Pot this is kettle
Ray Schoenke of the American Hunters and Shooters Association is over at the HuffPo criticizing, and I am not making this up, John McCain over his pro-gun street cred. And being Schoenke, he pulls a a big whopper:
We know most gun owners do support background checks according to a survey of gun owners conducted by Field and Stream. That’s the position of AHSA. But, it’s not the position of the NRA, which purports to represent gun owners. But one thing is clear: real gun owners aren’t represented by either McCain or the NRA.
And since you guys are just a sham group set up by the DLC to throw out fake pro-gun endorsements to Democrats, you don’t either. You just endorsed one of the most anti-gun politicos ever.
And it’s funny because it actually, uh, is the position of NRA to support background checks.
May 20th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Well they reveal their willingness to abuse polls:
From Field and Stream:
“Over three months last spring, we took an informal survey on fieldandstream.com of 2,897 F&S readers about the state of hunting in America.”
This is hardly a survey of gun owners and is definitely a survey developed to avoid bias, selective sampling and all the other problems with polls. Nor was it random or likely to be seen by most gun owners.
Perhaps an informal survey could be conducted by Say Uncle about AHSA. Then it could be cited as gospel in reports and editorials as how most gun owners feel about AHSA.