re: What's going on with the NRA?

Once you stop watching the news and talking politics with people, your life becomes much better. You realize how much negativity that shite brings into your life. Nowadays, people live to be angry about that type of thing. frick em all. I'll stick to getting paid, having sex, and drinking Jack and Cokes

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Let me explain something that should be painfully obvious but some of you are missing, because you really don't get the bigger picture here: the NRA is the 800lb gorilla that groups like GOA, SAF, FPC, and many others need to be as effective as they are. The NRA draws a lot of fire, sometimes deservedly, and that allows groups like the SAF to bring cases before the courts without the media (and therefore the attention of oppositional legislatures) scrutiny that the NRA would get. Withdrawing support from ANY of these groups is myopic, narrow-minded, self-important grandstanding

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Well said.

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I'll post a copy of the memo later because there are some here that need to read it.

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I remember the memo. Basically they want to isolate and divide gun owners. The gun control advocates know that hunters have been declining for decades. That was at the time they were looking to push Brady 2.

The NRA needs to learn from history which they haven't. When FOPA was passed, machine gun owners were thrown under the bus and gave gun control advocates the ammo they needed to attack other classes of firearms. They've gotten fat and lazy and need an overhaul. Make no mistake this bump stock ban feels eerily like FOPA and you can bet that even if SCOTUS rules Assault weapons bans illegal, they'll go after every accessory and part.

The NRA needs to step up efforts to protect and push 2A legislation. They wasted 2 years and who knows when the Republicans will get the House again.

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The NRA needs to learn from history

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While I don’t disagree, the NRA is I think the largest pro-hunting organization as well.

Yea that's ridiculous, he needs to be forced out and that retirement needs a chainsaw taken to it.

I hate the NRAs tactics for securing funding but lets not pretend they have not been critical in protecting 2nd amendent rights.

Lets be real, it takes large sumes of money to challenge anything in court these days

They maybe our largest hunting advocates but also are the largest reason why hunters get a bad rap too. The organization far too often doesn't spend what it should on hunters while harboring factions of nut jobs who think a rifle is meant for a Gov't official instead of putting food on the table. Conversation groups do a far better job in that aspect.

Well...... I honestly really don't in most circumstances. Predator hunting though is drenched in the use of AR style weapons.

Question to the crowd? Would you be okay with having to show a more thorough background check and a special permit to purchase and own an AR. kinda like a concealed permit?

No. It is a second amendment right to protect ones self against a tyrannical govt.

It isnt for hunting. It is straight up for mel gibson style patriot arse kickings

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while harboring factions of nut jobs who think a rifle is meant for a Gov't official instead of putting food on the table.

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Apparently you have no idea why the the 2nd Amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution.