M-Rex
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You could always move back to the United States where we don't have as many rediculous gun bans.
Montana looks better and better every day. I remind you folks, NRA or non-NRA, we're all on the same team, here.
You could always move back to the United States where we don't have as many rediculous gun bans.
50 Freak, maybe you are doing all you can do but the vast majority of Cali gun owners aren't.
I said before that if a couple million Cali gun owners joined the NRA, the anti gun Cali politicians would be running for cover.
Heck if they just voted..............
Montana looks better and better every day. I remind you folks, NRA or non-NRA, we're all on the same team, here.
"I'm a bit numb ... They had the power to turn around at least 60 votes in the Senate. That's amazing to me."
- Senator Feinstein as quoted in the NY Times 3/3/04
No such animal exists.antigun liberal politician
Montana looks better and better every day. I remind you folks, NRA or non-NRA, we're all on the same team, here.
Wow, when did The High Road turn into Romper Room?
The NRA was instrumental last year in keeping the AWB from being renewed when Dems slipped it into the first bill that would provide lawsuit protection for the firearms industry.
What was the last bill that was backed by the NRA that INCREASED the liberty of Americans?
50 Freak, My friend I'm sorry. I do understand.
I was lucky and excaped from Maryland 40 years ago.
I call BS.The NRA was perfectly willing to allow the AWB to be renewed in exchange for liability protection for the gun manufacturers. It was the grass roots activism of GOA and satellites, combined with the word getting out via the internet, that put a halt to it. The NRA cleverly claimed credit for it, but on the local level, they did almost nothing.
Actually, the proposal enjoyed broad, bipartisan support in both chambers of Congress... it would have passed easily had the anti-gun amendments mentioned below not been added.
The 2004 bill was just as much a gift to the industry as proposed now. But its authors were directed by the National Rifle Association to sink it when two sensible gun-safety measures were added.
While it's easy to blame the NRA for the anti-gun movement's lack of success over the past decade or so, this sophomoric tactic ignores the fact that the NRA is nothing more than a group of American citizens banding together to make their voices heard, just like the AARP, The Sierra Club, and other organizations.
It is the 4+ million MEMBERS of the NRA, along with many millions of other gun owners, that make politicians reluctant to support anti-Second Amendment legislation.
The NRA wins in Congress not because of any unfair advantage, he said. The association simply has a huge, motivated membership.
Many Republicans and even more members of the National Rifle Association rejoiced when the ban was lifted. Many Democrats simultaneously expressed outrage, accusing Bush and the GOP of caving in to the NRA.
Sept. 5 Neal Knox Update -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) indicated at an off-the-recod meeting a couple of days ago that he thought the Senate would join the House in passing S. 659, the gun industry liability protection bill. I didn’t get to ask him if he expected a Feinstein amendment to be offered on the Commerce-Justice-State Appropriations bill.
Even if he had said when and how S. 659 would move, I couldn’t discuss it without permission of his staff. But it’s no secret that all sides of the debate believe that supporters of the gun industry bill probably have the 60 votes necessary to defeat the threatened Boxer-Schumer-Lautenberg filibuster – particularly since a lot of Senators received a pounding from gun owners during the August recess, as a result of widespread NRA mailings.
"In a move to exploit meaningful legislation designed to preserve the firearms industry, gun-ban activists in Congress slipped through 'poison pill' amendments, which would have resulted in draconian restrictions on the rights of law-abiding gun owners. As a result, the National Rifle Association (NRA) withdrew its support for final passage and the 'Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act,' S. 1805 amended was successfully defeated by a margin of 08-90."
"As NRA stated before S. 1805 was debated, this had to be a clean bill or we would not support it. While we will continue to work to save the U.S. firearms industry, we have said from the start that we would not allow this bill to become a vehicle for added restrictions on law-abiding Americans."
"Legislation to stop baseless lawsuits against the law-abiding American firearms industry has the support of the White House, the U.S. House of Representatives, countless conservation, commerce and union groups, and the American people. It is unfortunate that some in Congress are more interested in undermining the rights of law-abiding gun owners than in passing meaningful legislation."
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Thank you for helping kill this gun-control laden monster, NRA!