Tag: NRA

It Depends Upon What the Meaning of the Term ‘A+ Rated’ Is

Texas governor endorses Tony Gonzales over Brandon Herrera in House race [More]

Right…endorse the Vichycon who helped enable Biden’s unconstitutional private sales ban.

Hey! This guy's a great big phony!

[Via Jess]

Unequal Protection

Democrat Judge Exempts NRA Members From New Gun Rule [More]

Well, I’ve got mine. The hell with the rest o’ youse.

Sorry — just practicing in case I ever become one of the elites. I keep telling the wife all she’s gotta do is pick six lousy numbers and she can’t even do that right.

Even though it’s temporary, I’ve never been a quasi-“Only One” before.

We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us

The key to all of this is the involvement of state association leaders, and the key to getting those leaders involved is your advocacy. This can only happen if large numbers of NRA members begin pushing the idea at their local gun clubs and directly petition their state associations. Begin by sharing this article with your gun-owning friends and the leadership of your local clubs, Friends of NRA committees, and state association leaders. Follow that with calls and emails asking those leaders to take immediate action. [More]

Ay, there’s the rub.

A common excuse for letting others carry the load and limiting involvement to anonymous comments of dissatisfaction is that unlike Democrat activists, “we” have jobs and families and don’t have time.

Personal experience tells me that’s just bullsh!+. I had demanding jobs and raised a family, and I still always made time to get involved in all kinds of advocacy and skill improvement/preparation activities while doing so.

Some of you have, too, but far too many in “our ranks” have not.

[Via Jess]

What’s in a Title?

WANTED: CEO for America’s Oldest & Largest Civil Rights Organization. Only Qualified Applicants Need Apply [More]

I couldn’t find a royalty-free photo of a street hooker in a tube top and leopard print hotpants to include with this post. But smart @$$ery aside, what’s with “CEO”?

I’ve been seeing it for years and it’s always confused me.

It’s not just how others refer to him, it’s how NRA refers to him, case in point, on official tax documents they file with the government.

The reason I’m confused is because per the Bylaws, Article V, Section 1 (a):


“The officers of the Association shall be a President, one or more Vice Presidents, an Executive Vice President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, an Executive Director of the National Rifle Association General Operations, and an Executive Director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action.”

Then you get to (b) and it says (in boldface type):

“The Board may not abolish said offices nor create any other offices.”

That seems pretty specific and there for a reason. Anybody who knows what the deal is, please feel free to educate via comments.

Special Circumstances Necessitate Saturday Post

I typically don’t post here on weekends because I’m working on articles, behind-the-scenes sausage-making, and spending time in pursuit of happiness with my family, but something came up I thought I need to address immediately, plus the LaPierre story broke after I’d knocked off work yesterday.

Danger, Will Robinson?

I’ve talked before about how this blog and advocacy media are really the only ways I have of sharing links to my articles (aside from asking readers, which has for the most part been historically unreliable). I hope regulars here will agree they get information and insights you won’t get from the “real reporters” who dominate public perceptions (otherwise, why keep coming back?). So I was surprised (and more than a little p!$$ed) to see this reply to my X announcement about my latest AmmoLand article on California Democrat gun-grabbers harassing the “law-abiding” while their criminal constituents get another pass:

Like the man asked, WTF?

I use both Malwarebytes and Webroot, and have never had a problem with AmmoLand (albeit some readers who haven’t figured out ad blockers are prone to grouse about the price of “free”). So I clicked the Bitly link to see what the grievance was, and the only thing that makes “sense” is:

The link may have been reported to Bitly by a member of the public.

That’s it? And I don’t suppose you’re going to tell us who snitched? It’s not like I haven’t had stuff suppressed based on troll complaints before.

Without defining an issue and proving it, URL shortening service and link management platform Bitly is willing to disparage reputations and cast suspicion and fear about visiting websites just on some anonymous person with an unknown agenda’s say-so…?

So is AmmoLand a risky place to go? Not according to Google’s Safe Browsing check (WoG comes up clean as well):

And drive away business? That seems actionable.

So what might be relevant to know about Bitly in trying to untangle this attack suppressing my work? Maybe it’s not about ideology at all?

The link they’re deeming unsafe, with the link shortener beginning “go.shr.lc,” uses Shareaholic (“300,000+ forward-thinking businesses of all sizes rely on our software”), a COMPETITOR of Bitly.

And this may or may not mean something, but the Bitly CEO Toby Gabriner is based in San Francisco. Open Secrets shows he has donated to two candidates over the years, Josh Harder and Catherine Cortez Masto, both Democrats, and if you look at their links, both extremist gun-grabbers advancing Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown agenda.

Now it’s back to X to try to undo the damage.

UPDATE

We are working with Bitly to get these linked unblocked ASAP. [More]

I hope that means you’re going to sue their @$$es if they don’t issue a public apology for reputation damages and compensate for any monetary damages you can determine they’ve caused you and your 300,00 customers by scaring readers away from their content.

Wayne’s World

Former NRA chief Wayne LaPierre misspent gun rights group’s money and owes more than $4M, jury finds [More]

Some are saying being able to put all the blame on Wayne will now work in the Association’s favor in terms of all being forgiven and people coming back.

Not until the rubber stamp board and complicit top officers are replaced.

I’ve been asked to endorse the four “bullet vote” candidates. My response:

Only if they answer my questionnaire correctly.

Crickets. That was two-and-a-half weeks ago.

And this was long before that.

The Enemy Within

Delegate Coyner voted in support of all 8 of the House gun-control bills on this list. [More]

Not listing 2A under “Issues” on campaign websites is always a red flag. But doesn’t the “A” rating from NRA make her just another opportunistic and skillful political prevaricator? Who’s got a link to the VCDL grade?

I suppose you could “politely but firmly call,” but I find blasting demonstrable liars in front of witnesses makes more of an impact.

[Via Mack H]

UPDATE

“100%”

Trump/NRA Mutual Love Fest: Long on Promises, Short on Memory

The former president and — legal challenges aside — presumed GOP contender for the office in November, knew just which buttons to push to stoke the boundless enthusiasm of the thousands of supporters. [More]

This is what we’ve got to work with. And work we must.

LaPierre Made a Career of Second Amendment Compromises

Yet the NRA under LaPierre was instrumental in urging its members to give power to politicians they knew would end up working against them, and then either acted surprised when it happened or just ignored it when it did. [More]

Ever notice how those who say “Politics is the art of the possible” are always counseling appeasement instead of pushing envelopes to see what’s really possible…?

A Not-So Golden Parachute?

The resignation of Wayne LaPierre on the eve of the trial in New York has generated letters to Judge Joel Cohen from both sides. In addition, the pre-trial memorandum containing the NRA’s trial brief seems to throw Wayne under the bus after three plus years of defending him. [More]

A lot more than Wayne will have to end up under those wheels if they ever hope to restore any credibility.

I’m hearing rumors that they may be looking to had the reins over to Lautenberg Bob. If they really want to kill it dead, I can’t think of a better way.

[Via Jess]

Liz Cheney’s Chronic Trump Derangement Syndrome Ultimately Betrays Gun Owners

Voters paying attention could have seen Cheney’s malleable self-serving loyalties coming by the company she keeps. In 2009 she partnered with Bill Kristol to found Keep America Safe, a nonprofit advocate for Bush–Cheney national security positions. Kristol is the Never Trumper who has called Democrats “foolish” and “cowardly” for not demanding more infringements, declaring “I don’t think [Americans] have a right to semi-automatic, quasi-machine guns that can shoot a hundred bullets at a time,” and asserting the “lazy” white working class should be replaced by “new Americans.” [More]

Yet another reason why gun owners trusting NRA grades without doing their own due diligence so often end up feeling swindled and used…

The Other Women

NRA has done something good, so it won’t hurt us to recognize that. Spreading this video far and wide can help promote RKBA and challenge prohibitionist lies. That includes throwing it in the faces of gun-grabbing Democrats in reply to their idiotic social media posts.

It needs to be followed up with a strong “Now Stop Voting for Democrats!” message, because that needs to change not just anecdotally, but dramatically.

[Via Andy M]

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