You took the words right out of my mouth.
Came here to say this but you beat me to it.
Same. "We're going to give it all away but on our own timeline and under our own conditions" is not exactly what gun owners want in an advocate.
Just for the benefit of those members who may not be as familiar with the NRA's treachery as we are, here are some of the highlights off the top of my head:
- They supported the National Firearms Act of 1934.
- They supported Dodd's Gun Control Act of 1968. These two basically created the entire federal firearms regulatory system that we suffer under today.
- They wrote a "compromise" version of the deceitfully named "Cop-Killer" Bullet ban which was passed.
- They agreed to not oppose the also deceitfully named Undetectable Firearms Act after lawmakers raised the amount of steel required in a gun not to be banned to a level that excluded currently (at the time) available firearms. This may come back to haunt gun owners with the advent of 3D printed firearms.
- They discouraged opposition to the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, which likely would have succeeded according to many real gun rights advocates at the time, because it would cost votes on Brady.
- They then turned around and supported the Brady Act, which traitorous Republicans had rushed to rewrite and pass through the Senate in an emergency session just before Thanksgiving when most Senators were already gone for the holiday. Afterward, NRA went around pronouncing Brady to be a major victory for gun rights.
- Over the years they've consistently worked very hard to defeat many excellent pro-gun candidates, and even unseat sitting legislators with excellent pro-gun records in favor of candidates that are MUCH worse.
- They consistently give deceptively hig grades to lawmakers who are actually only mediocre, and often outright terrible on 2nr Amendment issues, and give deceptively lower grades to lawmakers who are excellent.
That's just a few higlight from memory.
