Did the NRA sell out other pro-gun groups on the DISCLOSE bill?

[bk43]

seems to me that in their zeal to protect their own interests, they lost sight of the big picture (the Bill of Rights as a whole) and played some inside the beltway politics.

I don't think anyone here is going to disagree with you that all of our unalienable rights are important or that they are increasingly coming under attack. The issue is where the NRA should be focused. An honest difference of opinion there is no problem in this corner.

Bob

 

[jtpur]

The NRA did cop out and its disgusting,

 

[oldRoger]

Single issue means what it says; I disagree with the NRA on many political issues. I don't disagree about where they must focus their efforts. I support them precisely because they are single issue.
The Disclose Bill, had it passed could have become a matter of institutional survival for the NRA. It was IMO necessary for them to get this exemption.
I don't agree with the tactics because they could have joined with other organizations to pressure the Democrats pushing Disclose. But, not being on the inside I don't know that they were not joining others. In fact IMO Disclose went down because the NRA got the exemption and organizations like the ACLU did not.
Imagine a left wing congressman trying to explain the NRA exemption to the ACLU....

 

[ancient-one]

I have been a member for 44 years and have had a few disagreements with NRA policies. I support the NRA for the following reason. It is my belief, having for years been a part of their many battles, that if not for the NRA, there would be no civilian ownership of firearms and on this and other forums we would be discussing the guns we used to have, not the ones we now own or are buying. Think, before you play into the hands of those who would like to see the NRA fail.

 

[saturner1]

I also support the single issue stance of the NRA, but should this be done by throwing all the other smaller state and national gun organizations under a bus? Is the NRA going to put the same effort into state issues like the VCDL does? They even put the TSRA under the bus, when the TSRA has it's nose so far up the rear part of the NRA that it makes me want to puke. The NRA is playing politics on the big stage and has caved in to get an easy win. I personally wouldn't support them, but have to be a member, to belong to my shooting club. I find it hard to believe that the stanch NRA supporters on this forum find the NRA's recent actions the correct thing to do. Yes, the NRA got it's way but at what cost? JMHO

 

[oldRoger]

First; DISCLOSE would have had little to do with local organizations unless they did politicking at the national level.
The NRA didn't throw anyone under the bus, it was the Pelosi bunch doing the throwing. The NRA people were just trying to save their skins.I suppose it would have been noble of the NRA to jump also, noble but not politics.

I certainly did not agree with the tactics or strategy used by the NRA here. I don't think you can make a bargain with the devil and expect him to keep his end. I would have expected the NRA to get the short end anyway.

In any case there is no way that this was going to get through congress, an exemption fro the NRA but not for the Brady Bunch? The libs would have had a fit.