The NRAs last tweet tells you everything you need to know about whats wrong with American gun laws
Source: Think Progress
As is their practice in the wake of a mass shooting, the National Rifle Associations social media accounts have gone dark. Since the horrific shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada that left 59 people dead and over 500 injured, there has been nothing from @NRA or associated accounts like @NRATV, @NRAblog, and @NRAILA.
The most recent tweet from any NRA-affliated Twitter account appears to be from @AmericanHunter, the official journal of the National Rifle Association, for hunters and shooters, posted just hours before the shooting.
The FN SCAR 17S is a slightly modified version of the rifle currently used by U.S. Special Operations Command, the FN MK 17. Its manufacturer touts the weapons long-range accuracy, downrange power, exceptional reliability. But even the manufacturers excitement over this weapon, which was designed for the military to kill people, pales in comparison to the NRA.
In an NRA-produced video, American Hunter managing editor Jon Draper is absolutely giddy about massive power of the FN SCAR 17S. Draper traveled to the test range of the manufacturer, FN, where he spoke to Jay Recto, the assault weapons manager. After being taken through some of the rifles features by Recto, a giddy Draper declares: Literally, this is the same rifle that the military gets without the full auto happy switch. Thats fantastic!
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/nra-everything-wrong-gun-laws-92581dac6706/
I hate the NRA
groundloop
(11,486 posts)PSPS
(13,512 posts)mobeau69
(11,074 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)It's the topic of conversation prior to the beginning of meetings, after the meetings are over, and at some point during nearly every lunch conversation. They were remarkably quiet yesterday however. I like golf, but in my experience even the most rabid golfer doesn't assume that everyone else wants to talk about golf all the time. Did I mention they're all republicans?
Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)1) 1/3 General insecurities that are somehow fulfilled by guns in the way a binky calms an infant
2) They are toys/collectables
3) The perverse right wing brainwashing has ginned up people who fall for it that gun ownership makes you less elite, it is primary to the culture war that the simpletons get sucked in to
SergeStorms
(18,882 posts)The NRA is the single most dangerous organization in the United States, in my opinion.
When the second amendment was written a "weapon of mass destruction" was a 10 lb. cannon. Not exactly something you could carry around with you. Our forefathers had no idea how far weapons technology would progress, and if they had they sure as hell would have regulated them! Our government's unwillingness to reign in gun manufacturers and gun "enthusiasts" desire for more powerful and deadly weapons is beyond contempt. This unwillingness can be laid at one organization's doorstep: The NRA.
msongs
(67,193 posts)mjvpi
(1,384 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)yeah, that's a fucking happy switch all right.
What's the matter dude, your own happy switch quit workin'?
GeoWilliam750
(2,519 posts)Is the line that needs to be on every TV, newspaper, radio, and website.
John1956PA
(2,654 posts)Some of the shoots (in which the competitors take aim at people dressed in zombie costumes and shoot paintballs at them) are billed as "family-friendly" events.
trueblue2007
(17,138 posts)kaotikross
(246 posts)Guns can be fun. I like shooting occasionally. It's can be an enjoyable pastime, however.. full-auto? Mil-spec assault rifles? These aren't little 5 round .22's, or even a hunting rifle. These aren't shotguns for deer hunting.
Gun nuts often like to say, "well what about cars? cars kill people, you gonna outlaw cars"?
I dunno. How long you think you can drive a full-on friggin race car in public before you're stopped by law enforcement? What about military stuff like tanks, is that allowed? You see many cars done up like the Road Warrior when you go to the drive thru? Are regular citizens allowed to drive a police car- even if the badging was removed? Go try to buy one if you think you can- and NOT some Govt surplus junker, either, the full-on pursuit package and everything. You see many civilian-owned military aircraft being flown lately, except old stuff like bi-planes or stuff at airshows?
GReedDiamond
(5,299 posts)rockfordfile
(8,682 posts)Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)but it is taking Congress way to long to send me my Letters of Marque and Reprisal.
sdfernando
(4,896 posts)Yeah, I know they don't exactly fit the profile but I'd like to see it happen anyway.