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All the BS in the media and no peep from the NRA. Anyone ever ask why they were dismantled when they were?

They are spending what’s left of the money they collected from us.

On spring break vacation in Italy....

Probably down at the men's clothing store getting WLP some new suits for the summer season.

Wayne was last seen sleeping in the cab of a UHaul somewhere between NY and Texas.

Gucci makes some fine men's clothing . .

Busy selling insurance

Or wine.

The NRA is full of Fudds who would help ban your mean-looking AR as long as they can keep bird hunting with their scattergun and not be bothered. This is less true today than it was 20 years ago, but still true. GOA and a couple of others give you a lot more bang for your buck. The NRA was great at piece-mealing the 2nd Amendment away a bit at a time under the guise of compromise which incidentally is never "we're gonna repeal the whole GCA today! Okay, we'll settle for repealing half of it". Nope, it's always them taking a little less of it at a time. Never us taking back. The NRA is just an outgrowth of the Republican Party. Worthless. Literally. Not worth nothing. Just worth less. Less than it could be if there were less cowardly sell-outs involved at all levels.

(For more of this see many of the regular poseurs on the Campfire...and I ain't talking jello or burrinho or other obvious commie plants...I'm talking about assweasels who are dying to compromise.)

Planning the next convention and fund raiser. Not one red cent....

There was a lot of advertising about NRA Heritage Society (of which I know nothing) which I assumed to mean you would cut the NRA into your will. For people having participated, I wonder if some of them are having second thoughts...and how hard it might be to cut them back out of the will? Is it like time share scams where it takes legal action to break the contract?

I belong to the NRA, GOA, and JPFO (even though I'm not Jewish, they are far and away the most hardcore of the three). GAO and JPFO are effective in filing lawsuits in court and fighting local gun laws, but let's face it, when it comes time for arm twisting on Capitol Hill, only one of those three has any influence - the one bashed here constantly, including this thread. I don't know how much longer that will last, though.

I have no doubt that had it not been for the NRA, private ownership of handguns would have been essentially outlawed by excessive regulation in the 1970's under Carter, with Dem supermajorities in both houses (remember the form for handgun ammo?). The SCOTUS at the time under Warren Burger may well have allowed it to stand.

The NRA is far from perfect, maybe more imperfect than perfect, but it's the only effective lobbying group we have in DC.

Nothing personal but
The above statment is from NRA propaganda and lies

Wayne can eat a bag of dicks.

Like you, I'm not Jewish but am a Life Member of JPFO. Also a NRA Benefactor Member. I guess we shall see...

In 1972, the Dept. of the Treasury's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the Internal Revenue Service nearly doubled in size, and became the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF). Ostensibly, it was to enforce GCA '68, but in reality it was to construct a national federal force of law enforcement shock troops to assist local and state law enforcement agencies when handgun confiscation began (which, fortunately, never happened).

They are part of Treasury, not Justice, for a reason. To do the dirty work that the FBI is too high profile to do. The Attorney General gets hauled in front of Congress a lot more often than the Treasury Secretary. The majority of people in this country had never heard of BATF until Waco, by the way.

As the federal views on firearms morphed, the NRA morphed from a firearms education and events sponsor into a political lobbying group. Had they not done this, the firearms laws in this country would be much, much more like Canada's (perhaps even more restrictive in some areas) than what they are now.

Feinstein is keeping the text of her assault weapon ban bill a secret, probably to keep anyone from formulating a good response . Maybe they’re waiting for it to pop before they comment.

Or, maybe they can’t decide if they want to roll over and expose their (our) bellies, or bend over and drop ‘em.

Tending to bankruptcy proceedings.

Not anymore, according to Wikipedia:
"The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is a federal law enforcement organization within the United States Department of Justice."