See here: NRA Statement on New Orleans Gun Confiscations
The statement was dated September 12, 2005, well over a week after most of the incidents had occurred. Now, I will give the NRA credit for ultimately stopping the seizures (NRA files suit to stop firearms seizures in New Orleans) and (Major Victory For Firearms Owners And Freedom In Louisiana), but I well remember that first week, when me and all the other 2nd Amendment supporters on this board gnawed our tongues and gnashed our teeth in anger during that first week, with nary a peep out of the NRA on the seizures, not until the 12th.
Just read the posts on that first thread and you will get a sense of the frustration we felt at NRA for not getting its act together faster.
Over the past few years I’ve been feeling more and more like the NRA administration sees itself as somehow above the members, that the members should be overjoyed that they have such a kind and benificent group of people willing to look after them.
So, just as our government is supposed to worry about the citizens picking up their rifles and bringing order to Washington, D.C., perhaps it’s time to remind La Pierre and Co. that they work for us. Mr. Jackson may very well be a famous man in Texas but because of these statements that he made, which show his true feelings, he needs to go. Let his recall serve as a warning to any other directors or officers who fail to live up to the principles of the NRA.
The NRA and the Second Amendment Foundation filed their lawsuits as quickly as they could. They are also on the forefront of making sure the citizens are getting their guns back.
The GOA still hasn’t done a thing. No lawsuit, no petitions before the court, no filing motions for contempt of court by the mayor or the chief of police like the NRA or the SAF. Nothing.
The GOA is nothing more than a family owned t-shirt and novelties company. Entirely useless for anything else.