Category: Gun Rights Organizations

A news dump, because sometimes there’s more news than you can talk about:

This is a great example of why smart guns aren’t such a hot idea. There might be times when I was someone who isn’t me to use my gun.

Rural Democrats in Minnesota squeezed.

3D Printers are close to changing the ballgame.

Governor Quinn in Illinois is very unpopular, so much so that he may draw a primary challenger.

We are united. He’s right. I was young when we had the last fight, but even I remember a lot of hunters being pretty vocal that we’d be better off without those kinds of guns making us look bad; making us look like Rambo. Notice also that this time, Ruger and Smith & Wesson are fighting with us.

The Chicago Tribune doesn’t know their ass from a sling mount.

Larry Correia on Mike Huckabee.

Obama spins off Obama for America as a 501(c)(4) to help push his second term agenda, and we all know what that entails. The OFA machine beat Mitt Romney, and he’s counting on it beating NRA too.

Maryland is next:

The Maryland Legislature is being asked to consider a broad range of gun control proposals. The Governor claims he will have an easy road to banning anything he determines to be an “Assault Weapon” and to force fingerprinting and registration of all buyers in the state. He will ban magazines holding more than ten rounds and force expensive training requirements on those who would purchase and own firearms.

The goal in Maryland is simple: make the ownership and use of firearms so expensive and so onerous that people will not bother to exercise their right. Gun Controller’s in this state look to take a big bite today, and then continue to chip away at our rights every chance they get. Their goal is the eventual destruction of the right through implementation of impractical laws, expensive training and onerous regulation. O’Malley wants to eventually force you to turn in your guns, just like they will in New York.

You can follow Maryland Shall Issue here. Let’s hold them at New York.

NRA Favorability is 54%, whereas Obama’s is 53%. For unfavorables, the number is 38% having an unfavorable view of NRA, compared to Obama’s 41% unfavorables.

h/t Instapundit

NRA surpasses 2 million “Likes” on Facebook.

Well, it would seem the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee wants to capitalize on the great popularity of what was, a few weeks ago, considered a losing issue for Democrats. Time to cash in on gun control, for the children. From a reader via e-mail:

Breaking Washington Post Headline: “NRA planning ‘the fight of the century’” [NAME] – Today, we have the momentum to take monumental steps toward reducing gun violence.

But the NRA and their army of lobbyists are working to tear any proposal to shreds. If we don’t stand up to the NRA immediately, they will destroy our chance to stop gun brutality. But the window of opportunity is so small that I need you to act right now so it doesn’t slip away.

Sign the petition and denounce the NRA immediately. Stand with Democrats who want to reduce gun violence. Let’s get 100,000 signatures by midnight tonight!

The NRA will do anything to demolish common-sense gun laws. They even released a repulsive ad that calls President Obama an “elitist hypocrite,” and uses his children as political pawns.

It looks like a means to collect names. My guess is they will then tag that person as interested in gun control as a topic, and use that to solicit donors.

I bought some memory a few weeks ago that had a rebate associated with it. The rebate came on one of those Visa gift cards. It’s only $20, and I always hate how they get you with the little bit left on the card. One thing you can do is donate to your favorite gun rights organization, and that way you can take off what’s on the card with a clean amount. I sent mine to NRA-ILA. I was pretty impressed with the performance in Illinois. That had a whole lot to do with Illinoisans standing up, but I was told by the lobbyist in Illinois that the office Fairfax lent more support to the effort than they have been given credit for, and they basically put whatever resources were necessary at their lobbysts’ disposal. I’m sure the performance could have been repeated in New York if it weren’t for shady back-room dealing on the part of the Governor, where gun owners had little input.

Now it looks like a cool quarter million:

Politico reported membership had grown by more than 100,000 five days ago. The NRA says that when Politico reported the story, membership was close to 200,000, but the number has drastically grown in just five days. The association now has over 4.25 million members, but the NRA says that number is always fluctuating as memberships expire and new members join.

We’ve been calling family and getting them signed up or current. Multiply that by millions of households across the country, and this is what you’re getting. Also, word hasn’t even really gotten out yet about what happened in New York, and how it happened.

NRA seems pretty confident they can stop the worst of what’s coming at us, or at least David Keene is. I would not let this lull us into any complacency. We still have a fight ahead of us, and numbers like what we’re seeing out of some recent polls are concerning. If Obama piles on, these numbers are bound to shift more. Complacency is our worst enemy. Like many of us gun bloggers have been saying, if every person panic buying guns and ammo also wrote their reps, we’d have nothing to worry about. But they won’t, so those of us willing to do something have to make up for those who won’t. They can’t be given any victory, because any victory given will be used to build upon the next victory when they get their next pretext. The snowball will begin to roll. A lot of people will ask why we just won’t be reasonable, well, because in politics, being reasonable is what gets you squashed.

Dave Hardy notes that this WaPo article is balanced, and factually largely correct. Dave has been in this fight since nearly the beginning, so he’s who I generally turn to for stories on things which happened before my time (which was most of it).

So I was taking to a coworker today, who is a dues paying member of our cause. He’s busy trying to make sure all his family members are signed up for NRA, or current with their membership. He just signed up his wife, whose family escaped Nazi occupied France and sought refuge in Latin America, along with many other Jews.

“You should get a junior NRA membership for [the boy]” I noted, thinking not much of it.*

So I came home and told Bitter our efforts, and she admonishes me for my sexism almost immediately. He has an older daughter, and why did I not think of her? I have to admit my fault here. I may have been raised by northeastern Democratic parents, but in my cultural upbringing, guns were a boy thing. I guess it took an Oklahoma native to point that out to me. So don’t discount members based on your biases. I guess that’s my lesson for tonight.

* There is a junior membership there if you look carefully at the tabs.