The National Rifle Association is endorsing Republican presidential nominee John McCain.
NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre announced the endorsement Thursday. LaPierre and the chairman of the NRA's political action committee were making stops in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Colorado and Nevada to talk about the move.
The endorsement comes despite differences between the gun-rights lobby and McCain on campaign finance restrictions and gun show rules. But LaPierre says the two agree on many more issues important to the group.
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The following commentary from Wayne LaPierre's blog, "What They Didn't Tell You Today," has been sent to you from NRANews.com. You can access the site at www.nranews.com.
Friday, October 03, 2008 Is Obama Anti-First Amendment Too?
The Obama campaign is now actively trying to silence your voice. They've sent a cease-and-desist letter to television stations in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Ohio, telling them to stop airing an NRA ad that truthfully points out some of Barack Obama's anti-gun positions.
Let me say that again. There is nothing false or inaccurate about the TV ad. The Obama campaign knows they can't win without deceiving gun owners, and the only way to do that is to stop NRA's voice from being heard.
We've sent our own letter to these television stations, defending the ad and fact-checking the Obama campaign. It's sad but not unexpected that Obama would try to shut us up.
He's already shown he's no friend of the Second Amendment. Now he's showing he's no friend of the First, either.
The following commentary from Wayne LaPierre's blog, "What They Didn't Tell You Today," has been sent to you from NRANews.com. You can access the site at www.nranews.com.
Barack Obama's out with a new radio ad designed to deceive hunters, sportsmen and gun owners. The ad claims that gun owners have nothing to worry about, that as president Obama would not affect their Second Amendment rights.
Of course, the ad doesn't mention that Obama supports things like a ban on handguns, an extension of the Clinton Gun Ban, a 500 percent increase in taxes on firearms and ammunition, a ban on the most common hunting ammunition, a ban on gun stores located within five miles of a school or a park, and prosecuting people who use a gun for self-defense in their home.
The ad also doesn't mention the millions of dollars Obama steered towards gun-control groups when he was a member of the Joyce Foundation's board of directors, or his lack of support for increased penalties for those convicted of shooting near a public school.
That's Obama's real record, and that's why he can't tell America's sportsmen and gun owners the truth.
From the letter he sent to the TV station demanding that they remove the ad:
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...Senator Obama voiced his support for the federal assault weapons ban, which was in place from 1994 to 2004. This bill banned only the most vicious types of assault weapons, not the "shotguns and rifles most of us use for hunting,"...
Funny, I didn't realize that a $2,500+ 12 pound Springfield M1A National Match Target Rifle was a "vicious" assault weapon. Mine has never even growled at someone in a threatening manner... ONLY morons focus on the type of firearm rather than the person wielding it.
And, I'm just curious. Why does Obama think that HE should get to define which weapons "most of us use for hunting"? Why should I not be permitted to use a scoped AR-platform black rifle for hunting coyotes, etc.? MANY people do. So what if "MOST" don't?
Anyone who tries to paint Obama as pro-gun (or not anti-gun) is a moron, or is not thinking rationally.
NRA Endoreses MCCain
