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In reply to the discussion: Wayne LaPierre Referred To 9000 Gun Laws That Aren't Being Enforced... [View all]farminator3000
(2,117 posts)before you work up momentum! (you mean the GOPers PAID BY the NRA)
http://gunvictimsaction.org/blog/2013/01/the-nra-hates-gun-regulations-except-when-it-loves-gun-regulation/
The NRA hates the governments jackbooted agents and loves to whip up its wild-eyed prepper population. Yet the NRA has quietly enacted a lot of regulations of its own which it relies on the same government jackbooted agents to enforce. Who can say hypocrite?
The NRA has embargoed government agencies from analyzing gun data. The true toll of gun violence on society is an unknownand the NRA likes it that way....
The gun lobbys Tiahrt Amendment restricts law enforcement officials from fully accessing and using Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) gun trace data. Clerks at the ATF literally write records by hand, circa 1950, because the gun lobby says an automated database would pose a threat to the Second Amendment. ...
The NRA has blocked technology to produce smart guns that only operate in their owners possession, like smart cars.
The NRA actually got a program passed to help people whose gun purchasing rights were revoked petition for them to be restored. Felons Finding It Easy to Regain Gun Rights, said a chilling New York Times report in November of 2011.
Even though the NRA got laws passed that make it legal for employees to bring their guns to work and leave them in the company parking lot, that is not enough.
In similar micro-managing behavioral legislation, the NRA is trying to make it illegal for doctors to ask patients if they have guns in the home. Its none of their business, says the NRA though it will probably permit doctors to stitch together victims of home accidents from the guns they cant ask about.
Thanks to NRA lobbying, gun manufacturers cannot be sued. Unlike Big Tobacco or Big Pharma,