Comments on: OSD: Surviving Threats to Our Rights Have Only Made the Gun Culture Stronger

By: x marks the spot

x marks the spot — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 13:54:50 +0000

“The Gun Control Act of 1968 led to the NRA’s 1977 overhaul. And for all its faults, the NRA in the couple decades after that was the reason that gun rights had any political pull at all.”

The head of the NRA in 1968 was literally telling people that they were unamerican if they didn’t support the GCA.

By: Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR

Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 20:20:40 +0000

“At the time of the federal AWB, there were less than 700,000 affected rifles in the country. Today, in part because of the backlash to that ban, the installed base is something like 50x number.”

Basic human nature, anytime someone wants something gone, the reflex is to get what they want gone, before it actually is gone is some powerful MoJo.

They are unable, incapable, or unwilling to understand that, when the exact same thing is why banning drugs is a fool’s errand…

By: Nanashi

Nanashi — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:29:51 +0000

In reply to Nanashi. Also laughing at the idea of "only" 35 million rifles in the US today being under the AWB's conditions. Even if we ignore all the firearms able to accept a double stack mag (virtually all full size pistols) as being on the magazine and not the gun, just the three largest makers (Anderson, Aero, PSA) make a million AR receivers for sale as receivers every year. Smith and Wesson make about half a million "rifles" per year as of 2021, when all rifles they made were AWB items. Diamondback is another 133,000 a year. This does not count braced/stockless "pistols" that would fall under AWB

By: Nanashi

Nanashi — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:09:51 +0000

“the NRA in the couple decades after that was the reason that gun rights had any political pull at all.”
Isn’t this when the NRA created the Hughes Amendment and NICS?