Who does the NRA work for?

by Idéfix Fri Jan 11, 2013 3:34 am

Throughout its 142-year history, the National Rifle Association has portrayed itself as an advocate for the individual gun owner’s Second Amendment rights. ... In the last two decades, however, the deep-pocketed NRA has increasingly relied on the support of another constituency: the $12-billion-a-year gun industry, made up of manufacturers and sellers of firearms, ammunition and related wares. ...

Is the nation’s most potent gun lobby mainly looking out for its base constituency, the estimated 80 million Americans who own a firearm? Or is it acting on behalf of those that make and sell those guns?

According to a 2012 poll conducted by GOP pollster Frank Luntz for Mayors Against Illegal Guns, 74 percent of NRA members support mandatory background checks for all gun purchases, a position that the NRA has stridently opposed. “There’s a big difference between the NRA’s rank and file and the NRA’s Washington lobbyists, who live and breathe for a different purpose,” Mark Glaze, the executive director of the gun control group, said. ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/nra-gun-control-firearms-industry-ties_n_2434142.html

by Marathadi-Saamiyaar Fri Jan 11, 2013 3:52 am

it is time to ban ALL guns except the tup - click - tup-click types with no more than 5 rounds, and non-revolvers can only be a single load rifles.

All bullets should be tracked and controlled.

England has 6 guns per 100 while it is 88/100 in the US.

Guns dont kill people, but crazies do....and in a country full of crazies (some 20% of adults take anti-depressants) it should be either guns or crazies seen.

Who does the NRA work for?

Who does the NRA work for?

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