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To: Shooter 2.5; moneyrunner
For those of you who think the NRA is the only salvation for the Second Amendment, I suggest you go back and study your history. The NRA has a long and ugly record of complacency, complicity, and duplicity when it comes to gun control laws.

The very reason the GOA exists (as well as so many other RKBA organizations) is because the NRA have voluntarily yielded so many of our Second Amendment rights to the gun grabbers.
17 posted on 04/28/2003 6:37:47 PM PDT by SpyGuy
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To: SpyGuy
You're going to have to remember that when some of those laws were written, the NRA had something like 300,000 members and had little influence in government.

When clinton blamed the NRA for the congressional and senatorial defeats, the political landscape changed. Now, we have the muscle to go on the offense which is what happened today. The whole map of the US is changing.

If you want the NRA to disappear, you better think about that for a minute. The NRA was neutral in the Georgia trigger lock Bill and the GOA was upset because they weren't there. The NRA may not give money to Ron Paul because of the Gun Company lawsuit protection and the GOA is upset because the NRA isn't there to throw money at him.

Be careful what you wish for.
20 posted on 04/28/2003 6:49:43 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (Don't punch holes in the lifeboat)
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To: SpyGuy
The very reason the GOA exists (as well as so many other RKBA organizations) is because the NRA have voluntarily yielded so many of our Second Amendment rights to the gun grabbers.

I'm a life member of GOA, but only an annual for the NRA for this very reason.

34 posted on 04/29/2003 3:32:59 AM PDT by jjm2111
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