Membership is declining at the gun right’s group as it also faces financial difficulties. Critics say the future looks bleak.
Membership is declining at the gun right’s group as it also faces financial difficulties. Critics say the future looks bleak.
They aren’t a gun rights organization. They aren’t even a manufacturer’s organization. They are Republican shills, first, last, and always.
I was finally convinced they had abandoned gun owners when they endorsed Mitt Romney in 2012. When a gun rights organization openly endorses the signer of a gun ban, there is something deeply wrong.
Did they endorse Reagan, too? He signed a gun ban.
That was slightly before my time, but yes, they did endorse Reagan in 1980 and 1984, and Reagan had signed the Mulford Act 13 years earlier. The Mulford act wasn’t a gun ban per se; it prohibited carry of loaded firearms without a permit.
Reagan went on to support the Brady Bill and the 1994 AWB after his presidency. Reagan also banned carry in national parks. Clinton and 2 Bushes didn’t undo that mistake; Obama fixed it in his first month in office.
But I digress: the NRA has done far more for the Republican Party than it has done for gun rights.
It’s the same story with evangelical groups like Focus on the Family: They’re just shills for Republicans, and are actively hurting their religion in the process.