Because nra is the largest gun control group in the country.
1. nra supported the ending of the 2nd amendment with F.D.R.'s massive gun ban and registration abomination. Most nra members aren't even aware that the president of the nra testified before congress in 1934 and gave all sorts of support to proposals that effectively ended the 2nd amendment.
http://keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=3247
2. nra supported the massive 1968 ban, mostly because nra was helping domestic manufacturers. Daddy bush voted for this awful ban and nra didn't even count it as an anti gun vote (sad but true).
3. nra had absolutely no problem with it's bill in 1986 AFTER a massive gun ban was added to it. Nra
could have and
SHOULD have pulled support for the poisoned bill, but nra didn't because it doesn't care about full auto owners OR the true meaning of the 2nd amendment. The most amazing knife in our backs: nra's bill was called the "firearm owners PROTECTION act" :barf: We were "protected" from being able to exercise that 2nd amendment that nra doesn't support. It is jaw dropping to hear nra members rationalize and say that "it was worth it because we got rid of some ammo restrictions"
. Many of these people ACTUALLY believe that getting a massive gun ban, entirely banning new full autos, in exchange for a few regulatory relaxations was a good trade! Absolutely incredible. Some people will rationalize anything to make themselves feel better. The nra thinks that was a good trade, and that makes nra a blatant enemy of the 2nd amendment.
4. nra did not oppose the horrible Lautenberg ban. In fact, it appears that nra gave quiet approval. Have any of you ever seen ANY opposition to the lautenberg ban from the nra?
5. As further proof that nra does not actually support the 2nd amendment, they seem to quietly oppose "Vermont/Alaska" carry. NRA won't even mildly support the idea, even though there are a half dozen states where it would pass if they only tried (NH, WY, ID, ND, SD, MT and maybe others). Of course it wouldn't pass instantly but a few more states would be "FREE carry" states in a few years if nra only supported the idea.
6. Current nra board members have been caught voicing support for full auto bans, magazine restrictions, and semi auto bans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGySNLyACE
7. NRA tried to kill the parker case because it doesn't want a supreme court ruling. NRA has never wanted a supreme court ruling because that could end some gun control and then nra's reason for existence would be severely diminished (not to mention fund raising).
8. It is a well known and long standing fact that nra spends over 90 cents in harassment mailings for every dollar it brings in from donations.
9. Nra's top executives make obscene amounts of money. Wayne pulls in almost a million a year.
Some people will get very emotional (angry) simply because I said these things. I've met many many nra members, and I have relatives who are life members. I've heard many times the way many nra members rationalize all of the things I just listed. They rationalize in ways that make themselves feel better about those things. When that doesn't work, they go into denial mode. The more skillful rationalizers will tell you that "all that stuff happened in the past," with the implication that nra wouldn't do those things today. Lautenberg was recent though. They also try to imply that nra's long running support for gun bans/control/registration was "accidental" because they say "nra wasn't politically savvy back then." That is a weak rationalization and they know it.
I may get personally insulted for saying this, but it is my observation and opinion that the establishment LONG ago infiltrated the nra so as to control the "pro gun" side (based on nra's endless support for gun control). It is also my opinion that 99% of the
anti gun groups were started BY establishment sources with establishment money, and are controlled by the establishment. Let's see if certain individuals who love to insult people who believe in conspiracy will allow me to have this opinion
WITHOUT insulting me in some fashion.
I believe that nra is as dangerous as brady or vpc. Some people will sidestep everything I just said and say
"so what gun group IS perfect enough for you?" I believe that GOA and JPFO are our only hope of saving the 2nd amendment and RESTORING it. I believe that we need to be a little angry and a LOT "extreme" (being extreme has been demonized as much as being "racist") in restoring the 2nd amendment. I believe GOA/JPFO keep nra from totally selling us out (the recent "veteran disarmament act" proved that one). I didn't say that it was possible to restore the 2nd amendment and repeal all the illegal gun bans, I only said that our only hope is educating people about history and getting them active enough to support groups like GOA/JPFO that I believe are NOT corrupted by the establishment.