The full-auto portion of this case rests on a technicality. Technicalities do not play well in the press, so any support given by the NRA in this case gets turned into “The NRA Supports Full-Auto Criminals”.

The gun was not a full-auto and until Wrenn lied to the agent he was not a criminal. But you know and I know and Uncle knows what the press would do to thios case if a national organization started putting their fingers into it.

And now that Wrenn has plead guilty to something, anything, the press can play off “Machine Gunner Pleads Guilty”. It doesn’t matter that it isn’t on a weapons charge, they can bury the actual charges in paragraph 15, they want the words “Machine Gunner’ and ‘Guilty’ in the headline.

Myself, I don’t care if an organization I belong to gets known for connecting themselves to full-auto gunners who are being jerked around the the feds. But I think the other bunch of the NRA; the ‘I only own a gun so I can go hunting a few weekends a year’ types who don’t even have a dedicated home defense firearm, which according the NRA’s own stats are close to 1/3 of the membership, would be very unhappy if they started doing that.