Is The NRA Going Bye-Bye?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

NFW is the NRA going anywhere. Unless we finally have a civil war and split up.

That worked really well last time.

[Rev. Rye]

Ever were the NRA cease to exist, there are others like them (Gun Owners of America) for instance, who would continue, assuming that they aren't crooked, too. I don't know the ins and outs of the problems with what the management there are doing or have done. The NRA in the dim and misty used to be all about shooting skills and hunting safety. Now they're massively political, and I believe needlessly so. If their officers violated the law, they should be held accountable. Does that mean imploding the whole thing? Idunno.

If you're at all curious, here's the story of how the NRA became the guns rights absolutists we know and despise today. Until 1977, the group was actually fairly reasonable, advocating for both gun rights and gun control, hoping to find a happy medium. But by the Vietnam era, the absolutists became more vocal, and during the Revolt at Cincinnatti, they took power and haven't let go since. And now, they're doing shit like:

• Responding to Smith and Wesson announcing new safety measures after Columbine by doxxing their CEO.
  
• Exploiting hurricanes and fear of black looters to sell guns.
  
• Refusing to allow the government to properly digitise their records of who owns what firearm. And, for the record, the reason this is desirable isn't because the New World Order is chomping at the bit to confiscate your guns, but because if a gun is shot during the commission of a crime and Ballistics can prove a match, it's only a matter of looking up who in the area has that model of gun and the suspects get narrowed considerably. It's basically the same thing cops can do for a car, but because of the NRA's paranoia, this has to be done the hard way because they convinced Congress to make it a federal crime to properly digitise it. They were recently allowed to physically scan the files, but they may not be searchable.
  
• Trying to get silencers legalised by framing the issue as one of hearing safety.
  
• Helping a particularly dangerous conspiracy theorist (and by particularly dangerous, I mean "doxxing the families of children who died in school shootings" dangerous) to fabricate conspiracy theories within a day of the Parkland shooting.
  

I really hope this works, though, of course, even if it does, I suspect that there's still going to be more where they came from, but, hopefully, they'll be less powerful and maybe the powerful ones will be less awful (though this may not be a high bar to clear).

[brewer]

This should be interesting. The NRA may not go away, but some of the top officials caught with their hand in the cookie jar might. We'll have to wait and see how far down the ladder the graft goes.

That’s pretty much how I see it. Lobbying groups are notoriously hard to dislodge, but I think some people are likely to get spanked. Dissolution of the NRA is probably a bargaining chip more than an actual goal.

Boru

Well, they might get dissolved in NY state. Not changing their state registry as a "charity" was probably a mistake on their part.

[tackattack]

Trying to stop lobbyists is like trying to bottle greed. If u want to deter something make it 100% legal, transparent and tax it or make it illegal and do constant stings and taps when it gets out of hand like they do with johns and prostitutes.

[no one]

Over trump's dead body!

[Ranjr]

I told y'all Trump was coming for your guns.  Obama can't help you now.

[Fireball]

I told y'all Trump was coming for your guns.  Obama can't help you now.

Except that the chump is sucking the NRA's rifle barrels. Obama was all over reducing the possession of firearms and got zit point shit done about it in 8 years. In the meantime, a lot of gun people were buying up ammunition in an expectation of no longer being able to purchase it. I only "kill" paper, as mentioned above. I was unable to purchase ammunition for a couple of years because I didn't get to the store in time. People are fucking stupid, bottom line. BTW, I didn't suffer mentally because I couldn't buy ammunition. I have way more activities on my plate. 

[Ranjr]

I told y'all Trump was coming for your guns.  Obama can't help you now.

Except that the chump is sucking the NRA's rifle barrels. Obama was all over reducing the possession of firearms and got zit point shit done about it in 8 years. In the meantime, a lot of gun people were buying up ammunition in an expectation of no longer being able to purchase it. I only "kill" paper, as mentioned above. I was unable to purchase ammunition for a couple of years because I didn't get to the store in time. People are fucking stupid, bottom line. BTW, I didn't suffer mentally because I couldn't buy ammunition. I have way more activities on my plate. 

Sure he's talking, but what happens on his watch is his doing.  I'm a results guy, not a word counter.  Also, irony.

[Anomalocaris]

Over trump's dead body!

Over how many times?

[Pat Mustard]

Dream on.

Any idiot with a license to.practice can file a lawsuit against almost anyone for almost anything....

It takes a jury of 12 to agree with whatever lunatic shit he cooks up to get a judgement in his favor....

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This is just a political stunt by a goat fucking shyster...

And olb shows his true colours, singing the Gosudarstvennyy Gimn Sovetskogo Soyuza all the while.