking for thoughtful commentary about my Second Amendment rights I *always* look to the pages of the Chicago Tribune because I know I can count on their objective presentation of the facts in this matter.
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I agree. Fake news.
From the Washington Com-post via the Chicago Tribune...
So a Hurl Alert is in order...
More anti-gun screed, poorly disguised and authored by a poseur who likes target shooting as a hobby...
Unlikely to fool anyone with even the most basic knowledge of the 2nd Amendment and it’s intent...
Of course there is a barf alert...its the Shitcago tribune. Endorsed Obama twice and said Trump was unfit so endorsed Gary Johnson in 2016.
“I know when I’m looking for thoughtful commentary about my Second Amendment rights I *always* look to the pages of the Chicago Tribune because I know I can count on their objective presentation of the facts in this matter.”
True, but you can pick any major newspaper and get the same “reasoned” writing about any subject that relates to the Bill of Rights. Ditto for your TV.
Meanwhile, many new gun owners seem content (or compelled) to stand apart from the NRA and establish their own organizations. These include the National African American Gun Association;
NAAGA? That has to be made up...
Anyone would look at that and say “Gee. Maybe we should come up with a better name?”
Our gun rights still exist and are being reestablished because of the NRA and other organizations like them.
If you want a look at reality listen to Hillary say we need gun laws like Australia and England which were outright confiscation of many types of firearms.
Take a look at who and what is coming at us, Warren and Harris in the senate. Both are extreme anti 2A zealots.
Now lie to me again and tell me we don't need the NRA.
Sounds like a seminar caller to Rush.
Any bets on whether this guy even owns a gun? An old buddy from teen years who is a UF professor now was rabidly against guns until his house got broken into while his wife was asleep and he wasn’t home. He bought a gun and now he has nothing to say about “gun violence” and “universal background checks” or “gunshow loopholes.” He won’t talk about the subject at all. I would have not known he had a gun if his wife had not showed it to me. He got a 1911 Colt and made her learn to shoot it. She is not large and I wondered if it were too much gun. She said it was at first but she got used to it. She practices regularly with it and apparently so does he.
An article like this is published in some major MSM pub about once a year.
How about the NRA put a little of that money in fighting Bloomberg’s state by state “universal background check” ballot initiatives?
As for any claim that Trump's election is bad for NRA members, that is just BS. Trump has already replaced Scalia and will perhaps replace Kennedy, Ginsburg, and any other justices that leave the Court. This is truly a grand victory and the contrast with what we would have with a Hillary Presidency is so monumentally great that I fail to find the right words to describe it.
If the author of the article wishes to move to a gun-control Utopia, he need only make his way to the People's Republik of Kalifornia. Here we have every gun law ever dreamed up by the anti-gunners. I haven't yet seen the gigantic strides in crime reduction that such infringements are supposed to cause. Perhaps another decade or two will reveal them.
Come and take them.
Please.
Although some of these fund-raising schemes are aggravating at times, you might want to consider the value to the organization.
I send money far more often to the Second Amendment Foundation than I do to the NRA. One reason I can justify this is because I use an NRA credit card for practically every purchase I make. ( I preferred the original card which pictured a gun instead of an eagle.)
I also carry a Costco credit card. Every quarter, I think it is, I receive a credit voucher for Costco purchases in the amount of two percent of my purchases. I assume that the NRA receives an equivalent amount through my NRA credit card purchases. I actually attempted to find out the percentage once but nobody would tell me. I assume that was because the amount was so high.
If my purchases in a given year add up to $12,000 and the benefit to NRA is two percent, that would be a contribution from me of $240 that year. If every NRA member provided even half that much, and using 5 million for the number of members, that would be 600 MILLION dollars.
I think my NRA credit card is a good thing and I encourage you to get one.
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