The NRA is a Republican ancillary organization.
NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre is a right wing extremist Republican.
http://www.washingtonspectator.org/index.php/Blog/entry/the-nra-big-badass-and-flush-with-cash.html
At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington in February, LaPierre promised that his organization will help make Barack Obama a one-term president.
As the NRA is a Republican Party ancillary organization, it should be no surprise that a Republican state rep, Dennis Baxley, who is a lifetime member of the organization sponsored the stand-and-shoot bill seven years ago in Florida.
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It is semi-auto only.
It does NOT have a detachable magazine. Internal magazine is limited to eight rounds.
It does not have a pistol grip.
It does not have a flash suppressor.
It does not have a collapseable stock.
It does not have a grenade launcher.
It does have a bayonet lug.
And if you screw up loading it, it will mash and bruise your thumb. Many GIs and Marines learned the hard way by getting an M1 thumb.
The M1s are to be sold through the Civilian Marksmanship Program (A Federal program), NOT by some firm looking for a quick buck.
Here is a picture of the rifle that was designed in the late 1930s:
Although I am not a single-issue voter, I am very displeased by Obama's stance on guns.
The OP wasn't by me. Just thought those who are finding the growing presence of gun militancy in General Discussion perturbing (since there are no longer moderators to flush the Guns forum denizens back to their gungeon) might want to see/add to that thread, for instance. 
Rush Limbaugh would frequent. 
hey, but if you want to vote for a Republican, i challenge you to be forthright about it.
But by now we're used to being tarred with that brush.
Grew up in rural Virginia, fourth generation UMWA miner. My great-grandfather was a union organizer at Maetwan and War Eagle, a justice of the peace then deputy sheriff for forty years in Buchanan County, and was a crack shot. Both he and my great grandmother kept a handgun on their nightstands. 38 special for him, 32 for her.
This is me as a kid with him-
My grandfather spent twenty-five years in the mines, my father 15 before having a rock fall on his back, putting him out of work for five years. He still has a cough that makes people cringe when they hear it.
I walked the picket line in 1989 at the Pittston strike, I went door-to-door for Jackie Stump, handing out write-in sample ballots. We faced security guards armed with automatic weapons, and were routinely harassed by Virginia State Troopers. We were beaten, kicked, shoved, arrested, had our cars vandalized, our utilities were cut (in the dead of winter in the appalachian mountains), and were ran off the road by coal trucks.
I worked three years above ground and one below before getting out.
And as for my bona fides- as I said recently to Paladin, who never misses an opportunity to declare us gungeon regulars 'right wing'--
[div class='excerpt']I daresay I've done more, in more campaigns, in more states to support our party than you have. I was in a union picket line before I could stand. I handed out buttons and fliers when I was ten. I've worked on four different campaigns for representatives in Virginia (3 delegates, one senate). I was the co-chair of the Young Democrats at the Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia for three years. I registered at least a hundred dem college students to vote during that time.
In Tennessee, I was assistant to the secretary of the democratic party of knox county for a year. Between 1993 and 1996, I can't count the hours I spent canvassing for candidates, ferrying people to polls, helping register poor and minority voters, and lobbying for democratic measures in the city council- whether it was additional funding for city facilities, decrying racist policies of the KPD, or helping raise support for a new bond initiative to support the emporium (performing arts center).
In 2008, I put 650 miles on my wife's car ferrying mostly elderly and poor voters to the polls- from the time early voting started all the way through the day of the election. I phone banked and stuffed envelopes for Bill White in 2010, as well as putting another 400 miles on our vehicles. I *still* hear from a few of those elderly voters when they need help (the most recent was a korean war vet who needed a ride to the VA center in Arlington.)
But I had no special authority, was in no special danger. No more so than anyone who works outside their home.
we exist alright...and in much larger numbers than you and the rest of the antis can imagine.
[div class='excerpt']The Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution.
Seems pretty straightforward to me.
