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Showing Original Post only (View all)The NRA was once the good guy. [View all]
In the 1920s
The National Revolver Association, which was part of the NRA, proposed requiring a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Other aspects of the NRAs legislation: adding five years prison time if a gun was used in a crime, prohibiting the sale of a gun to a non-citizen, imposing a one-day waiting period before a purchaser could take possession of a gun, and opening records of gun sales to police. Nine states adopted the legislation.
The National Revolver Association, which was part of the NRA, proposed requiring a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Other aspects of the NRAs legislation: adding five years prison time if a gun was used in a crime, prohibiting the sale of a gun to a non-citizen, imposing a one-day waiting period before a purchaser could take possession of a gun, and opening records of gun sales to police. Nine states adopted the legislation.
I have told gunners for years that they are the ones best suited to write gun laws. Of course it fell on hostile ears. We will have sensible gun laws, laws the will reduce the number and kind of guns in circulation to a small fraction of what we have today. Perhaps not in my lifetime, but it will come and the gunners aren't going to be happy.
That's what happens when those who love a thing let others regulate it for them.
A History of the NRA
https://hickoryrecord.com/news/history-of-the-nra/collection_772d86f7-a01a-586a-abc8-930bcaa6d4f3.html#1
A short easy read and well worth the few minutes to better know who we are dealing with.
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One thing about championing deregulation of semi auto rifles & extended magazines...
Bucky
Jun 2021
#39
If its reasons for supporting those policies were racist and classist, does that still make it "the
WhiskeyGrinder
Jun 2021
#3
Lotta experts on this thread. Maybe it's something they already knew and don't feel like it needs
WhiskeyGrinder
Jun 2021
#25
What you predict will happen would require roughly 80% to 90% of firearms to be confiscated.
Dial H For Hero
Jun 2021
#4
The Czech Republic would. Check out this picture of a typical Czech gun shop:
Dial H For Hero
Jun 2021
#9
Czech Republic, LMAO. And they have tougher requirements than most rube red states.
Hoyt
Jun 2021
#10
Many of their laws are looser than those we have at the national level.
Dial H For Hero
Jun 2021
#12
Do you personally meet all these qualifications? How many US gun owners would?
Beastly Boy
Jun 2021
#11
I could easily meet those requirements. I suspect most (certainly not all) American gun owners
Dial H For Hero
Jun 2021
#13
Really? I can drive down to the local Walmart parking lot and buy a gun from some guy
AndyS
Jun 2021
#22
Such a purchase is not legal in Colorado (where I live) or in California, New Mexico, New Mexico,
Dial H For Hero
Jun 2021
#24
I repeat; some parking lot, two strangers, no background check and no records kept.
AndyS
Jun 2021
#26
Can you articulate which Czech gun laws are less restricted than ours and in what?
Beastly Boy
Jun 2021
#31
Silencers being sold over the counter and "shall issue" at the national level.
Dial H For Hero
Jun 2021
#52
Silencers require license and registration. "Shall issue" is preceded by rigorous vetting and
Beastly Boy
Jun 2021
#54
I would speculate there are more than 2% of gun owners who are under 18 yo.
Beastly Boy
Jun 2021
#37
Happened in Australia. Gunners there didn't like either. Makes my heart bleed yellow water . . .
AndyS
Jun 2021
#27
Australia isn't the US. If the US actually attempts to confiscate the majority of fireams held in
Dial H For Hero
Jun 2021
#29
I think a violent response to the government attempting to confiscate 80% of guns would be
Dial H For Hero
Jun 2021
#55
How does my invitation for you to mock me if my prediction is wrong justify your suggestion that I
Dial H For Hero
Jun 2021
#57
No NRA gun nut I know would never turn in their guns. They would die first. nt
USALiberal
Jun 2021
#40
NRA Leadership in recent years-- John Bolton, Bob Barr, Grover Norquist, Ted Nugent,
Hoyt
Jun 2021
#7
I agree. Ironically enough, had the '94 AWB not been passed, the number of "assault weapons"
Dial H For Hero
Jun 2021
#16
In my mind, the NRA completed its transformation from a gun safety organization to a
Chainfire
Jun 2021
#17
I think what we learned in recent years is the NRA exists to enrich their management
Johonny
Jun 2021
#48
When I was a kid the NRA meant gun safety. And the Southern Baptist convention had liberal churches
GulfCoast66
Jun 2021
#49