NRA Issues Gag Order to Its Board Members on Elena Kagan


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Internal Senate emails confirmed by NRA Board Members are highlighting just how far the National Rifle Association has fallen.

The organization recently collaborated with the left to obtain a carve out of the DISCLOSE Act, legislation designed to silence bloggers and outside interest groups like tea party activists. This was a first amendment issue and the NRA gladly took a position and campaigned for its members to take a position on the DISCLOSE Act.

One of the NRA’s chief arguments was that it needed the carve out to be effective in its advocacy of Second Amendment issues. But here’s the problem: these internal Senate emails confirmed by NRA Board Members show that the National Rifle Association’s management team has explicitly and directly told the NRA’s board they are prohibited from testifying about second amendment issues during the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings.

That’s right: the foremost gun rights lobby in the nation is prohibiting its board from testifying in the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings about the second amendment.

The NRA did issue a statement on Friday after the internal Senate email began leaking out informing people of the gag order. The statement noted Kagan’s problematic record on guns, but that’s just smoke and mirrors. Don’t believe them when they say they are working with Senators to investigate her record. If they were really working with Senators, they would have accepted an invitation to testify on the Kagan nomination when they were invited. The gag order on board members is not limited to providing testimony, but it prohibits board members from coming out against Kagan in their individual capacity.

If the NRA is really working with pro-guns Senators and Kagan is really hostile to Second Amendment rights, which she is, they will score her confirmation vote and actually make the score count this time, unlike they did on the confirmation of Sonya Sotomayor. With Sotomayor, they waited until several days after RedState began demanding a score and then, in effect, announced they’d score it and ignore it.

First they collaborated with the left to get the DISCLOSE Act through the House, now they are blocking their own from speaking out against Elena Kagan. Is this the deal the NRA cut with the left? They get a carveout and shut up their board?


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That's it...... I'm done.

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 5:37PM EST (link)

Membership canceled.

Dang it..... Post when really ready..... Sheesh.

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 5:39PM EST (link)

NRA membership canceled.

GOA and JPFO only from now on.

Does Wayne LaTraitor really have that much control over his Board?

mikerazar (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 5:54PM EST (link)

I bet he’ll have some resignations from Board members very soon.

We have a nation to save, people.

From your lips to Charlton Heston's ears! [nt]

cwilson (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 6:23PM EST (link)

.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! –Samuel Adams

 
 

How does cancelling your membership rather than mounting up ...

Martin Knight (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 6:43PM EST (link)

… and booting the liberals who’ve infiltrated it help?

I understand where you're coming from, Martin. But

eburke (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 6:51PM EST (link)

there are only so many hours in the day and only so many organizations I have the time and energy to help ‘purge’. Right now it’s the GOP leadership, the NRSC, local GOP apparatus and getting true conservatives elected in the primaries.

First the endorsement of my socialist CongressCritter…twice; then the endorsement of Strickland; then the equvicating with Sotamayor; then the DISCLOSE Act and, even worse, the weasel-worded BS from Chris Cox afterward (hell, even the Sierra Club had the intellectual honesty to oppose the bill with the carveouts even though the were one of the carve outs because of the unequal treatment to other environmental groups. Hell, when the Sierra Club has more principles than you’ve got, you’re in a world of hurt).

And now….this garbage.

My membership card, cut up into little pieces, and a request for any dues paid for future years (I think it’s 2 more) hit the mail tomorrow morning.

“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

Unified Patriots

 

Money talks [nt]

Bill S (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 6:56PM EST (link)

“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins

 

martin, I am absolutely finished with squishes......

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 7:03PM EST (link)

….and all they represent,

They either support those who are sworn to AND DO “uphold and defend The Constitution”, or they don’t.

The NRA obviously does not.

I’m done with them……. until they prove to me — and millions of others who I know are of the same mind but may never speak up about it — prove to us that they will support those who do and stand up and visibly fight those who do not.

Right now, by NOT fighting, The NRA is giving their tacit approval of a woman who would eliminate YOUR right to defend yourself….. and not with just a firearm either.

I’m done explaining myself on this kind of level.

Damn politicians.

 

It's time for me to renew....

drbob1988 Sunday, June 27th at 11:12PM EST (link)

if this is true some heads need to roll and I won’t be renewing until we see what’s going to happen, if at all.
There has to be more to it……maybe I’m in denial.

 
 

Do Not Cancel

pirate55 (Diary) Saturday, July 3rd at 9:57AM EST (link)

As we do with our dear Republican Party, let us not shrink from the fight, but let us speak loudly for all that is right.

 
 

Ditto. Unfortunately, just 6 months ago

trutexan Sunday, June 27th at 7:28PM EST (link)

I bought hubby a Lifetime membership. But I’m taking the patch off his biker vest and I won’t renew my annual.

Oh and NRA? Don’t bother calling for any more money. We’re done.

I was anti-Obama before it was cool.

 

NRA Membership Cancellation

lwe6576 Monday, June 28th at 6:13AM EST (link)

How did you cancel your membership? I can’t find anywhere on the website that allows cancellation and I called the number and was on the phone forever and never got a live person so I could cancel my membership. Thank you.

Contact info

jakeduke Monday, June 28th at 12:40PM EST (link)

Here is where you need to go: https://www.nrahq.org/contact.asp

This is what I wrote to them: I am seriously disappointed in NRA’s limited and wrong view of the DISCLOSE Act and the leadership’s low view of the rest of the U.S. Constitution. It is quite problematic for me. Then this morning I hear from RedState.com about the gag order on board members concerning the anti-Constitutional Kagan nominee for the Supreme Court. What has happened to the NRA of my youth and most of my adult life which actually defended ALL of the Constitution and specifically the 2nd Amendment. Caving into and making compromises with our enemies has caused me to reconsider my nearly lifetime association with this organization. You either stand with ALL of our American principles or I cannot stand with you any longer. Please do what is right, not what is politically expedient and lacking in principle… Thank you.

 
 

NRA cancellation

f100drivr Monday, June 28th at 8:46AM EST (link)

My cancellation is effective right now . Wayne has crossed a line from which he cannot retreat and I have had enough of the powere elites !!!!

 
 

Is this two times in as many weeks they sell out?

wattsburg0 (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 6:04PM EST (link)

I think….
ya..I am going to go throw up now

 

NRA + RNC = Dem lite.

Old_Crow (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 6:09PM EST (link)

Never again.

“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” — James Madison

 

bravery

seesalrun (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 6:15PM EST (link)

is exhibited through action. Not words.
Looks like We the People are the last ones standing. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

Erick: It's simple. They've been infiltrated. The new liberal NRA ...

Martin Knight (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 6:16PM EST (link)

… is going to be onboard when the Democrats bring up a new Assault Weapons Ban, and start weighing in on School Choice, Illegal Immigration, etc. on all the side of the Left.

I’m thinking it’s either they’ve fallen victim to the Left’s march through the institutions or they’ve got pictures of the top guy in the NRA in bed with a live boy or dead girl.

Acronym now means the National Rifle thru your constitutional rights Association-nt

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 6:12AM EST (link)

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

 
 

The NRA has definitely been taken over by liberals...

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 6:24PM EST (link)

and the question remains when will the members stand up and DEMAND a new board that would be consistent with their VALUES!

New member--???

undergroundconservative Sunday, June 27th at 7:18PM EST (link)

Even though I don’t own a gun (though I’d like to—) I’ve been seriously considering an NRA membership over the past few months to help bolster what I feel they’ve done to support the Constitution over the years. Perhaps now is not the time…

 
 

I am crushed

earlgrey (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 6:43PM EST (link)

Will rank and file members notice? I am not an NRA member or a gun owner, but I am glad there are good people who carry weapons. I never thought i would see the NRA fall. Is this a question of bad leadership or just a general turn toward liberalism as the AARP did?

Answer: Self-Serving Leadership

america1st (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 7:45PM EST (link)

Back in the 1970s, there was an internal revolt led by Neal Knox which turned things around for a while, but now it’s back to the same BS. The problem is there are “professional managers” – e.g. Wayne LaPierre – who make a very handsome living issuing sound bites & publicity photos. If the people of the US ever manage to reclaim their rights under the Second Amd., the need for the high paid lobbyists, er managers, becomes much less.

That’s why GOA was the lead organization on the Heller suit with the NRA only jumping in when they saw the train was out of the station and they would lose all credibility if they did not act. They didn’t act on the Katrina confiscations until their hands were forced, either.

There are also the appeasement types in the organization’s body – the ones who will throw the self-defense and black rifle “mob” to the lions to keep their trap shooting and five figure safari rifles.

The NRA “leadership” is much like the current RNC – timid and focused on protecting its own perks, not on defending the Constitution and their members.

I stopped contributing to them about 5 years ago because of this. But I’m not going to tear up the six Life or higher level memberships in my immediate family. GOA will get my money and I will do what I can to refocus this once-great organization. Very much as all conservatives are seeking to save this nation from the cancerous rot of the “progressives” slithering about.

Logic in the mind of a liberal is like a snowflake in the desert: lost, alone and soon destroyed by a hostile environment.

I believe a member of the CATO institute

jimmyg Sunday, June 27th at 8:19PM EST (link)

was co-counsel in Heller and is also co-counsel in McDonald. It is my understanding that the NRA had been given 10 of the 30 minutes of the plaintiffs case to argue its view in the McDonald case.

Yes, *NOW* they are visible . . .

america1st (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 6:31AM EST (link)

. . . like zero’s walk along the Gulf shore. Look at the timeline on Heller – they came in only when the Supremes agreed to hear the case. Until then, the lobbyist managers stayed true to their “we don’t want to give the anti’s the opportunity to define the Right” meme and rather too obviously hoped the case would be dismissed so the status quo would not be upset.

With Kagan and DISCLOSE, they made a massive error, apparently gambling they could keep their sell-outs hidden as they guarded their sinecures. Like S&W’s sell-out to slick 15+ years back, the downside will be an avalanche which, sadly, will redound more to the benefit of the anti-American leftist “progressives” than patriotic firearms owners.

Logic in the mind of a liberal is like a snowflake in the desert: lost, alone and soon destroyed by a hostile environment.

 

DID YA KNOW ABOUT THIS......

bigmaude Monday, June 28th at 8:59AM EST (link)

George Soros has given money to the Cato institute? Watch. And study who you follow these days. We best be pulling ALL threads to see what things are connected to.

So?

seandparnell (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 10:08AM EST (link)

Don’t know if this you’re correct or not, but if it is I’d guess it’s to support their work on drug decriminalization. Cato is libertarian, after all.

The problem with this sort of “follow the money/guilt by association” stuff is that you wind up with some pretty wild and wholly unfounded conspiracy theories. A pretty good reason to care less about funding, more about what people/organizations actually do.

(full disclosure, the president of Cato is on my Board of Directors – and I don’t disclose who are donors are or aren’t, but given that Soros is funding our opponents, well, you can probably do the math here and figure out whether Soros is funding me or not).

Sean Parnell
President
Center for Competitive Politics
http://www.campaignfreedom.org

Well sean

bigmaude Monday, June 28th at 8:43PM EST (link)

Maybe it does matter what and who money comes from. Soros is an evil sob and I wouldn’t take a bag of pork rinds from him. Go to newswithviews for the info on soros and cato connection. If I’m building a day care center, ain’t taking $ from a sex offender.
Disclosure…..just a wife and mom with ccp with a love for my .38 pink lady. President of nothing, no one I owe anything to on my board, cutting board…..

 
 
 
 

The Cincinatti Reforms

OldNuc Sunday, June 27th at 8:38PM EST (link)

of the NRA buylaws were the result of the work of Neal Knox and a small group of members who were very upset with the NRA cave in in regards to the GCA 68. Those reforms have all been reversed in the subsequent years after the trap, skeet shooting and safari rifle crowd managed to run Neal Knox out of the organization. It has once again become a very moderate compliant organization and is of no real use to the average gun owner who is interested in a gun for self defense.

I have been a member since the early 60s and am presently an Endowment Life member, for a while yet. I spent most of Friday attempting to contact the NRA by phone to no avail to chat about the DISCLOSE act and how you can possibly defend the 2nd. amendment without the 1st. And now we see this Kagan(SP?) rollover.

I will attempt to communicate my level of disgust Monday.

 
 
 

Straw....meet camel

eburke (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 6:46PM EST (link)

I’m done.

GOA here I come.

“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

Unified Patriots

 

And all...

pamela1631 (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 6:47PM EST (link)

Was revealed as to the color of the NRA’s stripes…

Yellow down the spine looks so nice on them.

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it. ~~Elmer Davis

I am stone forged from the fires of creation into flesh ~~Pamela1631

The greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced.~~Maj. L. Caudill, USMC (Ret.)

 

Maybe the NRA should take on a hyphenated name.

klondike Sunday, June 27th at 7:00PM EST (link)

AARP-NRA. Match made in heaven.

 

NRA going the way of RNC

snowshooze (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 7:17PM EST (link)

Trying to cut their losses via attrition.
yeah, playing the odds rather than swinging the sword in battle.
Ok…we all have votes in the NRA as well, and I have never cast mine. Probably like most of the rest of the members…tooo dang busy to be sorting out minor details of the NRA, the local utility board of directors, fighting over the city counsel and assembly…dang it the roof is leaking…I gotta get up there.
And here I thought I didn’t have to worry about the NRA…of all the stuff I have to deal with…
Ok boys…I am really sorry….but now we gotta put them onto the plate. Yeah, of all things we gotta screw with…ya gotta be kidding me.
Can’t anyone do their dang job without me having to personally oversee it?? NO! What a pack of idiots… and don’t you know, all us NRA members got all those letters and e-mails…seems like every week…wanting more money. And THIS is what we get???
NRA…be warned. I am coming…and I am mad. I won’t quit, but I will make life as miserable as I can for you as you have become just another form of bureaucrat, the lowest life form on earth.
Brothers in arms…..we cannot tolerate this.
Looks like we are gonna have to shoot our own dog.
Well, I do my own dirty work, and accept the responsibility.
We have some house cleaning to do.

 

I haven't decided which way I'm gonna fight the NRA

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 7:35PM EST (link)

From the outside or the inside.

But there will be blood for this betrayal.

Ninth ring, guys. Ninth ring.

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

I just sent my first hate mail..

snowshooze (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 7:45PM EST (link)

To the NRA.
Now Brothers in arms…join me.
I am really mad. We need to fight from within or else the NRA will become a powerful adversary.
Like the RNC, and God knows we have enough problems.
We gotta nip this in the bud.

Direction of the NRA

OldNuc Sunday, June 27th at 8:54PM EST (link)

When the bylaws were revised to eliminate the Neal Knox Cincinatti Reforms the control of the organization passed to the management of the organization. The BOD is basically a hand picked list of approved candidates and the BOD has limited powers and as it has a large number of members is impotent.

Fixing the NRA took years of dedicated work the last time and the fix came unstuck in a fairly short time frame.

They either figure out that they are seriously out of line with the membership this time or they will loose many members. I forget how many they lost after the GCA 68 fiasco but it was a considerable number. And it was that membership loss that opened the door for the bylaw reforms. Not the complaints from the membership. Contacting the guest speakers from the last annual meeting will be more effective than contacting the NRA. The NRA will listen to Beck, Gingrich, Palin, and North before they listen to any of us.

 
 
 

In Bed

cupofteaintexas Sunday, June 27th at 7:36PM EST (link)

It’s official…the NRA is in bed with the Obama Administration and the covers are pulled WAY UP over their heads!!!! What a shame!!!!

Ick

pamela1631 (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 7:55PM EST (link)

I would not want to be washing that set of sheets

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it. ~~Elmer Davis

I am stone forged from the fires of creation into flesh ~~Pamela1631

The greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced.~~Maj. L. Caudill, USMC (Ret.)

 
 

Like the so-called "pro-life" democrat and unicorns, there's really no such thing as a "pro-gun" democrat

bannedtroll Sunday, June 27th at 9:22PM EST (link)

When the chips are down, they will always side with their uber-left party leaders as we’ve seen again and again. Sure, they’ll throw you a few scraps so that they can claim to represent you, but the NRA needs to come to grips with the fact these people only exist to dismantle the Constitution. For whatever allegiance they hold to the 2nd Amendment is irrelevant if they destroy the framework holding it in place.

I’m a banned Democrat who came here to promote the idea that Republicans are racists for disliking Barack Obama.

 

Like the so-called "pro-life" democrat and unicorns, there's really no such thing as a "pro-gun" democrat

bannedtroll Sunday, June 27th at 9:22PM EST (link)

When the chips are down, they will always side with their uber-left party leaders as we’ve seen again and again. Sure, they’ll throw you a few scraps so that they can claim to represent you, but the NRA needs to come to grips with the fact these people only exist to dismantle the Constitution. For whatever allegiance they hold to the 2nd Amendment is irrelevant if they destroy the framework holding it in place.

I’m a banned Democrat who came here to promote the idea that Republicans are racists for disliking Barack Obama.

 

Where's TBone's Apologia For The NRA This Time? (nt)

IJB Sunday, June 27th at 9:43PM EST (link)

I allowed my NRA membership to expire

jmimac351 Sunday, June 27th at 10:40PM EST (link)

last year when one of their board members, Marion Hammer, came out attacking Rubio and supporting Charlie Crist. I knew something was very wrong and obviously something is.

And this month's A1F has two pics of Crist with Hammer alongside.

Locked and Loaded (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 11:12PM EST (link)

In another article, they advise that members should be thanking Lindsey Graham.

The NRA management needs to learn some gun safety; they keep shooting themselves in the feet.

 
 

Have I died and Gone to Hades?

Superheater (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 11:51PM EST (link)

I’ll be calling tomorrow to request a refund of my multiyear membership. It would be good to who infiltrated them.

 

Cancelled Membership

lwe6576 Monday, June 28th at 5:56AM EST (link)

Don’t know if I had an active membership, but if I did, I just cancelled it. I will join one of the other gun lobbying organizations since the NRA can’t be trusted to look out for gun owners.

 

Bye-bye NRA

teridavisnewman (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 7:01AM EST (link)

I canceled my life membership. They are traitors and staying in the NRA is giving comfort and aid to the enemy. GOA will be getting a new member today. I chopped up my membership card and mailed it to them with a stinging letter about what the Constitution stands for and the definition of integrity and honor since they have forgotten. As an FYI, Goo-Gone will get the sticker gunk off your car window.

Teri Davis Newman
2010 Republican Nominee for Congress
2012 Candidate for Congress
12th Congressional District of Illinois
www.terinewman.com

 

Ask Uncle Ted

dumbbuggydriverfrqtrnola Monday, June 28th at 8:01AM EST (link)

Allll Right,now is the time for ALL the Real NRA Board Members to stand up for the real interests and ALL the Constitutional Rights of the General NRA membership – and stuff their cage muzzles up the *#SES of the so called “leadership” cotillion trying to imitate OBUMMAfert’s fiat mode of RULING (as opposed to Governing by the consent and Will of the People). * Uncle Ted – unless you want your NRA Board Member LEGACY TO BE THAT OF AN OVERPAID_OVER PRIVELEGED SPOILED BRAT PARADING YOUR 2 DOZEN .50 caliber rifles in the conservative porn press to prove that you got bigger toys than us “little people” – You better SPEAK UP Young Man…. and start kicking some D.C. Buttheads in the face – If;that is, you are for real. Otherwise I’m keeping my NRA Endowment level membership – but my vote to put you on that board to guard my interests and watch my back is hereby revoked – and your albums are gonna BURN BABY BURN if we don’t here from you within 24. Ya HEAR ME LITTLE BROTHER??????

Drugs are bad mmmkay

conservativecrusade (Diary) Friday, July 2nd at 12:57AM EST (link)

n/t

“The America Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting. — Curtis LeMay

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence. — George Washington

 
 

DID NOT RENEW MEMBERSHIP!

sirgwain Monday, June 28th at 8:04AM EST (link)

I got an email from “Wayne LaPierre” stating that the NRA “really” misses me and would I just take a moment to renew my membership. I sent them back an x-rated email telling them where to jump off! I will be NO part of ANY organization that makes back room deals part of its’ way of doing business–TO–HELL–WITH–THE–NRA! HEY, NRA, ARE YOU READING THESES POSTS? You damned well should be. And to all those who have felt screwed by the actions of the NRA deal making; there ARE other pro-gun groups out there. Just make sure they are not liberal groups masking as pro-gun groups. The NRA can kiss me on the backside between the pockets–especially Wayne LaPierre!
They [NRA] just screwed themselves.

 

highlighting just how far the National Rifle Association has fallen

bornfreeamerican Monday, June 28th at 8:13AM EST (link)

The NRA is the new AARP!!

and AMA..

uselogic Monday, June 28th at 2:19PM EST (link)

and Chamber of Commerce (until they recently got hosed by Dem’s on healthcare takeover).

I've never joined the NRA

greatbasinconservative Monday, June 28th at 5:37PM EST (link)

because of their stance on the Brady Bill and the original “assault” weapons ban. They’ve always been too willing to compromise away our rights. Now they will get the same treatment that AARP, YWCA, ACLU and numerous other organizations that have been hijacked by the left get: I will stuff all of their literature they send me back into the postage paid envelope and send it back to them. Make them waste their resources on that, rather than using them against me!

 
 
 

Constitution

bobbyb444 Monday, June 28th at 8:15AM EST (link)

What comes before the 2nd Amendment? Why, the FIRST Amendment, n’est ce pas?!!! You may be a board member; you may be a general member; you may not BE a member; but you sure as hell are an American citizen first!!

I’ll be damned if someone is going to order me to squelch my political comments or questions, when I believe they might add to good decision-making and political discourse–oh yeah, and OPEN public deliberation!!

By the way, I am not a member, nor will I consider having any guns in my possession…but just the THOUGHT of someone ordering me not to speak on an important topic or confirmation?? Next we’ll be banning books about any topics adverse to this lousy administration. I can’t even put a capital ‘P’ in president.

The so-called DISCLOSE ACT is a piece of garbage. And THAT’s what I am paying my Senators and Representatives such a high salary for?? Wonder if they’ll DISCLOSE their next midnight raid in the cookie jar (i.e., raises).

Constitution

lilolady Monday, June 28th at 3:40PM EST (link)

You are Right On, Bobbyb! It is good to see so much clear
thinking. Thank God these TOOLS are not fooling anyone.
Your comment on your right to free speech and decision
making came just before banning books “on topics adverse
to Obama”. Please checkout “Founders’ Friday” on You Tube,
by Glenn Beck and if you have cable, the show on Fox. It
comes on really late. Like 11 P.M. here in Southern CA.
You will have your eyes really opened! God Bless your
Good Heart! And Speak Up every chance you get!

 
 

I stood up for the NRA before-

PGDeFreese (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 9:09AM EST (link)

but if this is true it’s obvious I was duped and that action on the Disclose Act was exactly what it looked like- surrender.

_________________

Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words…-Inscription on the Royal Tombs at Thebes

 

It sure sounds to me like

kaptkane Monday, June 28th at 9:13AM EST (link)

they’ve been infiltrated. I’m done. My money and support goes to people/groups that support my beliefs. GOA/JPFO here I come…again.

 

It is a shame

Charles Cianfrocca (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 9:37AM EST (link)

It is a shame to lose what the NRA once was. I can’t help feeling that, by everyone getting out and leaving them to die, while obviously the right move, we are losing what had once been a useful org, and could be again if we could just clean them out.

Oh, well. There is GOA. I suppose we can strengthen them.

“Get your hand out of my pocket. Ain’t nothin’ there that belongs to you.”

- Sonny Boy Williamson

 

It is a shame

Charles Cianfrocca (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 9:37AM EST (link)

It is a shame to lose what the NRA once was. I can’t help feeling that, by everyone getting out and leaving them to die, while obviously the right move, we are losing what had once been a useful org, and could be again if we could just clean them out.

Oh, well. There is GOA. I suppose we can strengthen them.

“Get your hand out of my pocket. Ain’t nothin’ there that belongs to you.”

- Sonny Boy Williamson

 

Whoa!

smellthecoffee Monday, June 28th at 9:46AM EST (link)

Pimp my dyke? I don’t think so.

“Ninety percent of this game is half mental.” Swami Yogi Maha-Berra.

 

I just called the NRA-ILA...

jmimac351 Monday, June 28th at 9:54AM EST (link)

at (800) 392-8683 – option 4

When the gentleman answered I asked him point blank whether the NRA was opposing the Kagan confirmation. He paused about 5 seconds and then began to stumble through his regurgitation of the NRA statement that they were “watching” the questioning.

The fact that his answer was not an immediate “Yes, we are actively opposing her confirmation because she is a threat to the 2nd Amendment and our Right to Bear Arms” tells you everything you need to know about today’s NRA.

I told him I was disgusted with the fact that the NRA trying to play a political game of nuance with this administration instead of standing up for NRA members. I told him this was exactly the sort of reason why I let my NRA membership lapse last December.

The NRA are being corrupted by the beltway, just like all too many RINOs we have to deal with.

Very sad, and dangerous.

 

SC ruled today gun rights are nationwide

tngal (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 10:30AM EST (link)

You;ll recall Chicago has a ban on handguns. Remember the news story with the elderly gentlemen who said he needed the gun for safety. It was a very clear sign of why should be able to protect protect ourselves.

Now, you watch how the NRA get a boatload of publicity over this today. And on which side would KAgen have landed?

Food for munching: It was a 5-4 vote.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GKARU01&show_article=1

 

How to Cancel Membership

David_Rasbold (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 11:30AM EST (link)

If you, like me, are fed up and looking to cancel your NRA membership, here’s what you have to do (as per the very friendly, but to the point NRA customer service rep I just spoke with):

1. Write a letter stating that you would like your membership canceled and a refund (optional – although I’m asking for a refund as the point is to hit them where it hurts). Include your membership number in the letter. An explanation for why your cancelling isn’t necessary, but perhaps instructive for our dear NRA friends…

2. Mail letter to the following address: NRA – Director of Membership, 11250 Waples Mill Rd., Fairfax, VA 22030.

My letter is in the mail today.

 

How to Cancel Membership

David_Rasbold (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 11:30AM EST (link)

If you, like me, are fed up and looking to cancel your NRA membership, here’s what you have to do (as per the very friendly, but to the point NRA customer service rep I just spoke with):

1. Write a letter stating that you would like your membership canceled and a refund (optional – although I’m asking for a refund as the point is to hit them where it hurts). Include your membership number in the letter. An explanation for why your cancelling isn’t necessary, but perhaps instructive for our dear NRA friends…

2. Mail letter to the following address: NRA – Director of Membership, 11250 Waples Mill Rd., Fairfax, VA 22030.

My letter is in the mail today.

Jeez... must've double clicked the "post comment" button by accident.

David_Rasbold (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 11:32AM EST (link)

Mods, please delete.

 

Jeez... must've double clicked the "post comment" button by accident.

David_Rasbold (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 11:32AM EST (link)

Mods, please delete.

 
 

NRA = Compromising Sellouts

timc Monday, June 28th at 1:27PM EST (link)

Cancel your NRA membership and join National Association for Gun Rights (www.nationalgunrights.org).

 

I've sent the following to the NRA

soljerblue Monday, June 28th at 2:05PM EST (link)

To Whom It May Concern — Messrs Cox and LaPierre

I am very disappointed in NRA’s stated view of the DISCLOSE Act, and have made that clear in previous communications.
By its “carve out” exemption from that bill, NRA’s leadership ignored the importance of the First Amendment to the Second Amendment freedoms you are sworn to defend. You ignore at your peril their linkage and dependence one upon the other.

Now I learn from RedState blog that NRA’s management has forbidden board members to weigh in on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court. Kagan’s record makes clear that she opposes firearms freedoms guaranteed by the Second Amendment. Thus, it seems that the NRA is taking the path of expedience in this matter rather than doing what is right.

You threw other First Amendment rights organizations under the bus with HR 5175, and now appear to be violating your own expressed mission focus on the Second Amendment by silencing your board members on the Kagan nomination.

As a Life/Endowment member, I have no intention of leaving the organization. However, I reserve the right to criticize when, as, and how I see NRA actions as undermining gun owners’ rights and its own stated purposes.

You are, in effect, sleeping with the enemy. It doesn’t set well with many of your members, and it will come back to bite us all in the end.

Thank you

 

Playing politics with the Bill of Rights

greyfox65 Monday, June 28th at 3:09PM EST (link)

is not a good idea. Like many of you I have also canceled my NRA membership but also emailed all my NRA contacts around the country and told them why I did it and encouraged them to contact all THEIR NRA contacts.

I recognize that to the NRA the 2nd Amendment is why they are in business but to make it PRIMO is wrong-headed. Gave up my membership. Did not give up my gun or ammunition.

Larry Cumbie

 

Hey,before you go - think what we all 'complish if we stay and kick *** as the REAL NRA

dumbbuggydriverfrqtrnola Monday, June 28th at 3:11PM EST (link)

[Yeah please watch the language in the future. It's a site rule. - Mgmt.]

Ya’ll better get a Grip here -WE Members of the NRA Can Simply Exercise OUR POWER As the Membership ;to pre-empt what our Washington NRA bureaucrats have done behind Our Backs – We Real and LOYAL Members Of The OLDEST LARGEST CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANISATION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – 1873 – % YEARS after OUR SUPREME COURT AFFIRMED THE RIGHT OF THE FORMER SLAVES along with ALL other LEGAL Citizens TO KEEP AND BEAR (TO NECESSARILY USE ???) THEIR FIREARMS in defense against ALL enemies; both FOREIGN & DEMONESTIC – -DO NOT allow ourselves to be stampeded OUT of OUR OWN organisation by a bunch of conspiritorial Marxist OBUMMIFART ideologues. Our Grand fathers did not panic at the Chosin Reservior – nor did they give up on the PUSAN Perimiter in the 1950′s -even though the usual suspects in the Marxist – Global “community” screamed repeatedly like VP Bite me and Harry Reid ” THE WAR (and our rights,liberty,and counry’s sovereignty) – are LOST !!!! ” Hey UNCLE TED…….ARE YOU LISTENING???? — How about you tell Wayne and his Little BOY BLUE Cox that they no longer have the right to represent US in any Meaningful determinations and discussions of what our 2ND AMENDMENT and ALL the other CONSTITUTIONAL rights ACTUALLY ARE – You don’t determine them Wayne _ GOD and our U.S. PATRIOT FOREFATHERS already determined these. WE strongly suggest you get out of OUR WAY while we establish just how we’re going to proceed to keep them -despite the moronic manipulations of self serving sycophants like YOU Wayne And YOU cox. You all just put yourselvese downrange of 4 MIllion PISSED-OFF AMERICAN PATRIOTS – How does it feel – Gen. HOW ?????? Hey -Uncvle TED – Lets take OUR nra Back – Where ya at ol’ buddy – I’m Just Dave the dumb buggy driver here in OILY N’awlins La – WHO DAT MUTHAFUGGA

Please watch the language.

gekster (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 3:25PM EST (link)

My Grandkids read this site.
And all are under age.
You can say the same thing without the shouts and language.
Please.

They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.

We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway

Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved

 
 

Trade Off

lilolady Monday, June 28th at 3:16PM EST (link)

Someone has just been thrown a big piece of meat . Question is,
Who? NRA has gotten the ” Right to Carry ” Nationwide passed
by the highest court of the land. Obama has gotten a roadblock
removed from the confirmation of his Choice for the Supreme
Court by the promise of the NRA to refrain from comment during
Kagin’s confirmation hearings in the Congress. QUESTION.Is
the Separation of Powers still in effect? President, Legislature,
Judicial, Lobbyists. Has our Constitution been pimped out? I
am fully in favor of the Second Amendment ! But Bribery should
be reserved for Countries that ignore their Constitutions.

 

Authority

tex41lb Monday, June 28th at 3:32PM EST (link)

Who is in charge of the NRA, the board or the management team they hire?

This is a policy issue. It is difficult to believe a board would accept such a direction from subordinates.

If they do accept this restriction then the left leaning moves of the IRA reflect a position more deeply imbedded in the organization than the management group.

I wouldn't rule out the NRA board...

soljerblue Monday, June 28th at 7:22PM EST (link)

I know none of them personally, but I can’t believe they’ll all take this gag order lying down. One of them, you may recall, Cleta Mitchell, recently went public in the WashPo, verbally “spanking” the NRA for its carve-out on the Disclose bill. I’d be willing to bet others on the board are unhappy about that, and also about the Kagan gag order. I KNOW there are many members such as myself unhappy with these positions who have let the Association know that in no uncertain terms. I think I understand where dumbbuggydriverfromnola is coming from, and I agree. The NRA has done much good for both the Second Amendment and its adherents over its long history. It can and will do more. But I believe that won’t happen unless those of us who are members stay and fight the issue. Hitting the road feels good just now. I know I’ve been tempted. But its our dollars that support the NRA, and if we let them know where we stand, AND close our check books for a period of time, I believe we can move “the management” in the right direction.

 
 

At the very least...

soljerblue Monday, June 28th at 7:24PM EST (link)

we won’t take this “slippage” from the mission lying down. I’d rather fight within the NRA than take my marbles and go home.

I think it's a good time to change

kowalski (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 7:30PM EST (link)

I think it’s a good time for the NRA’s board members to change. That sounds a lot more like something I’d get behind. If you want a change in the Board, I can see why: but don’t wreck the organization on the day you got the 2nd Amendment incorporated for Pete’s sake. Unreal.

 

I agree soljerblue,

remnant60 (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 8:07PM EST (link)

I’ve been a life-member for sometime now, along with being a certified Pistol and Rifle instructor as well as an RSO. If they’re annual convention is anywhere in the Midwest I show up at it.

The only money they’ll receive from me for now is the dues to keep my instructor ratings. From now on USCCA and GOA will get donations, and the NRA will get letters explaining why they are not.

IMO, the GOP was in worse shape just a couple of years ago, and look at the change in it!

I can understand other folks’ reasoning on this, and I frankly don’t need another windmill to joust against, but if I’m on the inside of the windmill I’m sure to hit something!

 
 

For weeks

pamela1631 (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 10:06PM EST (link)

The NRA has been calling to speak with my husband to update him on all the work they’ve been doing.
They weren’t interested in me- the one with a silver bullet.

I told them not to call again and remove our names from the list.
Felt like telling them No wimps allowed on this watch.

Total absolute disgust is the thought for the moment.

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it. ~~Elmer Davis

I am stone forged from the fires of creation into flesh ~~Pamela1631

The greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced.~~Maj. L. Caudill, USMC (Ret.)

 

Hey,Thanks soljerblue,I STILL want to hear from Our UNCLE TED NNN

dumbbuggydriverfrqtrnola Monday, June 28th at 11:05PM EST (link)

Eric and his friends will just have to excuse and understand that I’m not a CRUDE RUDE DUDE – I’m Mad As Hedubble nunchuks. Cryin out loud – I drive Mules for a living ; hauling Jkkk88es around the French Quarter teaching American History. What da ya expect?? I am a U.S Army VETERAN who remembers what happens to each of us who fight and WIN ALL our battles and then get turned into LOSERS by rear echelon types,told to go lay down ,and shut up – we might OFFEND somebody BeTTer than U.S. – If we SPEAK UP FOR OUR GOD GIVEN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS – OBummafrst forbid!!!! Yeah,soljerblue;we elected those Board members to represent us and WATCH OUR BACKS – PROTECT Us from exactly THIS TYPE of betrayal of our trust in what we UNITED in the NRA to safeguard and defend – AGAINST the Tyrants – NOT commit treason by COLLABORATING with them. How many guns were the Vichy French citizens allowed to keep in the days of the NATIONAL SOCIALISTs’rule??? Just a dumbbuggydriverinthe frqtrnola – Hey folks,come on down. Blackened Shrimp PETRO anybody??? MMM MMM MMM BAAMM dats GOOODD!!!

 

Where's the Beef?

fatwhiteman Wednesday, June 30th at 11:09PM EST (link)

So you say there’s a gag order, NRA says there is not? Can we see the gag order now?

 

FIRE WAYNE and the BOARD

blackhawk Saturday, July 3rd at 9:19AM EST (link)

These people have to go. We , members, do not want OUR association agreeing or supporting ANYTHING Obama and Progressives support.
It’s time for a complete house cleaning.
Heston must be turning in his grave.

Norm James