paladin: The NRA has walked back their criticism of open carry, to a degree. I guess they were afraid of missing out on annual dues payments by pissed-off open carriers. It figures
Your tailing is spot on, nra afraid it might burgeon: Huffington Post reported that Open Carry Texas then released a statement of its own saying its members were already cutting their NRA membership cards in half.
The open carry criticism was evidently the opinion of just one nra writer, accd'g to one source I saw on rkba; I wonder if he's fired now? they retain Ted 'Hillary is a c*nt/b*' Nugent on bd of directors, while cancelling support for one writer voicing reasonable concerns over a few tea party macho men.
What an nra bonehead, eh? ... sh**ing in the nra nest; er, pigsty.
“It shouldn’t have happened,” NRA {gunprick} Cox said... “I’ve had a discussion with the staffer who wrote that piece, and expressed his personal opinion. Our job is not to criticize the lawful behavior of fellow gun owners.”
Cox’s apologetic remarks followed threats by members of Open Carry Texas in response the NRA’s statement, which criticized the group’s practice of gathering in public places while carrying assault rifles or other long firearms to protest the state ban on carrying handguns openly.
.. the NRA’s original post read.. “Not only is it rare, it’s downright weird and certainly not a practical way to go normally about your business while being prepared to defend yourself. To those who are not acquainted with the dubious practice of using public displays of firearms as a means to draw attention to oneself or one’s cause, it can be downright scary.”
No no no - no criticism of 'lawful' gun owners by the nra, until the lawful gun owners illicitly shoot the gun when they SUDDENLY become unlawful gun owners who shouldn't have had guns in the first place, and the batf or cops or mayor bloomburg was to blame, and people need more guns to protect themselves from this type of unlawful gun owner. Circular reasoning at it's finest from nra.
.... and once the unlawful gun owner serves his prison sentence, or plea bargains, or is acquitted on a technicality, the nra works HARD to get him his gun rights restored, so he can buy more & more guns to his heart's desire, & they send him an invitation to join the nra for the paltry fee of $25 per year.
(unless he was convicted of a violent crime of assault, murder, robb, or rape, an excon can get his alleged gun rights restored thanks to the nra & fopa1986).
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