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2A lawsuits everywhere!
I've been too busy to blog very much, this is big news. Since NYSRPA v. Bruen, 2A challenges (and often wins) have been popping up everywhere!
SAF wins ruling that a government housing authority can't ban firearms possession.
FPC and SAF win preliminary injunction against California, and its plan to share gun owner information.
Goldwater Institute sues Illinois, succeeds in speeding up their permit (FOID card) process.
Defendant wins dismissal of charges based on a gun with a removed serial number
SAF and FPC sue NY state over gun bans in (willing) churches.
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NRA is not a factor anymore. They're spending over $30 million a year on lawyers, but it's not going for the second amendment. Look at this
Sirs,
I have no idea about these rumors that have become popular internet gossip, but I do know that the NRA had been under near continuous, vituperative verbal assault since before I became a member back in the late 1960s.
For some time after 1974, the NRA did a good job of advocacy. However, since about 1999 or 2000, the NRA's work has become flaccid if not feeble, mostly being political and ad hominem attacks on liberals and the gun control lobby. This has garnered no credibility with the general public.
I think that in the long term of pro-firearms rights, one might want to allow for a large long-term organization to not lose its public recognition, until it must be so and there is a step-in. I do not see the ability to provide a national convention stage elsewhere at this point in time. There are many very good firearms' rights organizations currently taking the mantle and forwarding the fight, indeed I would say in some cases more effectively (and without some questionable compromises). Very good. But let's not cannibalize ourselves unneccesarily. Let the NRA's current troubles work themselves out to where they will be. In these days of anti-firearms ideologues seeking to wipe the slate of history so as to start anew in more areas than just firearms, be very careful in leaving behind the achievements of and historical entrenchment in the hearts and minds, to risk unmooring from such a pier, potentially endangering the smaller docks to be more easily picked off in the long run.
"Let the NRA's current troubles work themselves out to where they will be."
I don't disagree, however the fact is that any money given to NRA right now is wasted. The NRA board has demonstrated itself to be ineffective in reigning in a thoroughly corrupt leadership, the lawyers the leadership have hired have proven themselves completely inept and it is clear that neither the board nor leadership has any interest in fixing the problems.
Let the NRA figure out their "current troubles" and in the meantime, I'll be putting my money into organizations that are using that money to protect and defend our rights rather than to protect and defend a few people who seem to feel that gun owners should be happy to act as their own personal piggy bank.
To be clear, I'm an NRA life member and have been an NRA firearms instructor for close to two decades. I strongly support the NRA's mission and I sincerely hope that the organization comes out of this free of the corruption that has plagued it in recent years, but until it get's it's collective crap in one sock, there are many organizations out there doing good work that will put our investments to much better use.
SAF and GPC and everyone else seem to be actively filing suits. Where is the NRA, to which I've been donating all these years? They seem completely quiet.