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2016 Postmortem

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doc03

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5. You know if you think about it there are very few gun owners that
Sat Jan 12, 2013, 12:43 AM
Jan 2013

actually belong to the NRA. There couldn't be more than one out of twenty that are members of the NRA. They have been claiming the same 4 million members for the last 30 years. Every time the gun issue pops up they claim they are signing new members by the hundred thousand if that was true they would have be 10 million members by now. Their power comes from the arms industry not their members and I never really thought about it but they want semi-autos because they use up more ammo. It's like Gillette every once in a while they send you a free razor so you will buy their overpriced blades.

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