Opinion
Fairfax, VA – -(Ammoland.com)- Last week, the Department of Justice announced that it would soon be releasing a final rule classifying “bump-stock-type-devices” as “machineguns” under the National Firearms Act.
These devices came to national attention in October 2017 after the horrific attack in Las Vegas. As multiple media accounts correctly pointed to at the time, there was overwhelming legislative support for proposals that went far beyond these specific devices and some that could have potentially jeopardized all semiautomatic firearms. Rather than sit back and watch a legislative over-reaction, the NRA asked Congress to let ATF review its prior determinations on bump fire stocks.
Some have used our October 2017 statement to claim that NRA supports ATF’s final rule, but as NRA-ILA’s Executive Director Chris Cox noted only days after our statement was issued, “We don’t believe that bans have ever worked on anything.”
We also made this clear in our comments to ATF on the proposed rule earlier this year. In our comments, we further advised that ATF should at a minimum make an amnesty period available to deal with the fundamental inequity imposed on law-abiding gun owners who purchased their bump fire stocks in good faith reliance on prior ATF determinations. We continue to pursue the availability of a period of amnesty with the administration.
While there can be disagreement on legislative strategy, it’s important to remember that we will soon face a hostile, anti-gun Congress led by Nancy Pelosi. It’s critical that all gun owners unite and prevent the Bloomberg-bought Congress from dismantling our Second Amendment freedom.
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Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the “lobbying” arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Visit: www.nra.org
Negotiating Rights Away
I’m a life member of the NRA, and I believe that they still have a function, as many politicians will vote to keep their good rating with the group. Harry Reid is a good example. However, these days any donations I make go to the SAF, GOA, FPC and the NAGR, as well as my local groups like the Iowa Firearms Coalition. These are the ones who are not capitulating in any way and are working the hardest to maintain our 2A rights. Let’s face it, the NRA has become so big that it’s mired in its own bureaucracy.
Poobah NRA! Self serving public servants advocate amnesty for illegal aliens – NRA advocates amnesty for the law abiding Sovereign (who refuse to commit crimes) when they in good faith engagied in lawful commerce, now considered criminal (after the fact) by those very same self serving public servants. There is a reason Congress has an 8% approval rating – NRA just placed itself in that same category or lower. Poobah NRA!
oh noooo , the NRA has just publicly ” shot themselves in the foot again ” , I was an NRA member for most of my life (I,m 60) and have lost faith in our government as well as the NRA , you cant fix stupid ! 🙁
What a lot of bullshit.The NRA remains the premier gun rights organization. I donate and will continue to do so indefinitely. I don’t expect perfection, just positive action.
You can’t have youe cake and eat it too. If it wasn’t for the NRA you’d be turning in your Flintlocks!