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July 6th, 2012 at 11:49 am
From the comments:
Anti-gun people who harp on full-auto weapons sound like idiots to gun-users. Along with super-high-end hunting rifles, full-auto weapons are the Apex of status among gun-users–something only had by those who have arrived–a hard-won privilege that would be taken away, instantly and forever–if the person it was granted to abused it and to imagine someone using a legally-owned, full-auto weapon to commit a crime, any crime, is like imagining someone of modest income, saving up money for decades to buy a Lamborghini and then only driving it while he was drunk.
July 6th, 2012 at 1:19 pm
Ummm, no. The NRA is so powerful because it made itself indispensable to gun clubs from it’s get-go. When I first started to shoot in high school, in the mid-1950s, our high school team and the LEGITIMATE club that we all belonged to were broadly supported by the NRA. The NRA was THE conduit to competition, there was no other.
GOA, SAF, JPFO, none of them do the competition thing or support clubs that train people.
The second thing the NRA does, and this is what generates the most controversy, is that they operate on “K” Street, where your power is measured by your Rolodex. Again, the other 2A-protective orgs haven’t gotten that far, and don’t seem to want to.
There are a lot of things the NRA does right, and about the only things I nail them on is their hyper-marketing of crap like Lifelock and other scams, and their stranglehold on local clubs. A local club ought to be able to decline the NRA’s help if it doesn’t fit them, but don’t even think of trying to break away, even if you as a club member can make an economic argument for it.
July 6th, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Lots of sour grapes in the comments over there.
And there is plenty in the NRA that I disagree with, but I am a member. If they weren’t there, I think things would look a lot worse for us.
July 7th, 2012 at 7:01 am
The NRA doesn’t stir pro-gunners up. We are already feverent in our conviction, so we come up with things like the NRA.