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AndyTiedye

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13. The NRA is Rather Selective in It's Criticism of Gun Grabbers

Reply to Lasher (Reply #12)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 07:42 PM

Jan 2013

Both Bush's supported the AWB. Bush I signed an executive order banning AK47s and some other rifles.
The AWB was based on Bush I's executive order.

Bush II signed the Patriot Act, which probably did more to restrict our freedoms (including those related to carrying weapons)
more than any other recent legislation.

Did the NRA go after them? NO!
Why not, you may ask?

The NRA is not really the lobby for gun owners, it is the lobby for gun makers.
Nothing is better for their business than a nice big war, and both Bushes obliged them by starting wars.

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