This is from Dudley Brown from the NAGR. The National Association for Gun Rights....
www.nationalgunrights.org/what-is-the-nra-thinking/Is the NRA talking out of both sides of their mouth?
As I told you last week, during Senate debate on the mis-named “Patriot Act,” Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced an amendment to protect gun owners’ firearm purchase records from the warrant-less searches authorized by the mis-named “Patriot” Act.
That sounds like a good cause for Second Amendment groups to get behind, right?
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), pictured here with NAGR Director of Operations Luke O'Dell, is a true champion for gun owners.
That’s why the National Association for Gun Rights, other active gun groups and Senate leaders like Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Mike Lee (R-UT), all got behind the Paul Amendment.
But not the NRA.
They criticized Senator Paul for his efforts and OPPOSED the amendment!
It gets better......The day after the vote on Paul’s amendment, the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action released a press release that — you guessed it — confirmed Senator Paul’s concerns regarding Federal law enforcement agencies targeting law-abiding American gun owners.
They reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the ATF have been circulating flyers demanding gun shops report “suspicious” customers to their “local Joint Terrorism Task Force.”
Their criteria for what constituted a “suspicious” person?
◦paying in cash instead of credit cards
◦an interest in concealed weapons
◦purchasing large quantities of ammunition
◦traveling “great” distances to use shooting ranges
◦Knowing little about firearms
Gun shops are filled with law-abiding Americans — many of whom frown on debt and pay with cash — who are purchasing concealed weapons for self-defense and trying to learn as much as they can about firearms.
So on one day, the NRA publicly stated that they couldn’t support Rand Paul’s amendment on the basis that it was unnecessary.
And on the very next day their own legislative analysis team echoed Paul’s concern by stating that certain law enforcement agencies have gone “overboard” by targeting broad groups of American citizens with authorities granted by the Patriot Act.
This kind of BS is why I have NOT been a member of the NRA for years. I am a member of GOA, and NAGR.
Need I remind anyone of this website:
nrawol.net/