Contact the NRA

[Gman]

Please, don't hold back. Tell me how you really feel. You don't know enough about me to make the claims you just made, but please, if it makes you feel better, fire away.

I've contacted my Congress critters numerous times. I have yet to get a personal response. What I do get is added to their email list. If you think that they handle, see, read any personal contacts, you're living in a dream. This includes phone, mail, and email. When people show up to get in a Congressperson's face at a town-hall meeting, they just stop having them. It's nice to think that we the people have so much influence, but it just isn't the case. Lobbyists on all sides get more face-time with our politicians than any of us. It's unfortunate, but it's true. The NRA has had sit-down meetings with the President. How about you?

When people showed up to testify at the background check and magazine hearings, how well did that go for 'we the people'? On the other hand, Bloomberg seems to have had quite the influence.

If you're a member of the NRA, I find it perfectly responsible to contact them and let them know how you feel. To think that they have less influence than the people, that's just not the case. For now, we have the best government money can buy.

When millions of armed Americans show up in DC, then you'll see the power of the people. Until then, this is a game to the politicians.

[OtterbatHellcat]

Hell, at least you guys are still posting.

[Gman]

The media thinks the NRA are still influential...and still the bad guys;
Reuters: NRA opposes outright U.S. ban on bump stocks used by Las Vegas killer

The powerful U.S. gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, said on Sunday it would oppose an outright ban on bump-stock devices that the killer in the Las Vegas massacre of 58 people used to turn rifles into automatic weapons and strafe a crowd with bursts of sustained gunfire.

The NRA, which has seldom embraced new firearms-control measures, stunned gun control advocates last week when it issued a statement voicing willingness to support a restriction on bump stocks.

On Sunday, the organization said it was open to regulation but opposed any legislation banning the devices.

"We don't believe that bans have ever worked on anything. What we have said has been very clear - that if something transfers a semiautomatic to function like a fully automatic, then it ought to be regulated differently," Chris Cox, the NRA's chief lobbyist, said on "Fox News Sunday."

I think this is a tactical move because "function" has a very specific definition. The guidance that BATFE operates under allowed bump-stocks under Obama, and they would be the ones performing the 'review'. Others disagree with me, and that's fine. I hope I'm right, but maybe I'm not. I don't have a crystal ball.

[MarkCO]

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/201...stocks-genius/

Worth the read, and why I said what I did in post #2 on the thread.

[Justin]

I have to say, I agree with that author's take on the issue.

[MarkCO]

I have to say, I agree with that author's take on the issue.

Actually, you wrote it first.