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it certainly looks like the gun control lobby and gun manufacturers lobby are in symbiosis.
by wolf550e 10y ago
it certainly looks like the gun control lobby and gun manufacturers lobby are in symbiosis.
- hga 10y agoHeh, something like the Baptist and Bootlegger's alliance? From someone who's been in this fight since the early '70s, nope, the gun manufacturers' lobby, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF, http://nssf.org/ http://nssf.org/), is a very small political player. The gun owners lobby, especially the NRA, yes, the appearance of symbiosis is to a great extent true, but that took decades to achieve, not until the 1977 Cincinnati Revolt, and it wasn't until the 1994 "assault weapons" ban that a Federal gun control law was passed without the NRA's blessing. We're much bigger, gun and ammo manufacturing isn't a very big industry as these things go. 5 million people in the NRA, at least half the people in the US (last survey, 45% willing to admit to it)? Much larger.