... The NRA was on board with regulating bump fire stocks in theory ...
There was a time, not so long ago, that the NRA would oppose every regulation, rule or law on guns. The theory was that the left was incremental and welcomed every regulation, no matter how small; The NRA position that even regulating the box that ammo came in needed to be opposed.
I miss those days.
Aside from what they claim in their fliers begging for more money, when was that?
When they helped get machineguns banned? Or maybe when they were advocating for the NICS, so that we can have big nanny government check to see if people are allowed to exercise their Constitutional rights? Or maybe when they were advocating for waiting periods? Or maybe when they were supporting interstate commerce clause to regulate ammunition?
GOA and NAGR fill that void now
U are going to have to be very convincing that the NRA was ever NOT for any of the many egregious laws the congress has passed since 1877. The NRA has been around for all of them, including the 1934 Act that started them all, and the 1986 law that essentially banned machine guns through obsolescence. Up to 1986 Congress had not banned anything, but why let that be a bother. No, the NRA has chosen to be bi-partisan and stick to giving grades to democrats when there isn’t a democrat alive that deserves a pro gun rating, since their entire reason for being is a ban on guns despite any claims to the contrary. I do believe that one can safely say, their position on abortion has killed far more people than their position on guns has saved anyone. The NRA has been an active player in the deception.
And yes I am an NRA member, but a most skeptical one.