NEWTOWN, Conn – -(Ammoland.com)- It has been brought to our attention that individuals working directly for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence may be seeking to visit FFLs to engage with owners or employees in order to better understand the “Gun Culture.”
NSSF strongly advises that if you or your employees are approached in person, by phone, over email or via social media that you decline to participate in any fact-finding visit or discussion.
The Brady Campaign on its website states: “Brady is leading the fight to change the gun industry and force it to reform by holding gun companies accountable to victims in the courts, and staging protests to challenge ‘bad apple’ gun dealers at their doorsteps.”
Make no mistake, no matter how friendly the approach, the Brady Campaign does not have your best interests in mind.
To the contrary, the campaign has a long history of misstating facts, misleading the public, lobbying policy makers to enact punishing legislation and filing baseless lawsuits against members of our industry. You will not be able to affect the Brady Campaign’s course of action or reach any real mutual agreement. Anything you say could be used against your business and the industry as a whole.
Again, if you are contacted by the Brady Campaign, please decline participation. Do so firmly, but politely. Do not get into an argument or attempt to dispute any “facts” they may present. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
About NSSF The National Shooting Sports Foundation is the trade association for the firearms industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of more than 6,000 manufacturers, distributors, firearms retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen’s organizations and publishers. For more information, log on to www.nssf.org.
First of all the Brady campaign is an insult to the man Jim Brady. It was his wife, the pig called Sarah, that started it with the help of other anti Americans. Those organizations took advantage of the man after he was wounded in the attempt to kill President Reagan. Typically liberal AH’s jumping on a tragic incident but then the democrats and liberals never had any class anyway.
Remember the Brady campaign is like the press and other democrat backed organizations. They are all LIARS and anti American.
Perhaps it’s come to the point where gun stores have to post “no video, audio recording or photographs without prior approval” signs and then inform employees they are not authorized to give interviews or authorization to record.
It’s a shame it’s come to this but anti-gun groups will stop at nothing to subvert the truth and promote their agenda.
Anti-2A activists are also known for putting LIVE ROUNDS in firearms hoping to have an AD/ND in a retail store. Multiple reports of this in the 1990s. NEVER leave a firearm for a retail client to muck with in case they have nefarious motives.
Thank you for keeping a watchful eye on these folks and the anti-2A crowd in general. I suspect it won’t be long before they start doing “under-cover” videos like the anti-planned parenthood organization did, and cutting the footage together to mislead congress and the public on their “findings.”