The Gun Control Thread

[BigBadBrian]

What's wrong with that? If someone is stockpiling ammo, odds are they ain't doing it for "target shooting".

No, it's to repel the Marxist-Leftist Horde!

[Seshmeister]

For the record - I voted against my state's ban on gay marriages. That quote above was in the article - so don't anybody get the wrong idea

I can just about understand some people being against gay marriage, 50 years ago it was illegal to even be gay so that stuff runs deep.

What I don't get is so many people being so uptight about it that it made them change their vote for a candidate. In NY too.

I guess it's the power of the organised religions who are absolutely obsessed with that kind of thing for some reason.

[BigBadBrian]

NRA: Membership Has Grown by 250,000 in One Month

LINK

A quarter of a million people have signed up for new NRA memberships ahead of the White House Task Force's findings

A day before President Barack Obama is scheduled to release Vice President Joe Biden's recommendations to curb gun violence in the United States, the National Rifle Association told U.S. News and World Report that they have seen membership grow by 250,000 in the month since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

Politico reported membership had grown by more than 100,000 five days ago. The NRA says that when Politico reported the story, membership was close to 200,000, but the number has drastically grown in just five days. The association now has over 4.25 million members, but the NRA says that number is always fluctuating as memberships expire and new members join.

"I would say that every time President Obama opens his mouth and Sen. [Dianne] Feinstein opens her mouth and they talk about gun bans and restricting the rights of law abiding Americans, people pay attention to that and sign up," says Andrew Arulanandam, the NRA's public affairs director.

The growing rate of membership comes as Obama is slated to announce both legislative proposals and executive orders related to Biden's findings on how to stop the spread of gun violence. The vice president has said that his committee is mulling over stringent restrictions on high-capacity magazines, a national gun sale database and closing the gun show loophole, which allows unlicensed gun dealers to sell firearms to customers without background checks at gun shows.

Biden sat down with the NRA last week, in what the association described as a disappointing meeting.

"We were disappointed with how little this meeting had to do with keeping our children safe and how much it had to do with an agenda to attack the Second Amendment," the NRA said in a released statement Thursday. "While claiming that no policy proposals would be 'prejudged,' this task force spent most of its time on proposed restrictions on lawful firearms owners—honest, taxpaying, hardworking Americans."

New members can join the NRA with a one-year membership for $35, a two-year membership for $60, or become life members for $1,000. Members can also pay $25 up front, then be placed on a payment schedule until their lifetime dues are completely paid. Members receive an "official NRA members-only shooter's cap," a membership card and a decal and invitations to special NRA-only events.

[jhale667]

No, it's to repel the imaginary Marxist-Leftist Horde!

Corrected to reflect reality.

[BigBadBrian]

Corrected by a feminine douchebag to reflect reality.

There, even more correct still.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wx9GxXYKx_8

i can't listen to it at work...

[Seshmeister]

NRA: Membership Has Grown by 250,000 in One Month

"I would say that every time President Obama opens his mouth and Sen. [Dianne] Feinstein opens her mouth and they talk about gun bans and restricting the rights of law abiding Americans, people pay attention to that and sign up," says Andrew Arulanandam, the NRA's public affairs director.

If you don't do proper background checks, how do you know they are law abiding?

[jhale667]

Said the steroid-pumped pussy.

I'm on 'roids, and have no neck and no penis.

Sucks to be you!

[DONNIEP]

If you don't do proper background checks, how do you know they are law abiding?

Background checks are a must and my state requires them even for private sales or if you simply give a handgun away.

[Seshmeister]

Maybe but that's despite the NRA who always seem to be trying to undermine them.

http://vacps.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77:nra-seeks-to-weaken-background-check-system-in-virginia&catid=36:posts

[jhale667]

Maybe but that's despite the NRA who always seem to be trying to undermine them.

http://vacps.org/index.php?option=co...catid=36:posts

And again, it's the leadership of the NRA that needs to be ousted, since every poll I've seen idicates the majority of their membership is WAY more rational about gun control than they let on (& more so than certain nuts posting here). 74% favor background checks is ALL cases, you hear ghoul-in-chief Wayne LaPiere mention that?

[FORD]

Background checks are a must and my state requires them even for private sales or if you simply give a handgun away.

How do they enforce that though? It would be relatively easy to monitor gun shows, or even a garage/estate sale that was advertised in the local newspaper or on Craigslist or whatever. But if one individual sells or gives away another gun to an individual and skips the check, how would anybody know.....at least until the buyer is either dead or in custody after a killing spree.

[DONNIEP]

If the issue was put to a vote by the people I would vote for background checks, waiting periods and mandatory gun safety/handling/proper use training (my local range/gun shop offers these classes and they aren't expensive).

[jhale667]

If the issue was put to a vote by the people I would vote for background checks, waiting periods and mandatory gun safety/handling/proper use training (my local range/gun shop offers these classes and they aren't expensive).

Any rational person would agree to that. The problem is the people that AREN'T.

[Seshmeister]

What about a test fire for all legally owned guns put into a ballistics database?

That seemed like a good way for law abiding people to keep their guns but to stop them being used for crime.