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To: Shooter 2.5
It looks like you didn’t do your homework.

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.

17 posted on 05/01/2010 10:23:12 PM PDT by epow (When I married Miss Right I didn't know that "Always" was her first name.)
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To: epow
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 forgot to mention that SB 291 is almost certain to be vetoed by the governor because it allows GFL licensees to carry guns concealed or openly in churches, something the Governor has said he will not support. I'm reasonably sure that NRA knows that as well as Georgia's gun owners do.

19 posted on 05/01/2010 11:04:10 PM PDT by epow (When I married Miss Right I didn't know that "Always" was her first name.)
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To: epow; All

It looks like you didn’t do your homework. And the live feed no longer is current.

Fact: The NRA is calling for it’s members to support 308 according to the NRA-ILA website as of April 30.


21 posted on 05/02/2010 4:49:02 AM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA /Patron - TSRA- IDPA)
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