What the heck is the NRA doing for us in California?

[dfletcher]

We added another Nevada to the union?


Out of all the people I know living in California that are gun owners only 20% are NRA members. As for me I'm a Lifetime NRA member. I've donated to NRA and CalGuns foundation in the past and will do so again. I may not shout it from the rooftops post it everywhere but I have donated before.
There are many reasons we as gun owners are losing the fight overall.

I think NV bears watching and being careful. I used to live in NV and the influence of LV on gun control isn't positive. The Bloomberg group is pushing UBC in this November election, I really don't know which way it will go.

NV gun laws are legislators are great compared to CA. But the more and more populous LV gets the more difficult it is for smaller towns to offset the influence.

[chris]

I visit OR often, about a dozen times a year for the past +17 years, and plan on retiring there. There's some truth to "OR is getting like CA" but consider this - what happened in OR after the Roseburg shooting, and compare it to CA and San Bernadino.

There was little or no anti-gun push in OR after Roseburg. The leaders and elected officials in the area publicly refuted calls for gun control, as did the residents. And they pitched a fit when the President and crew arrived to make political hay of the event.

The population centers in OR are a challenge, no doubt. But let's not write off OR as inevitably giving in to CA style gun control.

I didn't write Oregon off at all. but it was like that here before. Not much in gun control from about 76 to 89 then all hell broke loose. It doesn't take much for it to spread either. The fact of the matter is that these laws do spread. Do they get enacted as law some yes some no. It's incremental as we all have seen. For almost 30 years this state has had an absolute boner for AW's and magazines. In 2016 they banned the possession of those magazines. What's next is anyone's guess but I can tell this for a fact it won't be pretty and gun owners in California will lose and lose big time.

Either take heed as to what California is like now or do nothing and let your state become like this one.

I for one will not retire like yourself in this state.

[KING_PALM]

Once the NRA starts fighting against NFA regulations such as the Hughs amendment then I'll care. Till then they get my 24 bucks a year

[chris]

Once the NRA starts fighting against NFA regulations such as the Hughs amendment then I'll care. Till then they get my 24 bucks a year

good luck with that.

[KING_PALM]

good luck with that.

My point exactly

[readysetgo]

Once the NRA starts fighting against NFA regulations such as the Hughs amendment then I'll care. Till then they get my 24 bucks a year

good luck with that.

My point exactly

Chicken or the egg? How do we expect them to take on extra tasks without extra resources. Doesn't make sense kingpalm.

[Paladin]

All I hear are crickets right now while we drown in gun control laws.

It's funny whenever low post count "members" show up to bash the NRA and show everyone else they're not even smart enough to read the stickies at the top of this very forum....

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=832289

[skuehl]

All I hear are crickets right now while we drown in gun control laws.

The NRA needs to focus on where they can have an impact. Cali is a lost cause until voters get their crap together and oust people like Harris, Brown, Feistein, De Leon just to name a few. As there are so many.

Plus you factor in Los Angeles (Hollywood) and all the anti gun actors and people in the movie industry and big business that capitalize on the gun culture and then San Fran area with its mostly anti gun politicians, constituents and big business in Silicon Valley.

I'm surprised when I hear questions like this.

If you want to see change it has to come from the people/voters first.


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[Bushwack44]

IMO the NRA gave up on California 2-3 years ago. For now, they make an 'appearance' once in awhile not to lose California membership

[2Aon2wheels]

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[Noble Cause]

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Noble

[sbrady@Michel&Associates]

IMO the NRA gave up on California 2-3 years ago. For now, they make an 'appearance' once in awhile not to lose California membership

I'm just curious, did you read Noble Cause's post above (#16) before making this statement?

If not, do you have the integrity to do so and then comment in light of having read it?

If you did and still made this comment, then are you:

(A) of the belief that multiple lawsuits and demand letters, lobbying full time at the Legislature, assisting ranges, lobbying the Fish & Game Commission for hunters (among many other actions) constitutes "an 'appearance' once in awhile"?

(B) denying that NRA took those actions? or

(C) an anti-NRA troll?

[sbrady@Michel&Associates]

Once the NRA starts fighting against NFA regulations such as the Hughs amendment then I'll care. Till then they get my 24 bucks a year

You keep praying for that shiny, new machine gun, bud, while the legislature is being allowed to make possession of common SEMI-AUTO rifles a felony, keep common models of S&W, Ruger, Glock, etc. HANDGUNS out of this state, prohibit you from having a magazine over 10 rounds (not much fun for machine guns), and make ammo so expensive via regulation that you would have to be a millionaire to afford shooting a machine gun.

I mean, really? That's your critique?

The courts with jurisdiction over this state won't let us carry handguns WITH A LICENSE.

[chris]

Chicken or the egg? How do we expect them to take on extra tasks without extra resources. Doesn't make sense kingpalm.

it makes sense to him until the NRA gets those laws repealed he wont do anything. that is why I said good luck with that. because those laws will not be repealed. the NRA is busy fighting off the BS we have today and try and stop what will surely come in the future.

So he'll happily sit on the fence and watch others do the work for him.

[wtm75]

They're keeping most of the rest of the country from becoming the absolute sewer that we've allowed California to become. That's what they're doing. What else can they do?

How about attacking the cancer at the source? If you eradicate the cancer at the source, you do not have to worry about it spreading right?

They have had years where they could have attacked CA and NY's AWB and nipped it in the bud when we had a majority in SCOTUS and there were no mass shootings to sway the public and they did nothing. What happened later. MD and CT made their own bans. Colorado passed their own laws. Who would have thought Colorado would have antigun control? The cancer spread.

Instead of sending us CD's, pens, and hats to their members, they could have been running commercials or mailing letters educating the public the difference between a real assault weapon and the one they define. The majority of the citizens of this country think our AR's fire full auto and support the ban not knowing that the AR is the same as that wooden hunting rifle.

In NY, when we had our lawsuit, the NRA sent only $80000 to fund the lawsuit led by the NYSPRA. They also only sent $5000 in campaign contributions to Astorino who promised to attack this AWB and only lost by a 9 percent margin with hardly no money to Cuomo.

It's funny. NY and CA have the most NRA memberships yet they are written off.

I'm done. "No taxation without representation!"