If you are a NRA member read this

[PA5COR]

A non-profit organization is accused of funneling millions into the pockets of its executives. News: It's the NRA. Fark: Al Jazeera called them on their shiat (http://www.fark.com/cgi/go.pl?i=5934495&l=http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/20112375421439250.html)

At least you now know where your money goes to.

the gun industry and manufacturers had changed the profile of who their target market was. It was not about self-defence or the right to bear arms. They were hyper-marketing very lethal guns and they flooded the US with them. The NRA doesn't represent sport shooters and hunters. They were selling these killing machines.


Do read the whole article.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/20112375421439250.html

[KC2UGV]

Watch out 'Cor... You'll have people here very quickly defending the right to own a automatic handgun, with a 400 rpm firing rate, complete with "fingerprint-proof handgrip" as being a tool of sporting men.

[PA5COR]

I'm a gunowner myself ;)

I was NRA member in the 70's and early 80's too.
Different time different goal too.

[suddenseer]

I was a year to year member. I stopped supporting them when they went right wing political. And yes, I am a gun owner. I cherish the right to own semi automatic weapons that can kill large varmints, or intruders. When the larger round pistol clips were outlawed it only made the ones already out there more valuable.

[kb2vxa]

If you want to create a black market for something... ban it.

[NQ6U]

I was a year to year member. I stopped supporting them when they went right wing political. And yes, I am a gun owner.

Same here. I bailed in the early Nineties when the Neil Knox faction took over the NRA board. I think what finally did it was when I saw something in an American Rifleman editorial about how if Bill Clinton was elected, taxes would go up. I wrote them a letter asking how this had anything to do with the NRA's mandate to defend our 2nd Amendment rights and got back a form letter. I let my membership lapse that year.

[KC2UGV]

If you want to create a black market for something... ban it.

So, we should just make crack, heroin, and meth legal...

[NQ6U]

So, we should just make crack, heroin, and meth legal...

Legal, taxed and regulated, yes.

[KC2UGV]

Legal, taxed and regulated, yes.

Uh huh...

[KG4CGC]

So, we should just make crack, heroin, and meth legal...
Apparently it would be safer than Darvocet™

[NQ6U]

Apparently it would be safer than Darvocet™

Or, for that matter, Vioxx.