-=> Quoting Wyatt Dooley to Guy Putnam <=-
 JP> Let me suggest to you that:
 JP> A:  It's always easier to defeat a bad law **BEFORE** it's passed than
 JP> it is to get it repealed or overturned.
 WD> this is true
 
 GP> Then, exactly why did NRA support passage of the Fascist Terror Bill? 
 GP> NRA supported the 1986 machine gun manufacturing ban, but promptly
 GP> promised to get it repealed.  Now, its 1996 . . . . . .
 WD> if you know ahead of time that it's going to pass you agree to it
 WD> that way you don't look like you lost.  keep up appearances.
Oh brother . . . .  somebody pass me a puke-bag?
 WD> had they been able to vote on it do you think that it would
 WD> pass?
If NRA _supported_ it, that means they would have voted for it if they
could have, don't you think?
 WD> There was no way that these two bills were not going to pass
 WD> the NRA has no vote in congress, they did what they could
 WD> but some people are not satisfied with the efforts of those
 WD> NOT in power.
The May 1986 machine gun manufacturing ban was attached to NRA's _own_
McClure/Volkmer Bill.  NRA could have easily have killed their own bill,
don't you think?  But no . . . NFA sacrificed machine gun owners so that we
didn't have to sign out for our ammo anymore.  And, oh yes, we can now go
buy our shotguns out of state.  The MG ban set a precident for opening the
door for the semi-auto rifle ban, which carried the magazine ban with it. 
Then, as you will recall, NRA supported Jack Brooks against Steve Stockman. 
Brooks was Chair of the Judiciary Committee, the one man who could have
killed the rifle/magazine bill in his committee.  He chose to let it out
because he knew he would be rewarded by NRA & its members' money, anyway.
Fortunately, Texas voters were smarter than NRA "leadership."
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