Anonymous wrote:The NRA is irrelevant. And who needs them with you have lawmakers so enthralled with guns that they send Christmas cards with their children holding assault rifles. Who needs the NRA when you have 2A MAGA folks? Ma Freedum!

Tom Massie had the best Christmas card ever!

Totally jelly of that M60E-4 he’s got

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Anonymous wrote:And, in other news.....

The ban in California on "assault rifles" was overturned.

Probably needs another thread, but won’t survive the 9th Circuit. Cites Scalia’s Heller opinion in exactly the opposite way its ever been interpreted before.

Nope, FAIL.

Scalia stated correctly in the majority opinion in Heller that guns “in common use” are protected by the second amendment. Bruen further affirmed this. The 9th doesn’t want yet another case going before the USSC and further ratcheting up the standard.

The principal cited here is a very simple one - that guns in common use are Constitutionally protected. And there is literally NO gun that is MORE common in America than the AR15 rifle and other similar rifles. There is one AR15 type rifle for every five people in this country. It not only THE most common type of gun, it’s one of the most common devices in this country. There are more AR15 type rifles in America than there are microwave ovens. Think about that while you’re standing in your kitchen reading this.

Anonymous wrote:Personally, I would like the right to send my kids to school without fear of a mass shooting incident.

The NRA is not helping with that freedom.

Went to school a good number of years ago but between teachers, students and parents there were always dozens of guns in the school parking lot. Yet no mass school shootings occurred.

Wonder what made the guns become so violent? Oh wait, it is the moral decay and lack of mental health care in this country that are the real problems.

Anonymous wrote:Personally, I would like the right to send my kids to school without fear of a mass shooting incident.

The NRA is not helping with that freedom.

+1 I don’t think we’re going to get a repudiation of the NRA from their former members, but I think many will distance themselves quietly. There really are only so many little kids you can hear about getting effectively exploded before you have to reconsider your support.

And Russia has different priorities right now.

Personally, I would like the right to send my kids to school without fear of a mass shooting incident.

The NRA is not helping with that freedom.

The NRA is irrelevant. And who needs them with you have lawmakers so enthralled with guns that they send Christmas cards with their children holding assault rifles. Who needs the NRA when you have 2A MAGA folks? Ma Freedum!

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Anonymous wrote:And, in other news.....

The ban in California on "assault rifles" was overturned.

Probably needs another thread, but won’t survive the 9th Circuit. Cites Scalia’s Heller opinion in exactly the opposite way its ever been interpreted before.

I am so thankful for people like you who provide a quick legal reassurance on threads like this! I don't understand most of it, but I love getting the updates. So thank you! I appreciate you!

The NRA, like unions, once had a vital place in America. But like unions the NRA has done its job.

Children are no longer forced to work long hours for low wages. People no longer live in company towns, etc. Now all unions do is force manufacturing to right to work states at best and usually result in more jobs going overseas.

We now have constitutional carry in the majority of states. Strong and growing precedent via Supreme Court decisions that as was intended by the founding fathers the right to keep and bear arms is an individual one.

Yes, we must always remain vigilant so that workers are treated fairly and that the most important amendment remains intact. But the NRA needs to find new leadership that can carry out a broader mandate to include more support for getting law abiding gun owners more skilled in the use of their weapons through more and better ranges.

Perhaps a visit to Switzerland to learn from them. Or at a minimum educate people on how guns can bring a society together - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wnBDK-QNZkM

“The NRA's most recent tax return reveals dramatic declines along almost every conceivable metric: revenue, assets, member dues, lobbying, and political spending — with conversely sharp increases in legal costs and deficits.

2022 was the fourth year in a row that revenue fell, marking its weakest fundraising year since at least 2008.

Membership dues are at all-time lows.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-nra-is-at-rock-bottomand-15-years-of-tax-filings-tell-the-story?ref=home?ref=home

Anonymous wrote:And, in other news.....

The ban in California on "assault rifles" was overturned.

Probably needs another thread, but won’t survive the 9th Circuit. Cites Scalia’s Heller opinion in exactly the opposite way its ever been interpreted before.

And, in other news.....

The ban in California on "assault rifles" was overturned.

Good. Hold them accountable.

Get 'em, Tish!

Anonymous wrote:Update:

Good. Take them down.

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