By Marion P. Hammer
Florida – -(Ammoland.com)-Time and again national pollsters insist on reporting how NRA members and other gun owners feel about gun control. Don’t believe a word of it.
None of these pollsters has access to NRA’s membership list. NRA strictly protects its membership list and doesn’t give it to mainstream media types, pollsters, solicitors or anyone else.
It is a private list and always has been. Anyone who claims to have access to NRA’s membership list is not telling the truth.
Pollsters simply ask people they survey if they are NRA members or gun owners. However, they have absolutely no way to determine whether the information they get is accurate. So despite their claims, they can’t accurately say how NRA members or gun owners feel about gun control.
In gun control polls conducted by national pollsters, it is folly to believe that gun owners tell pollsters the truth about NRA membership, gun ownership, or their views on gun control. NRA members and gun owners aren’t inclined to share their personal information with people they don’t know.
No one wants to be put on any kind of list of gun owners and that absolutely applies to lists created by pollsters for anti-gun clients. It is folly to believe gun owners tell pollsters the truth about NRA membership or gun ownership. It is even folly to believe the majority of people, whose privacy is interrupted by a pollster, tell pollsters the truth about anything.
The media love to cite national polls that claim NRA members and gun owners support gun control. That’s because they’re trying to push a gun control narrative, and the “poll results” fit their political narrative. But that doesn’t make it true.
The only legitimate poll of NRA members ever done was a national scientific survey commissioned by NRA. It surveyed 1,000 randomly-selected NRA members across the country and found that NRA members are united on today’s issues.
- 92 percent oppose banning the sale of firearms between private citizens.
- 92 percent oppose background checks on the sale of firearms between private citizens.
- 89 percent oppose banning so-called “assault weapons.”
- 93 percent oppose gun registration.
- 91 percent SUPPORT laws to keep guns out of the hands of people with mental illnesses.
That is the only legitimate survey of NRA members in existence. It was conducted to expose the bevy of pollsters reporting false survey results.
NRA members and other law-abiding gun owners know better than to believe anything they read, see or hear in the mainstream media about NRA membership views or gun owner views on gun control. You should too.
About Marion P. Hammer
Marion P. Hammer is past president of the National Rifle Association and executive director of Unified Sportsmen of Florida. She represents both organizations in Florida.
I am former military, the son of a field grade officer, retired Police Officer and I can tell you “ochwill” would not make a pimple on the a$$ of any military member. Semper Fi to all.
Oh by the way, regarding polls and pollsters, the following questions must be posed and addressed.
1. Exactly what are the questions asked?
2. Who controlled the makeup of the questions?
3. Who controls the evaluation of responses?
4. Who was questioned, how many were included and how was the listing of candidates for polling composed or determined?
I’m a Life Member of NRA, and have so been since 1975. While, in my view, the NRA and actions taken, along with others not taken is questionable to say the least, some of it’s leaders have been even worse than that. That said, the story of Gun Control is a packet of lies, as are claimes for or of it’s worth and efficacy. In simply terms, the varied faults of the NRA aside, Gun Control was, has been and remains a fantasy.
Ochwill could be another psycho class trying to ruffle our feathers to get a one sided poll of gun owners. College professors do this to justify their existence because they are nut cases.
I love how liberals always want to talk but when they say “talk” they mean “they talk, u shit up and listen””. We dont have a gun problem in our country, we have a culture, ghetto, or black problem. However you want to label it. If you take away black on black murders and shootings, we have comparable statistics to countries with stringent gun control. So , to all the gun grabbers, i invite you to start your campaign by entering south Chicago and confiscating the ILLEGAL firearms there. Get back to us (or have your nearest relative) and let… Read more »
I wish I could give a little size 10.5 love to the hiney of every “reasonable” gun owner who thinks AR-15s and other “weapons of war” should not be in citizen hands. The 2A is exactly about putting “weapons of war” into citizen hands. It is all about allowing citizens to own and bear a modern, military-capable musket of the day, like an AR-15. The 2A is an individual right. I don’t care to hunt animals. I don’t care about skeet or trap shooting. I do care about being a sheepdog to my family and defending my country against enemies… Read more »
I agree that fake,phony,frauds like brian mast should be voted out. What a loser he is. I support the 2nd just as written. These libs are commy traitors.
NRA life member here. The only reasonable gun control is an instant background check at point of sale; other than that nothing. Gun control in unreasonable and does not work. The 2nd is very clear that we the people have the right and it shall not be infringed. The federalist papers support the fact that the arms are to be the same arms used in military service. I support all small arms being legal with no restrictions including NFA items. I support permitless carry. If you can legally own a gun you should be allowed to legally carry it. I… Read more »
All of the military and ex-military gun control advocates are shills. Funny how a little cash can turn them.
Suckers. You took an oath to defend the Constitution, not fascist interests. Advocating interpretation of the Constitution for any small interest is treason.
I think your full of shit. Every Marine I know that is no longer serving has bitten my head off for using the term ex-marine. So calling yourself and ex-marine I have to question whether you served at all I also have to ask you who’s paying you there isn’t a member of any branch of of the military that I have ever met that takes your position so again I think you’re a fraud and or on the take.