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Swordsmyth
03-01-2018, 07:49 PM
In the days after 17 students and educators were gunned down in the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (https://www.thedailybeast.com/returning-to-the-scene-of-a-school-shooting-helps-kids-heal), the group Gun Owners for America did what it often does in such macabre moments: It refused to give an inch.
When President Donald Trump announced that he was issuing an executive memorandum outlawing the use of bump stocks (https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-gov-rick-scott-moves-to-raise-gun-buyer-age-to-21-ban-bump-stocks)—the device that allows a semi-automatic weapon to fire as if it were a fully automatic one—GOA decried it as (https://gunowners.org/gun-owners-of-america-statement-on-pres-trump-bump-stock-memo.htm) “a gross infringement of Second Amendment rights.” When Trump threw his support behind a bill that would strengthen state reporting requirements to the federal database of gun purchases, GOA put out a fact-sheet (https://www.gunowners.org/fxnicsfactsheet.htm) that called it a “fool’s errand.”
That was just a start. A couple days later, GOA Executive Director Erich Pratt told members to stay strong in an 11-minute web video (https://twitter.com/GunOwners/status/967149354543755264).
“A lot of Republicans are wetting their pants right now,” he said.

Why do we protect our lawmakers with guns, but our children with a gun free zone sign?

GOA's @erichmpratt (https://twitter.com/erichmpratt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) says it's time to end gun-free schools. pic.twitter.com/gdpcXojfA4 (https://t.co/gdpcXojfA4)
— GOA (@GunOwners) February 22, 2018 (https://twitter.com/GunOwners/status/966462720701882368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
To those members who worried the “battle was already lost,” Pratt reminded them that they’d faced down pressure after horrific mass shootings like the one at Columbine High School and Sandy Hook Elementary School and won, even without the help of “very big gun rights organizations that were supporting what I would call gun control light.”

In recent years, groups like GOA and National Association for Gun Rights have stifled legislation, helped unseat lawmakers, and moved the Overton Window of the gun debate. As much as any other factor, they are credited (or blamed) with pushing the NRA (https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnns-brianna-keilar-embarrasses-nra-supporting-lawmaker-over-delta-discounts) to become a more overtly partisan institution, as the famed gun-rights lobby fears it could be outflanked from the right.

The NRA did not return a request for comment. Few political observers would argue that its status as the king of the gun lobby is immediately threatened. But while none of the fellow pro-gun rights groups (GOA, Zelman Partisans, the National Association for Gun Rights, and the Second Amendment Foundation among them) have comparable membership numbers, some have begun to flex their political influence in comparable fashion. Since 2013, the National Association for Gun Rights has spent more than $14 million lobbying Congress, the GOA has spent nearly $5 million, while the NRA has spent just over $20 million.

More at: https://www.thedailybeast.com/these-groups-make-the-nra-look-like-a-bastion-of-moderationand-they-could-determine-the-current-gun-debate?source=articles_sum&via=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+thedailybeast%252Farticles+ (The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles)

seapilot
03-01-2018, 08:26 PM
The NRA takes all the political heat while GOA goes unnoticed by the public and kicking ass for the 2nd amendment. Competition is good when defending and advancing freedom.

XNavyNuke
03-02-2018, 06:42 PM
Radicals.

http://www.sistersofthesecondamendment.com/products.html

XNN

RonZeplin
03-02-2018, 07:12 PM
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