straw man: thought the NRA was supposed to be in the pocket of the gun industry. Every private sale of a used gun is a new gun sale lost. You'd think an "industry shill" would be doing everything in its power to inhibit such sales. Wouldn't you?
Another specious & silly remark; YES, the money-uber-alles nra is indeed in the pocket of the gun industry, and nra once embraced universal background checks as late as 1999, and any profits the nra would obtain from private sales are indeed slim to none, but they do it to be deemed gunnut friendly so as to garner favor for politicians which support this illicit loophole, thereby gaining anti guncontrol support in the upper & lower houses of congress. Duh. There are peripheral reasons to the underlying money angle.
pipo: This issue (the renamed "gun show loophole"
is the red herring. It has and does raise more money for gun control groups than any other issue. That is the money behind not making constitutional headway on the issue. .If the issue goes away so do a lot of donations to the big gun control groups.
Malarky, background checks are just one aspect of guncontrol efforts & I've been donating for a couple decades & haven't seen donation specific requests (or breakdowns) other than attaching it to specific gc efforts - the same as for awbans, superclip bans, et al. What IS true is that near 90% of americans wanted background checks in 2013 but were blocked by the nra controlled upper house/senate. To say that the bg check issue is the prime donation gatherer is specious & sounds like nra propagunda.
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