Discussion: NRA CEO Emphasizes They Didn't Call To 'Ban' Or 'Confiscate' Bump Stocks

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Confiscate, what a joke, no scary black guy or boogeyman of any color is coming to anyone’s door ever to confiscate anything.
They’ve been pushing that shit since I was a small child and the exact opposite has happened in fact. The nation is saturated with not just guns but guns designed for the military and war.
No wonder there’s basically a war on so many streets and so many die daily and yearly and massively.

Something like 30 to 40 people are killed a day, A DAY, by some form of gun-many just children and the representatives of gun safety, the NRA, are worried about imposing safety laws.
I’m thinking that they’ve lost sight of their mission.

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Coward.

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A face made for bobbing for ??? apples?

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No, french-fries.

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Heavily regulated automatics were not used, proving that regulation does work.

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Read the second sentence of the first paragraph of the ATF letter on the following website and tell us if you think there is a fishy smell around this gun stock issue.

https://www.slidefire.com/downloads/BATFE.pdf

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Yes, I think that he is indeed employing some such twisted logic, though I prefer to characterize it as: We should not pass any gun control laws, because they will not prevent automobile accidents.

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I agree with @Thunderclapnewman, most support background checks.

But the NRA also suffers from the same issue the GOP does now, heavily pandering in mistrust and paranoia. This month their publication “America’s 1st Freedom” has articles like, “15 Reasons to own an AR-15”, and “How Britain Covers Up Murder Statistics”. I remember their scare articles on Hilary and Obama coming for your guns. After writing those pile of sh1t articles how could they possibly endorse even a review of bump-stocks and not lose some credibility?

I also want to mention, I find it sadly hilarious that in their statement for some gun regulation they drag Obama into this. (https://home.nra.org/joint-statement/)

Despite the fact that the Obama administration approved the sale of bump fire stocks on at least two occasions, the National Rifle Association is calling on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) to immediately review whether these devices comply with federal law. The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations.

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That is a patently false statement.

The BATF under the Obama administration concluded that it lacked the statutory authority to regulate them—there was no “approval” of any kind.

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As I said yesterday it was all puffery designed to look like concern.

After the National Rifle Association on Thursday called for the federal government to look into regulating bump stocks, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre followed up Thursday night emphasizing that the gun rights group did not call for an outright ban.

“We didn’t say ban, we didn’t say confiscate,” LaPierre told Fox News’ Sean Hannity after noting that the NRA urged the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to review whether bump stocks comply with federal law.

“We just said the ATF should review bump stocks. We never said they should be banned!”

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It’s funny, but then I remember some churches have been known to have gun give away, and I’m not laughing anymore. Satire is dead.

https://thinkprogress.org/kentucky-churches-giving-away-guns-to-help-people-discover-jesus-b0f36819e0ca/

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I really hate the fact the arguments the NRA and die hard gun owners make only sound smart, but don’t hold up when more context is given. They love to claim that strict gun laws don’t do anything to prevent deaths in Chicago and Baltimore. But they always forget to mention that Chicago and Baltimore are cities that are very close to the borders of other states that have much laxer gun laws which is where most of the confiscated guns in those cities come from.

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And yet the membership keeps writing checks to an entirely voluntary organization. If they favored sensible policy enough, they would get rid of the supposed leaders, or simply leave. And there certainly is an NRA base, the same way that there’s a GOP base, that may be a minority but is loud, in control and dangerously nuts.

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There is a very special place in Hell for Wayne Lapierre. And he needs to go there ASAP.

In the meantime, however, I wish the Southern Poverty Law Center would (accurately) label the NRA a hate group.