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[PABuck_HNTR]

Dear Friend,

How low can the NRA go? This low.


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Following Ronald Reagan's death, the NRA called Sarah and Jim Brady liars for saying that President Reagan supported and fought for the ban on assault weapons. Never mind that Jim Brady, who was shot alongside Ronald Reagan, should know where the president stood on this issue. Never mind that President Reagan signed a letter urging Congress to ban assault weapons. But what else would you expect from an organization that wants to put AK-47s back on the street?

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National organizations are lining up in favor of renewing the Assault Weapons Ban. Here are just a few:

National League of Cities
US Conference of Mayors
National Association of Counties
US Conference of Catholic Bishops
National Education Association
American Bar Association
NAACP
Church Women United
Episcopal Church, USA
American Public Health Association
National Association of Social Workers

Here's what Robert A. Ricker, former assistant General Counsel to the NRA, says about the Assault Weapons Ban and the NRA:

"[L]awmakers are catching on to the gun lobby's emperor-has-no-clothes vulnerability... I can tell you firsthand that the power of the gun lobby is more perception than reality. After all, there are 80 million gun owners in America; only 4 million are NRA members. And many of these join only to get the gun magazines or insurance. They believe in the Second Amendment but understand that an AK-47 isn't a hunting rifle... Given this dynamic, my advice to Bush is: Stop dancing with the devil... The gun lobby doesn't have the power to protect you if you let new American-made Uzis, AK-47s and Tec-9s flood America's streets. Voters won't buy a 'blame Congress' excuse. They'll blame you."

Latest NRA outrage:

Recently the NRA announced a plan to sidestep the new campaign finance laws. The New York Times reported yesterday that "In a direct challenge to federal limits on political advocacy, the National Rifle Association plans to begin broadcasting a daily radio program."

Will they stop at nothing?


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[Aught Six]

I'm convinced that these writers took notes from history's most notorious communist propaganda organizations. They really know how to butter it up with emotional leftist rhetoric.

[Charlie P]

What was RR opinion on the AWB?

[Aught Six]

Here's a good bit of information.

http://www.nra.org/Article.aspx?id=224

[PABuck_HNTR]

What was RR opinion on the AWB?

It was covered in another post already!

I have a copy of a letter on the front cover of an American Rifleman Magazine from April 1985 that Reagan wrote to The NRA. It shows to me his support of the NRA was his own not just automatically given a Life Membership from the NRA.

The only thing the NRA gave Reagan was an Honorary Life Membership awarded to only 19 previous people up untill Reagan. That could be what Brady was claiming. But her facts weren't straight as usual.

I beleive it was JagMagMan who posted a lenghty article on Reagan that should set you straight.

[JagMagMan]

Hey F4YG, did my e-mail ever get through?
If not, the article was from the 500th. edition issue of Guns and Ammo, November 2001.
It was originally published in September of 1975!
As to RR and the AWB, he was totally in favor of keeping and interpreting the Second Amendment, as it is written, and he was a firm supporter of the law abiding citezens right to defend life, and property with firearms! That pretty much tells me he was against AWB! I am not sure that he was in command of himself when the term "assault weapon" was coined!

[PABuck_HNTR]

Jag, No never got an email, but thanks for posting it here. What does it really matter to these people what Reagan thought now after he's gone and has been out of the Whitehouse for so long? Why not worry about Who Made it Law and who might make it law again and react to those threats? Sometimes i just don't get some of these guys.

[8mm/06]

Here's Reagan's entire 6-6-83 speech to the NRA membership in Phoenix from start to finish, without any commentary.

http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resourc...983/50683c.htm