I quit the NRA in 88 when they supported the gun act that banned the making of more machine guns for the public.
Now, the 2nd is only for the rich I guess. I’m hoping for some kind of miracle from the next SC decision that the Second Ammendment really means what it says, that our Right to bear arms shall not be infringed by any F*CKING BODY, let alone some God-Damned politician!
Thats about the same time I left the organization as well. It was the issue you cite, along with the twice per week calls for more of my money in ‘donation’s’.
Of course they supported the Firearms Owners Protection Act. Could they help it some shiite for brains Congressman added that provision, via a voice vote of "questionable propriety" at the last minute, nearly literally, on the House floor?
David Hardy wrote a good law journal article on the subject.
Except for that one provision, which is horrendous, the FOPA was a good law. It removed many of the more onerous provisions of the '68 Gun Control act, provided for protected transport of a firearm through anti gun jurisdictions, and once again allowed the interstate purchase of ammunition by non-dealers, among other things. Like this current bill, it provided for "relief from disability, but failed close the "budgetary loophole" that prevents BATFE from acting on those applications (not that they want too do so anyway).
If the SC finds that the Second Amendment *is* an individual right, which of course it is, then the machine ban, and perhaps the entire "tax a right" scheme of the National Firearm Act (also supported by the NRA as "compromise" after handguns were dropped from it's reach), may be ripe for adjudication as well.