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NRA Discourages Board Members From Testifying Against Kagan
Politics Daily ^ | JUne 27, 2010 | Matt Lewis

Posted on 06/28/2010 5:03:01 AM PDT by libstripper

On the eve of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan -- and for the second time in two weeks -- the National Rifle Association (NRA) is under fire from conservatives. According to RedState's Erick Erickson, a prominent conservative blogger, "internal Senate emails confirmed by NRA Board Members show that the National Rifle Association's management team has explicitly and directly told the NRA's board they are prohibited from testifying about second amendment issues" during the Kagan hearings.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicsdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; kagan; nra; rtkba; scotus
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To: Puppage
What was their reply?

I don't know. I hung up before he could say a word.
21 posted on 06/28/2010 5:24:33 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: Vaquero
I must reiterate what I have mentioned here before....the NRA is NOT a conservative or libertarian organization. It is a Pro 2nd amendment organization who will back A and B rated politicians who are liberal on other issues and will not back 90% conservative politicians who are weak on the 2nd amendment.

You got that right. This photo graced the pages of American Rifleman magazine last month:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2482268/posts

22 posted on 06/28/2010 5:25:50 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: libstripper

Thanks for posting. BTTT!


23 posted on 06/28/2010 5:26:42 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: libstripper

Waiting for the NRA apologists to come in here, chastise anyone criticizing this particular plan, and tell us that this is just masterful strategery that the rest of us buffoons are too stupid to see the brilliance of.


24 posted on 06/28/2010 5:28:11 AM PDT by thecabal (Destroy Progressivism)
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To: Yo-Yo

and they give Reid a D rating and will not back him in the election....they did however give Reid his Photo op as Reid helped open up ranges in Nevada.


25 posted on 06/28/2010 5:29:16 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: libstripper

I have given up on the NRA for the second time, the first around thirty years ago when Harlan Carter ran the show. I believe that Gun Owners of America (GOA) is a better outfit, and will be my choice for second amendment rights defense from now on. http://gunowners.org/


26 posted on 06/28/2010 5:29:26 AM PDT by Big_Harry ( Starve the Beast!)
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To: Mich Patriot

Join the ONLY 2nd Amendment group that has done ANYTHING of substance for gun owners... the Bill of Rights Foundation was the core group behind Heller.


27 posted on 06/28/2010 5:30:42 AM PDT by BCR #226 (07/02 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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To: thecabal

I just emailed the PVF and the ILA to ask what their answer to the article was.


28 posted on 06/28/2010 5:32:00 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Yo-Yo

So who are those uh, guys sucking up to Reid while he’s not at the line missing clay birds with his Weatherby custom engraved O/U?


29 posted on 06/28/2010 5:33:28 AM PDT by OKSooner ("Give 'em another play.")
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To: Joe Brower; Squantos; Travis McGee; Noumenon; SLB; archy
WHISKEY
TANGO
FOXTROT
... over

30 posted on 06/28/2010 5:33:32 AM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: libstripper
From the NRA-ILA as it appears today(don't believe everything you read......lets not throw out the baby with the bath water):

With a Key Supreme Court Decision
Pending, NRA Watches the Court's Latest Nominee

Friday, June 25, 2010

On Monday, June 28, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will begin confirmation hearings on the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. With a Supreme Court decision expected that same day in the critical Second Amendment case of McDonald v. City of Chicago and many more Second Amendment cases likely to come, the NRA is following the debate over the Kagan nomination extremely closely.

Because Ms. Kagan has no judicial record and few academic writings, the NRA is carefully reviewing her record in other government posts, including her clerkship for the late Justice Thurgood Marshall and her involvement in formulating anti-gun policies at the Clinton White House. What we've seen to date shows a hostility towards our Right to Keep and Bear Arms, such as her role in developing the Clinton Administration's 1998 ban on importation of many models of semi-automatic rifles; her note mentioning the NRA and the Ku Klux Klan as “bad guy” organizations; and her comment to Justice Marshall that she was “not sympathetic” to a challenge to Washington, D.C.’s handgun ban.

We are working with pro-gun Senators to make sure that Ms. Kagan is aggressively questioned regarding her views on the Second Amendment and other issues that affect America's 80 million gun owners and we look forward to hearing her answers.

http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=5936

31 posted on 06/28/2010 5:38:47 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: libstripper

This just goes to prove that as gun owners, we’re basically on our own.

The *Progressive* movement has bought off or infiltrated nearly every institution in this country. In turn, these disputes will likely be settled by the point of a gun.


32 posted on 06/28/2010 5:40:26 AM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
"Chris Cox needs to go, preferably with tar and feathers."

If this article's alligations are true, I agree. He's got to go. It sounds like a power grab within the NRA.
33 posted on 06/28/2010 5:40:52 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden (u)
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To: libstripper

When Obama got elected I finally rejoined after a long hiatus because of their inconsistent political activity.

But I’m thinking of canceling my membership again.
I do not want one penny of my money helping the NRA support leftist policies and candidates.

It seems the NRA is well on the way to becoming just another front organization like AARP.


34 posted on 06/28/2010 5:43:18 AM PDT by Iron Munro (I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take anymore beatings)
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To: Boomer One

Their actions of late have been quite disappointing for this Life member.


35 posted on 06/28/2010 5:44:40 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: libstripper

What the hell is the matter with NRA?? Charleton Heston wouldn’ve have put up with this sh*t. The current NRA leadership needs to set things right or that organization is going to see an exodus of membership.


36 posted on 06/28/2010 5:45:53 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: bmwcyle

I don’t know why people continue to fund this organization.


37 posted on 06/28/2010 5:51:02 AM PDT by jrg
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To: Yo-Yo
"You got that right. This photo graced the pages of American Rifleman magazine last month:"

That was in Americas First Freedom also. The article about Reid getting a big shooting park opened in Nevada. Although Reid is a despicable sleeze, he is good on gun rights so I'm okay with the NRA supporting him. Its looking good that he will get defeated anyways. Lets hope we're waving goodbye to him come November.
38 posted on 06/28/2010 5:51:33 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden (u)
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To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; nunya bidness; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; wku man; SLB; ...
Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!
39 posted on 06/28/2010 5:53:33 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: ScottinVA

Nugent is still the highest-profile NRA board member; I’d like to know what Ted thinks of this - and the Disclose Act business.


40 posted on 06/28/2010 5:55:05 AM PDT by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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