For your information, whether you love or hate the NRA, presented from a TIME article...
Gotta give a whole lot to keep a little bit, amirite???
Chris Cox just stated, however, that, “The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations,” about the bump-fire stock. Isn't that an infringement on the right to bear arms- the exact opposite of what the 2nd Amendment says? Why would this guy ever support getting rid of the NFA status of select-fire weapons, whom his own organization was instrumental in getting out of the hands of 99.9% of the public in the first place? The NRA also was instrumental in keeping it that way in 1986 when it added a line into it's "flagship federal bill" that banned the manufacture of new machine guns for civilian sale!
So you keep "giving a little" to get absolutely nothing in return except more draconian restrictions, until you're limited to a slingshot and bow and arrow (and they will come for those too), but I and many others are fed up with this fifth-column organization. They are the traitors in the gate posing as allies, stabbing us in the back.
If you're fed up also after having read this, or are looking for an organization that actually does defend the 2nd Amendment, look into GOA, or a state-wide organization that has a track record of defending (not defeating) the 2nd. AzCDL is a good example.
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.”
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.”
Gotta give a whole lot to keep a little bit, amirite???
For much of the 20th century, the NRA had lobbied and co-authored legislation that was similar to the modern legislative measures the association now characterizes as unconstitutional. But by the 1970s the NRA came to view attempts to enact gun-control laws as threats to the Second Amendment, a viewpoint strongly articulated at last week’s Republican National Convention by current NRA leader Chris Cox.
Chris Cox just stated, however, that, “The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations,” about the bump-fire stock. Isn't that an infringement on the right to bear arms- the exact opposite of what the 2nd Amendment says? Why would this guy ever support getting rid of the NFA status of select-fire weapons, whom his own organization was instrumental in getting out of the hands of 99.9% of the public in the first place? The NRA also was instrumental in keeping it that way in 1986 when it added a line into it's "flagship federal bill" that banned the manufacture of new machine guns for civilian sale!
So you keep "giving a little" to get absolutely nothing in return except more draconian restrictions, until you're limited to a slingshot and bow and arrow (and they will come for those too), but I and many others are fed up with this fifth-column organization. They are the traitors in the gate posing as allies, stabbing us in the back.
If you're fed up also after having read this, or are looking for an organization that actually does defend the 2nd Amendment, look into GOA, or a state-wide organization that has a track record of defending (not defeating) the 2nd. AzCDL is a good example.
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