PN> PN> Last time I looked it wasn't the NRA that wrote legislation.
PN> GP> NRA wrote the Armor Piercing bullet ban.  In fact, they reseructed a
PN> GP> dead AP bill & used their might to help ram it through.  Thanks, NRA.
PN> GP> Based on this new precedent, will NRA next sponsor a ball ammo ban?
PN> GP> Think about it!
PN> I have thought about it.  And here's the rest of the story: the
PN> original legislation as conceived by the agf-pukes would have outlawed
PN> a virtual raft of ammunition -- such that all these guns would have
PN> been worthless because any ammo would have been restricted.
Had the NRA left the content of the original bill alone and just
fought against it, I believe that the bill would have looked so
ridiculous that it would not have passed at all.
Instead of letting the ridiculous bill go down in flames, the NRA
"helped" and turned a bill that could be defeated into a bill
that could pass.
I don't agree with all that Putnam says, but I'm starting to see
his point on this.  In the AP bullet ban affair, NRA actually
helped the anti-gunners to not look stupid.
In the NRA's defense, and as Ernest Padgette pointed out, that
Board of Directors from back then is not there now.  But the new
NRA board has done basically the same with the Brady Bill and the
Terror bill.
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