What if the NRA is riot control?

thesupermonkey

Has anyone ever considered that the NRA could be a government fabricated form of population control? The NRA appears to fight for the rights of gun owners, but is it really changing anything? New guns now have limited configurations and low capacity magazines. We as gun owners choose to obey the law even though many of these laws violate our constitutional rights. We are told by 'REGISTERING' with the NRA we are protecting our 2nd amendment rights, but what about the rights of those in California, Maryland, New York, and so on? Wouldn't it be terrible if the NRA was just a government sponsored front for registering law abiding gun owners?The Dubious Monkey Ps. I'm not saying I believe the above, just thinking outside of the box a little...

beachmaster73

Supermonkey...I think you are onto something!! What if the anti-gun, anti-2nd Amendment crazies have already paid pro-gun magazines like Guns and Ammo, Shooting,The Gun List, The Gun Digest and yes even the NRA's American Rifleman for listings of their subscribers? You know they could use a front organization called National Organization of Responsible Mediation of Legislation for Gunowners United Nationally for Success (NORMAL for GUNS). Hell with a name like that some of our more lunatic right wing fringe members might even contribute to them. NORMAL for GUNS could get the names of every law abiding, .50 BMG sniper rifle or .25 Jennings owning, 2nd Amendment supporting American and hold those names until the "New Order" was established; then with a new National Police Gestapo Force they could track down all gun-owning Americans(they could people this elite para-military organization from various hard core liberal organzations...imagine Sara Brady and some Brandeis University left wing lesbians as their drill instructors...I'm frightened). They could do away with due process and just use the fact that a person subscribed to more than two gun magazines as "de facto" proof that he was hiding weapons!!! Oh my what ever will we do? They already know who we are!! Our cause is lost!! They could even tax us former gunowners to fund the search for our illegal weapons. I better get lots of batteries for my flashlight to start checking under my bed for the coming anti-gun boogeyman!!Oh I just remembered this is America we can always vote the bad guys out of office! Oh yeah and it takes a 2/3s vote of all the states to kill an Amendment to the Constitution. So if 2/3's of all the states decided that the Second Amendment was no longer applicable...I guess we'd have to go along with it and turn in our weapons. Now let me see how many states might go along with killing the Second Amendment...New York(maybe), Massachusetts(yes), California(maybe, maybe not), Connecticut(yes), hhhmmm............I'm running out of states here. Somebody help me out here...what other states would vote the Second Amendment down? Guess there is no real chance that we'll see that vote anytime in our lifetimes.It is a neat premise though Super Monkey and I commend you for thinking outside of the box; but I think my weapons are still very secure and my rights equally so. Our government is a servant of the people; and I believe when a representative stops serving the people who put him there, he gets to go home and is replaced by someone who mirrors the voters' desires. Beach

thesupermonkey

Ok, sarcasm noted...But there is one major problem. People today are sick dependant sheep. Do you honestly think your rights are secure? We have people flocking to give up their individual rights for promises of better security! Can't you see it Beach? Americans don't need guns for protection, that's what our police force is for! Monkey

beachmaster73

Supersimian......none of my sarcasm was directed at you. You did come up with an interesting idea. I pushed the idea to include available gun magazines not just the NRA. I guess I'm still over reacting to many of the doomsayers. In the last 35 years not a single law enacted has had an impact on me or any of my firearms. Maybe I just picked the right firearms to buy over the years; but if you keep hearing doom and gloom for 35 years and yet don't see anything remotely resembling gun confiscation maybe you start thinking the emperor has no cloths on. All the best to you monkey...I do like your posts!! Beach

offeror

The NRA may not be riot control, but 6 million American members with guns ARE riot control, if necessary....I can just see the look on Feinstein's face as she reads the first post in this thread.... The anti-gunners obviously do not consider the NRA an ineffective stooge of government and would be horrified to learn that many of us would like the NRA to "bully up" and get serious about defending our gun rights. That's gotta be their nightmare... a tougher NRA!

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Iconoclast

Monkey, I'm sure you're on to something here. 125 plus years ago, the New World Order realized they would have to do something about these barbarians on the North American continent who actually allowed the masses to have the means to defend themselves against domestic and external aggressors, so they sent agents to create this subversive organization which would, over time, lead said barbarians into the proper mind set for their ultimate objectives. Nah, I don't think so. Perhaps that the professional staff makes a damn good living holding the liberal hordes at bay and doesn't want to do *too* good a job, else they find themselves out of work, but knowing some Directors personally, the idea that it is a front for the Brady Bunch isn't going to fly. Good exercise in creative thinking, though.

Evil ATF

Monkey:Stop being such a paranoid crank!Just kidding, my Simian brother. I hadn't thought of that possibility before. I does make perfect sense. I'm pretty sure that the NRA sells it's member list to other "pro-gun" companies. Immediately after getting my lfie membership, I got an avalanche of pro-gun junk mail from various groups. I 'spose that it would just take a Socialist lefty to form a "pro-gun" group and buy the NRA mailing list with the cover story of simply doing a mass mailing of their own. Good job on thinking outside the box. Keep 'em coming!