St. Louis Revolt
I admire the sentiment but I think working together is better than taking over. Besides, none of those people could beat, say, Ted Nugent out.
hah: Doesn’t have too many ideas of his own any more, but he’ll tell you about a good idea he just heard.
July 28th, 2011 at 10:23 am
Ted wouldn’t be replaced. He’s one of us, mostly.
July 28th, 2011 at 11:03 am
“They even helped craft the 1968 Gun Control Act.”
Where does this stuff come from? Angel? Red State? Where?
NRA proposed an affidavit regime, similar to how you purchase ammo today, in 1967 and suddenly they are sitting down with Dodd, Tyson and Kennedy.
July 28th, 2011 at 11:46 am
I’ve read that as well, but never seen a definitive source for it.
July 28th, 2011 at 12:29 pm
I doubt the post was meant to be serious. You do not send vestal virgins to have a knife fight in a whorehouse.
July 28th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
What’s a vestal?
July 28th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
@Miguel, It wasn’t intended to be completely serious. It was intended to be a humorous way to say something very serious. I don’t think that the NRA is fully on board with the cutting edge of gun rights. They’ve pulled the rug out from under us here in NC, and they’ve done the same in PA. I’ve talked to the people involved and saw what they did. I really think that we need to take over once again and reorient the NRA as people have suggested. SAF handles legal challenges, the NRA lobbies for law changes. They work hand in hand, and woe betide anyone who crosses us.
@SB: They didn’t stop the bill. Strangely enough, the bill handed power to the licensed gun dealers and took it away from those who didn’t have an FFL. It’s almost like it was sold to the firearms industry as a business protection bill.
As I said, the NRA then is not the NRA now. But the NRA now is not the NRA we want or need. I will be making sure that when I vote in the NRA elections, I will be voting for the people who represent me. Elections have consequences, after all.
July 28th, 2011 at 3:58 pm
“It’s almost like it was sold to the firearms industry as a business protection bill.”
The industry didn’t buy it, they were the ones doing the selling. Of course, what started in the late ’50s as a little import-killing protectionist bill morphed into the monstrosity we got – though it did tone down some of the excesses of the OCCSSA.
July 28th, 2011 at 4:26 pm
I like the idea of Stingray. “Fucknozzle” needs to be in the dictionary.
July 29th, 2011 at 6:00 pm
“They didn’t stop the bill.”
Well, right, but the NRA was not constituted in 1968 to do that. ILA was not formed until several years after 1968.
Whiners like Angel or EE at Red State are like teenage girls demanding that daddy make the world perfect. And, give me a pony!