From the NRA-ILA website
Friday, April 30, 2010
Two important pro-gun bills (Senate Bill 291 and Senate Bill 308) have both successfully passed and will now head to Governor Sonny Perdue’s (R) desk for his consideration.
SB291 would allow a person lawfully licensed to carry a concealed firearm the right to carry in all non-secure areas and while dropping off or picking up passengers at an airport or airport facility. Also included in the bill is a provision that would make the license renewal process much easier by basically creating an automatic renewal. Instead of the licensee having to remember to renew, the probate court will be required to send out renewals 90 days before expiration.
SB308 would reform Georgia’s concealed carry laws so that the concealed carry license would enable the person to carry any handgun or knife, openly or concealed. SB 308 would also allow concealed carry license holders to carry in more places by repealing the broad and vague “public gathering ban.”
Please begin contacting Governor Perdue today by phone at (404) 656-1776 or via email by clicking here and respectfully urge him to sign these important concealed carry reform bills.
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It looks like you didn’t do your homework.
This is just another thread in a long line of threads posted on FR recently trying to turn people against the NRA. I have been a member since 1954 and I will always be a member. If it wasn’t for the NRA we would have lost all gun rights in this country long ago. GOA maybe ok but anyone who dumps the NRA for the GOA are simply idiots. Join both if you have a problem, but I will never dump the NRA, especially since articles like these rarely pan out(if ever)to be true. This was sure as he** isn’t.
I watched the portion of Friday's Georgia General Assembly session in which the two gun bills were being debated and voted on, did you? If not you could have, the GA Assembly sessions can be viewed and heard HERE. The NRA-ILA message on your post is only what the NRA was putting out today. I received that same email from NRA this morning, and I was almost stunned to see that apparently the NRA now supports the same bill that it lobbied against in the GA Assembly just yesterday. Does one NRA hand not know what the other NRA hand is doing?
What you don't know about this strange behavior by the NRA, or at least didn't mention, is the FACT that the NRA had it's lobbyists working the floor of the Georgia Assembly before the Friday evening vote lobbying delegates to the Assembly to vote AGAINST SB 308. One representative told a GCO member that the NRA lobbyists were threatening Assembly members by saying that their rating in the NRA voting guide would be significantly lowered if he or she voted for the bill. While it's true that the same NRA lobbyists were lobbying FOR passage of SB 291, SB 291 is not nearly as important and beneficial as SB 308 because it doesn't repeal the onerous "public gathering" clause that is the primary thorn in the sides of GFL licensees.
I didn't need to do any homework. I am a NRA member of long standing who resides in GA, and I keep a close eye on state and local lawmakers who have the power to deny me the ability to practice my Constitutional rights, especially my 2nd Amendment rights. If your home page is correct you reside in TX, and I doubt that you keep abreast of the success or failure of the gun related legislation that is introduced in the GA General Assembly each year. But I do, and I know for a fact that was witnessed by pro-gun people who I know to be reliable and truthful that NRA's lobbiest on the floor of the Assembly lobbied aggressively AGAINST passage of a crucially important pro-gun bill in the sine die session of the 2010 GA Assembly. The fact that the very next morning NRA-ILA emailed NRA members, including myself, asking for support for the same bill that it lobbied against the day before doesn't change or explain it's perfidious action on the previous day in opposition to a very important pro-gun bill.
I am as puzzled as anyone else by NRA's Saturday endorsement of the same bill that it aggressively lobbied against Friday. But to deny that it took place would be simply closing my eyes to the truth. Nothing that either NRA-ILA or you say or claim now can change what was seen and heard Friday evening by reliable witnesses, to wit, when the rubber met the road NRA was squarely on the wrong side of the track.
This is my final post on this thread. You are of course free to continue believing whatever you want regarding the matter, but believing that NRA didn't do what it is accused of doing won't make it true.