The NRA and Gun Manufacturers

The NRA has been with us for 145 years. Its stated purpose is to advocate for 2^nd Amendment rights (I have found few folk have actually read that amendment and consistently misinterpret it. E.d.) It has a lot of members for support but given even with all those members, about 1% of the population, how does it have so much political clout? An answer – money; for the last 20 years they have been in cahoots with the $12 billion a year gun industry. Their crowning moment was in 2005 when congress, after a lot of lobbying, approved a bill that gave gun makers and distributers a deal of immunity from liability ins lawsuits related to gun violence in this country. It has been “Katie bar the door” ever since. Even though 74% of NRA members support mandatory background checks for all gun buys the NRA opposes that.

What that means to me is that the NRA leadership is out of touch with its own members and in bed with the gun manufacturers and distributors leading their head dude, La Pierre to say idiotic things like, “The only thing that stops a bad guy is a good guy with a gun.”

Most folk in this country belief we should under the 2^nd amendment be able to have guns for hunting etc. (2^nd Amendment is more about militia than hunting if you check.) But we should have safeguards in place and no hunter should need an assault weapon to shoot game; if they are that bad of a shot, they shouldn’t hunt.

But as it is the NRA and gun makers, especially MidwayUSA, who sell those huge capacity magazine clips sway opinion unduly. They have given the NRA $7.7 million since 1992. As I said, it’s about the money.

For more on this go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/nra-gun-control-firearms-industry-ties_n_2434142.html?igoogle=1

Good luck Joe Biden and your committee.