The NRA. Remember what that stands for? Anyone? Anyone?

[sportage]

The NRA.
FYI, The national "Rifle" Association.
Because originally, it was all about "rifles".
Rifles and only rifles.
Everyone can relate to rifles.
Rifles... used for hunting, protection, sport, collecting, and hobby.
The name says it all. The reason the association was originally created.
But no more.

Today, the NRA has little to do with "rifles".
They own politicians, political parties, they write law, they pass law, they enact law.
And they have no accountability. Not to party, not to law, not to constitution, not to the electorate.
And there lies the absurdity of it all.

 

[HomerJS]

Anyone remember the impetus for the last time the NRA backed gun legislation?

 

[master_shake_]

2003

 

[MongGrel]

Former Marines started it to begin with I believe, why the NRA emblem resembles the USMC emblem a lot.

It has strayed off course a bit over time.

 

[Atreus21]

The NRA.
FYI, The national "Rifle" Association.
Because originally, it was all about "rifles".
Rifles and only rifles.
Everyone can relate to rifles.
Rifles... used for hunting, protection, sport, collecting, and hobby.
The name says it all. The reason the association was originally created.
But no more.

Today, the NRA has little to do with "rifles".
They own politicians, political parties, they write law, they pass law, they enact law.
And they have no accountability. Not to party, not to law, not to constitution, not to the electorate.
And there lies the absurdity of it all.

Lobbyists. Welcome to politics.

 

[HomerJS]

2003

Try again. NRA lobbied to increase gun rights in 2003.

Way earlier in time and what brought it on?

 

[Brainonska511]

I await your thread on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and any number of other things that are not quite what they say they are.

 

[master_shake_]

Try again. NRA lobbied to increase gun rights in 2003.

Way earlier in time and what brought it on?

i honestly don't even understand your question.

Anyone remember the impetus for the last time the NRA backed gun legislation?

are you asking when was the last time they backed gun legislation or the force that makes something happen or happen more quickly they used the last time the NRA backed gun legislation?

 

[sandorski]

The NRA are little more than Marketers and Lobbyists for the Gun Manufacturers these days.

 

[SparkyJJO]

They own politicians

Maybe

political parties

No they don't

they write law

No they don't

they pass law

No they don't

they enact law.

And no they don't.

And they have no accountability. Not to party, not to law, not to constitution, not to the electorate.

What are you talking about?

And there lies the absurdity of it all.

No, the absurdity is that you either came up with this nonsense or believe it.

Just because the name has "rifle" in it doesn't mean they are now for some reason limited to just rifles and not also pistols.

Regardless, a certain group of people, primarily of a particular party, keep trying to take away various rifles from the citizenry. While they themselves are surrounded by guys with rifles, I might add. Hypocrites.

 

[HTFOff]

Ban the NRA!

 

[michal1980]

And here I thought democrats were all for unions. I guess its only unions of people democrats agree with.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

Posting in a sportage meltdown thread.

 

[cbrunny]

And here I thought democrats were all for unions. I guess its only unions of people democrats agree with.

And here I thought republicans were all against unions. I guess its only unions of people republicans disagree with.

 

[PokerGuy]

The NRA is one of the only things standing between the people and idiot lefties taking away constitutional rights. Thank goodness for them. It's why everyone should become a member, whether or not they own guns.

 

[KB]

I am not a big NRA fan, but getting mad at an organization just because of their name doesn't match their mission doesn't make sense.

"When the National Rifle Association was officially incorporated on November 16, 1871,[1] its primary goal was to "promote and encourage rifle shooting on a scientific basis."

It makes sense that they would choose to put Rifles in their name as few people could afford pistols and they were highly inaccurate, so training for marksmanship with them didn't make sense.


Its very common for organizations to change focus as the times change. Rifles are no longer the primary arm most people own like they were in 1871.

"In 1934, the National Rifle Association created a Legislative Affairs Division to work officially on Second Amendment issues.[45]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association#1934_-_present
This change in NRA purpose was largely the result of attacks on the Second Amendment in the form of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act. No other organization was willing to fight for the Second amendment so they believed they had to. The more aptly named Second Amendment Foundation wasn't formed until 1974 and would have been of no help in 1934.

 

[Artdeco]

Heh, Sportage finds a problem with one group's name because he doesn't agree with them, sorry dude, fail.

 

[Artdeco]

Sportage, have you seen the Share the Safety program?

About time the NRA gave back a little

https://sharethesafety.org

 

[Moonbeam]

Isn't it the Nazi Republican Army?

 

[sm625]

I just canceled my Car and Driver subscription because one of the vehicles that made the front cover was not a car but a truck. Damn them...

 

[Artdeco]

Isn't it the Nazi Republican Army?

Ahhh, moonbeam, you're slowing down, surely you can come up with something better than that.

Perhaps if we were to move all the non Hispanic/black darker people here:

 

[thraashman]

Anyone remember the impetus for the last time the NRA backed gun legislation?

You mean when in the 60's black people took up arms to protect their voting rights and the NRA subsequently heavily backed gun control measures? I think we all know that the terrorist organization known as the NRA is primarily a white supremacist organization.

 

[Moonbeam]

Ahhh, moonbeam, you're slowing down, surely you can come up with something better than that.

Perhaps if we were to move all the non Hispanic/black darker people here:

You mean we're not talking about a bunch of fascist gun toting idiots and the party they cleave to when we're talking NRA.?

 

[blankslate]

It's actually NWA National Wetod Association.


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[Artdeco]

You mean we're not talking about a bunch of fascist gun toting idiots and the party they cleave to when we're talking NRA.?

I thought we were talking about discriminating against brown skinned souls, evidently that's what the cool kids are doing this week.

The internment camps were what, congress?

Crap, an executive order from a Democratic POTUS...

Did you know we did the same thing to Germans?