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I don’t dismiss your thoughts completely. I get your point. I don’t think it plays out in a good way.

Isn’t this how incrementalism works? We give up this here, something else next week, another thing next month, and a few more things next year...

Petty soon, the Left arrives at the point they always wanted.

We gain NOTHING.

I think the NRA is planning to trade this "bump stock" ban for approval of suppressor legalization, just as soon as the furor dies down in a few months.

Liberals will be gaining something stupid and worthless, and we will be gaining something of real actual value.

But I think we will have to see how this pans out. The NRA is not stupid. I've known a lot of members, and many of them have good sense and they aren't willing to tolerate an actual infringement of the second amendment.

I don't like the idea of giving anything at all to the left, but until we get control of the broadcasting system, it appears now to be a political necessity to give them something trivial amd stupid.

Hopefully this will placate congress into giving us something that will more than make up for it in a couple of months or so.

“I think the NRA is planning to trade this “bump stock” ban for approval of suppressor legalization, just as soon as the furor dies down in a few months.

Liberals will be gaining something stupid and worthless, and we will be gaining something of real actual value.”

Well, we’ll see. The NRA doesn’t exactly have the greatest record in dealing with the gun-ban crowd. Because the NRA didn’t fight the ‘34 NFA and the ‘68 GCA, I cannot buy what my father and grandfathers could. How is something a “right” that does not span all periods of time?

“But I think we will have to see how this pans out. The NRA is not stupid.”

Yes, actually, they ARE stupid. They have become a little less stupid over time, as their members have started screaming at them to FIGHT, and to give up nothing, but they are still stupid. I belonged for 19 years, but left about 10 years ago because they backed super-citizen status for retired cops...but not for you and I. NRA routinely gives up things in return for nothing, and sometimes in return for a gift-wrapped package of dog crap.

We’ll see. Time will tell if they have grown a spine with a brain on one end, or if it is a case of SSDD.