NRA solicitation email

"I’m talking about an actual ban on the firearms you currently own, door-to-door confiscation of those firearms, and you facing actual jail time if you fail to comply."

IMO, the proposed reinterpretation of braces on pistols, and turning them into short barreled rifles could fulfill all of the above.

https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...for-firearms-with-attached-stabilizing-braces

Bidet's position on "assault rifles" rifles would come very close to fulfilling all the above, depending on how it was done.

Am certainly not a fan of NRA fund raising, which is extremely obnoxious, but am a life time member and shudder to think where we would be without them. Already being a life member, i simply throw out everything else from them (except American Rifleman magazine).
 
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Bob Willman said:
I must admit that some of the stuff I have heard about the NRA troubles me. The problem I have is that I do not know what/who to believe. The charges leveled by officials in New York I take with a grain of salt because I am pretty sure of their ultimate goal. The NRA has been quiet as I suspect they should be until the court decides. I still believe in the saying, "Innocent until proven guilty." which is the bedrock of our judicial system. I think that many are rushing to judgment based on information that may not be credible. I am still debating about renewing my Golden Eagle membership for the coming year. I still would like to believe that the NRA is our best bet for progress on a national scale.
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I'm sure much of it is liberal BS, and suckers will believe it and run with it on this forum. Does the NRA have issues? Perhaps they do; however, if you like your firearms, they are the only real protection from the Democrats.
 
I'm sure much of it is liberal BS, and suckers will believe it and run with it on this forum. Does the NRA have issues? Perhaps they do; however, if you like your firearms, they are the only real protection from the Democrats.
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Ironically Democrats can sure sell some guns and ammo.
 
I understand you guys hate the NRA.

I mailed them a check for $1000. I support the NRA! No Doubt.

I am also not in anyway associated with the NRA. I just support gun ownership.
 
Porsche911 said:
I support the NRA and just gave them $10,000.
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Porsche911 said:
I understand you guys hate the NRA.

I mailed them a check for $1000. I support the NRA! No Doubt.

I am also not in anyway associated with the NRA. I just support gun ownership.
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So you have now donated $11,000 to the NRA?

Where did you get the idea that we all hate the NRA? A lot of us are members. I'm a life member. I think I speak for most NRA members in saying that we don't hate the NRA ... but we do hate that Wayne LaPierre has been using the NRA as a personal piggy bank for himself and some of his close friends, and we hate what LaPierre has done to the NRA.

If LaPierre and the board of directors had been running a squeaky clean operation, the AG of New York State would have no case.
 
I’m talking about an actual ban on the firearms you currently own, door-to-door confiscation of those firearms, and you facing actual jail time if you fail to comply.
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I am a recreational and sometimes competitive shooter. I keep a pistol for self-defense. Total bans and forced confiscations are such an extremely unlikely scenario. I shake my head and roll my eyes at the fictional, dystopian unarmed future society created by the NRA marketing department. I am not arming myself to wage battle against the government, so this solicitation strategy does not appeal to me.
 
When the NFA was enacted, people got to keep their tommy guns. They just needed to transfer them to people that had the tax stamp if they wanted to sell or give them away.

If your “arm brace” is determined to be a “crappy buttstock” then you must take it off and enjoy your ar pistol. Or, you can install a longer barrel and make it a rifle with a crappy buttstock. Heck, may as well put a decent buttstock on it.

I’m an old man. To me, if it looks like a SBR, don’t be surprised if some calls you on rule breaking. If it looks like a sawed off shotgun, it’s likely you might someday get called on it, too. Everyone knows these items are following loopholes. No one is coming to take ‘em, they just have to follow new regulations.

I was an NRA member. Our skeet club was appropriated as a town expanded an airport. Under the law as I understand it, the town was supposed to assist us in finding land to replace the facility. I called the NRA to help us. No. They don’t have lawyers to help 300 members with their range. Do I want to re-up my membership, while I’m on the phone? Uh…. No.
 
gbclarkson said:
Total bans and forced confiscations are such an extremely unlikely scenario. I shake my head and roll my eyes at the fictional, dystopian unarmed future society created by the NRA marketing department.
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As I said above, the NRA does paint a worst case scenario at times, but magazines over 10 rounds have ALREADY been banned in California, including magazines that were formerly grandfathered. This is just a trial balloon for banning "assault weapons". Count on it.

And recall the wild cheers of the crowd at the Democratic debates in 2020 when Beto O'Rourke said:

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"When the NFA was enacted, people got to keep their tommy guns. They just needed to transfer them to people that had the tax stamp if they wanted to sell or give them away."

Ahh so what is the jail term for possession of unregistered mg now? Gotta believe there are a lot of places where they will more than bust down your door and arrest you for having an unregistered mg. And things have changed quite a bit since then. The point wasn't what a person could do to make a firearm compliant with a new law or interpretation of a law, but what the law could do to make you compliant.
 
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natman said:
As I said above, the NRA does paint a worst case scenario at times, but magazines over 10 rounds have ALREADY been banned in California, including magazines that were formerly grandfathered. This is just a trial balloon for banning "assault weapons". Count on it.

And recall the wild cheers of the crowd at the Democratic debates in 2020 when Beto O'Rourke said:

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Some people just don't get it.
 
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