Wayne LaPierre discusses the BATF scandal on Lou Dobb's Tonight
Shocking Evidence Revealed: Obama Administration Stonewalls Congress By Covering Up BATFE'S "Fast and Furious" Gunrunning Scheme That Sent Thousands Of Guns To Mexican Cartels ... Watch here, Watch Now!
This was the text of an email from the NRA which I received on April 25, 2011.
It seems that Wayne and Lou are reacting (slowly, if surely) in the context of the 2011 "NRA Annual Meeting" (link provided by the 4/25 email, replying in the context of the 4/29-5/01 2011 annual meeting ... which began 4 days AFTER the email) to the ATF "Fast and Furious" program.
As if this was "New news".
The "scandal" isn't new; it has been discussed to the point of ennui in so many contexts. I'm wondering why this release from the NRA is being sent to NRA members now, since Project Gunrunner has been also the subject of many earlier NRA announcements.
And the YOU TUBE video (see below) was first loaded on April 21, 2011.
These guys post as irregularly as *_I_* do!
Still, I wonder why Lou Dobbs continues to talk about "Assault Weapons", and the NRA publishes his comments as if they are the official position of the NRA.
My understanding has been that the weapons in question are NOT "Assault Weapons" (eg: full-automatic) but instead semi-automatic versions of military weapons. (For example: AR15 rather than M16, etc.) None of the weapons required special licenses to purchase or transfer.
At least, that was true of the "Project Gun Runner" weapons which have been reported in the Popular Press (MSM). There were no announcements in the accompanying video which suggest that true "Assault Weapons" were involved in these exchanges.
The National Rifle Association, and Wayne LaPierre in particular, continue to disappoint me. This is exactly why I continue to "Join the NRA" (in hopes that they will someday provide true, sane representation of American Gun-owners) and then invariably fail to renew my membership when they let me down.
I was not impressed by Harlon Carter, and and I have not been impressed by Wayne LaPierre. Even when Charlton Heston was 'honorary' President of the NRA, he went on record stating that he saw no reason why any American would need an M16 or even an AR15.
This goes far beyond the failure of the ATF to screw up the program to entrap gun dealers. It goes directly to the failure of NRA to adequately serve as sane, reasonable representatives of the American Firearms owner.
These people are a blight on the Second Amendment movement. I am not a current member of the NRA (even though these idiots continue to send me their email, after I let my membership lapse last year) because I am embarrassed to admit to my friends and family that they represent me. That implies that they way they present my case for legal firearms ownership is the way that I would present it.
Yes, my friends have been arguing for decades that the NRA is the only consistent force which argues in favor of the Second Amendment.
And I remain embarrassed by our leadership.
It's like being a member of the Republican Party; I'm still disappointed that there are no sane, reasonable, candidates for the 2011 Presidential Election.
I can defend myself against my enemies; can no one save me from my "Friends"?
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