The NRA: Flip Flop, Inc....

Interesting how the NRA continues to ignore its own contributions to gun control.

In the 1920s the National Revolver Assoc., a branch of the NRA at the time, proposed the first gun control legislation requiring concealed pistol licenses, registration of pistols, making those records available to police, and mandatory waiting periods, just to name a few of the requirements; 9 states passed it.

It is a fact that the NRA helped WRITE the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Gun Control Act of 1938.

In 1939, Karl T. Frederick, the president of the NRA, testified before Congress stating, “I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.”

After the assassination of JFK, NRA Exec.V.P. Franklin Orth came out in support of banning mail order sales of firearms: “We don't think that any sane American, who calls himself an American, can object to placing into this bill the instrument which killed the president of the United States.”  The fact that the vast majority of firearms purchased this way were used to commit no crimes of any sort was conveniently ignored.

The NRA backed California’s Mulford Act of 1967, banning the carry of loaded weapons in response to Black Panther protests against gun control.

Jim Baker, Director, NRA-ILA, 1993: " We already support 65% of the Brady bill, because it moves to an instant check, which is what we want."

2018, NRA asks ATF to regulate bump stocks and other parts that have the effect of increasing the rate of fire of a semi auto firearm, a move that could eventually be used to regulate ALL semi auto firearms as the action of the slide to reset the trigger has the effect of speeding up the rate of fire for a semi auto firearm.

The NRA is fully complicit in the development and advancement of gun control even as it fights some aspects of gun control.  I cannot support the NRA.