Don White wrote:
"jps" wrote in message
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Gun owners and the NRA may not be on same page

Hard to know who to root for and who to hiss when you run across a
stand-off between notorious Republican strategist Frank Luntz and the
scare-mongering behemoth otherwise known as the National Rifle
Association.

This round, let's listen to Luntz:

Mr. Luntz queried 832 gun owners, including 401 card-carrying N.R.A.
members, in a survey commissioned by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the
alliance of hundreds of executives seeking stronger gun laws. In flat
rebuttal of N.R.A. propaganda, the findings showed that 69 percent of
N.R.A. members supported closing the notorious gun-show loophole that
invites laissez-faire arms dealing outside registration requirements.

Even more members, 82 percent, favored banning gun purchases to
suspects on terrorist watch lists who are now free to arm. And 69
percent disagreed with Congressionally imposed rules against sharing
federal gun-trace information with state and local police agencies.

So ... a majority of gun owners want the gun-show loophole closed,
favor restrictions on banned gun purchases and think it's a good idea
to have gun information shared between agencies. Makes you wonder how
reasonable their views would be if they weren't being pumped up by
propaganda and warned to lock and load every election by the rich gun
lobby.

Posted by SusanG at Kos.

A reasonable person might assume that the NRA is owned & run by the gun
manufacturers.
Any responsible gun owner shouldn't object to stringent regulations to keep
firearms out of the hands of criminals, unstable or violent people etc.



We have fairly stringent regs in Maryland. We have the federal "instant
check," of course, but we also have a state police check and a 10-day
waiting period for the purchase of handguns. It should also apply to
long guns, but it doesn't.

All this is made moot, though, by the fact that anyone, even someone
from out of state, can buy rifles and pistols at gun shows in Virginia
without any checks, thanks to the so-called gun show loophole. And
anyone includes retards like JustHate and psychos like Froggy.