"The NRA is a little too radical for me" ... a paraphrased quote from my Father...

[battleknight24]

... a lawyer, rancher, and rifle-loving hunter. To me its says a lot.



He said this to me in 2003.

[Eleanors38]

1. Been too extreme for me too. Never been a member. Let them know.

[battleknight24]

2. My father loves guns and loves to hunt...

... but I don't think he's ever owned a military-grade assault weapon.

[gejohnston]

4. since "military grade" was mostly banned in the 1930s

not that the average person could afford a Thompson or BAR anyway, but if he has a bolt action, it was once a military grade battle rifle. Does he have an M-1 carbine? It is simply going from tactical to practical. Does that mean you can't have the same functioning without the ugly looks? Sure. To me, "assault weapons" are kind of like pitbulls, misunderstood by the uninformed because they listen to the BS in the infotainment industry. If I made an AR action and put it in a pretty wooden stock, and leave off the bayonet lug, it would be accepted as a fine sporting rifle. That said, I would take a good lever action over an AR any day of the week.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_weapon

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. +1

[Eleanors38]

5. When my Dad passed on, he left me his '03 .22. Found

out later it was made in .05, Winchester's first auto-loading rifle. Fair condition, beautiful let-in. But try to find the oddball ammo! Makes the outlandish taxes proposed for ammo seem cheap.

[gejohnston]

3. right on

I have hunted with both rifle and pistol, but they went off the deep end in the 1979. I still like rifles and pistols. I was a member for a year, then at the age of 19, I saw it turning from John Muir and John Browning to John Birch, I thought "these guys were fucking nuts." The board of directors are the worst. That isn't to say their opponents are not as bat shit crazy.
What we need are for reasonable people to talk like adult and ignore overpaid bat shit crazies like La Perrier and Sugarmann.

[jbgood1977]

6. IMO the NRA is far too willing to "compromise" away our rights.

Today's tragedy is a direct result of gun control efforts. Those that helped institute these free fire zones at our schools, leaving our children undefended have blood on their hands. As I recall, the NRA was a willing participant in establishing these killing fields in which our children play and are supposed to educated in.

[quakerboy]

7. I hope my dad will get there

I thought maybe this would do it. He has never liked any of their leadership, in fact calls them nuts on a regular basis. But somehow, he still believes in the organization. And as he gets older, he gets sucked into some things that he never would have given a second glance when I was younger.