I do have a hard time giving any credit to an organization that has been instrumental is giving away my 2nd Amendment Rights:
1934 NFA, NRA sponsored
1968 Gun Control Act, supported by the NRA and NSSF. Essentially protected the SAAMI and NSSF domestic companies at the expense of the US Citizens 2nd Amendment Rights
1986 Gun Owners Act, Threw a big chunk of the 2nd amendment away by creating a prohibited class of weapons, called “machine guns”.
2002 Homeland Security Act - Moving the BATFE into the Justice Department, a huge infringement of the Constitiution by moving a TAX collection/enforcement function into the Judicial Branch as now a Law Enforcement Agency on par with the FBI. NRA??? Cricket Cricket
Commerce 922c ruling: NRA help draft the language so the Commerce Department could have a confict in the language so an Administrative Ruling would result, The result is “no machine gun” barrels can be imported. Thank you NRA again and the SAAMI voting members strangely benefited and the US Citizens access to parts for weapons is reduced significantly....hmmmm
Add to the personally observed and engaged converstations in Washington, DC on several occasions prior the Heller case with NRA Staff and retained Lawyers, going “off” about how “stupid”, “moronic” “doomed for judicial failure” or “ill planned” the Heller case was prior to the Oral Arguements. Yeah, the NRA was really supportive......NOT. Facts are stubborn things
The NRA created the problem ie, 1986 gun owners act, then turns around and benefits from the very act they help write some months later by claiming the Federal Government is infringing upon the 2nd amendment. Typical plan by a wholly political machine. Much like a lawyer, lawyers thrive on the conflict, not on the resolution, the NRA thrives on the conflict, sometimes as a party to creating the conflict, thus keeping the conflict going, I have yet to see the NRA with a plan to litigate or legislate the Rights of the 2nd Amendment. When the NRA starts acting like the ACLU or Planned Parenthood/NARAL about my “Gun Rights” then I will respect the NRA, till then they are a Washington DC, boondogle outfit more interested in being thought of nicely at some Beltway country club on the weekend and ensuring the SAAMI voting member Companies are happy and the unsuspecting American gun owners keep the money flowing to them. The Keene election proves this.
I thank Al Gore every day for inventing the internet.