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Done with the NRA -- NRA wants to ban bumpfire stocks & other near f/a devices
RSR:
Looks like the NRA is back to compromising gun rights like they did for most of the 20th Century. I'm tired of these cowards giving up our rights -- I'm done with them. My money will continue going to the Second Amendment Foundation, and I'll be taking a long hard look at Gun Owners of America as well. I will be contact the NRA to advise them of my opinion and cancel my membership -- I'm very thankful I didn't move forward with the Life Membership I was considering earlier this year.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/05/nra-calls-for-federal-review-of-whether-bump-fire-stocks-comply-with-current-law-243500
--- Quote ---The National Rifle Association on Thursday called on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to review whether bump fire stocks ? like the device used in this week?s Las Vegas shooting massacre ? comply with current federal law.
?The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations,? NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre and Executive Director Chris Cox added in a joint statement.
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On the NRA's history of gun control: http://time.com/4431356/nra-gun-control-history/
--- Quote ---In the 1920s, the National Revolver Association, the arm of the NRA responsible for handgun training, proposed regulations later adopted by nine states, requiring a permit to carry a concealed weapon, five years additional prison time if the gun was used in a crime, a ban on gun sales to non-citizens, a one day waiting period between the purchase and receipt of a gun, and that records of gun sales be made available to police.
The 1930s crime spree of the Prohibition era, which still summons images of outlaws outfitted with machine guns, prompted President Franklin Roosevelt to make gun control a feature of the New Deal. The NRA assisted Roosevelt in drafting the 1934 National Firearms Act and the 1938 Gun Control Act, the first federal gun control laws. These laws placed heavy taxes and regulation requirements on firearms that were associated with crime, such as machine guns, sawed-off shotguns and silencers. Gun sellers and owners were required to register with the federal government and felons were banned from owning weapons. Not only was the legislation unanimously upheld by the Supreme Court in 1939, but Karl T. Frederick, the president of the NRA, testified before Congress stating, ?I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.?
For the next 30 years, the NRA continued to support gun control. By the late 1960s a shift in the NRA platform was on the horizon.
On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. He shot the president with an Italian military surplus rifle purchased from a NRA mail-order advertisement. NRA Executive Vice-President Franklin Orth agreed at a congressional hearing that mail-order sales should be banned stating, ?We do think that any sane American, who calls himself an American, can object to placing into this bill the instrument which killed the president of the United States.? The NRA also supported California?s Mulford Act of 1967, which had banned carrying loaded weapons in public in response to the Black Panther Party?s impromptu march on the State Capitol to protest gun control legislation on May 2, 1967.
The summer riots of 1967 and assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 prompted Congress to reenact a version of the FDR-era gun control laws as the Gun Control Act of 1968. The act updated the law to include minimum age and serial number requirements, and extended the gun ban to include the mentally ill and drug addicts. In addition, it restricted the shipping of guns across state lines to collectors and federally licensed dealers and certain types of bullets could only be purchased with a show of ID. The NRA, however, blocked the most stringent part of the legislation, which mandated a national registry of all guns and a license for all gun carriers. In an interview in American Rifleman, Franklin Orth stated that despite portions of the law appearing ?unduly restrictive, the measure as a whole appears to be one that the sportsmen of America can live with.?
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RSR:
Second Amendment Foundation: https://www.saf.org/
Gun Owners of America: http://www.gunowners.org/
Voodoo:
You didn't post the whole statement.
I see it as we give up bump stock but you give us national concealed carry reciprocity.
Clausewitz:
Sometimes the reality of our situation dictates hard choices. Then again, it is silly. Anyone can bumpfire without a special stock.
SI VIS PACEM PARRABELLUM:
I have remained an NRA member but I stopped sending any extra money after they endorsed "dingy" harry reid and robert bird crap.
I know this is them trying to do damage control but it WILL set us down a slope we'll never reclimb once it's started.
The sad reality is this looney tune in Vegas would have done his damage bump stock or not.
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