This was how Tanya Metaksa of the NRA explained it to me, so don’t give me any crap about me being anti-NRA.

Yes, they will throw their members under the bus. No doubt about it.

/yeah, ammo situation is bad. Demand has spiked since the election. Just like the stock market performance, it’s another leading indicator of the public’s confidence in the Obama administration. i.e., the stock market is based upon what investors think will happen in the future — they are showing they do not believe the Messiah is going to help the economy or recovery. Analogously, Gun owners are buying everything they can get their hands on now because they don’t believe The One’s statement that he supports the second amendment (or at least that he supports it in the way we think support for the second amendment means)

The Attorney General position can create a lot of problems for gun-rights advocates over the next four years.

Exactly. I would argue that the AG is the only appointment that the NRA should be concerned about. No one but a Supreme Court Justice can have as much of an impact on gun rights. Have we forgotten Janet Reno so soon?

One big sporting goods store I went to was stocking shotgun shells. I looked at the rifle ammo section, and it was blown out. I asked them when they were going to stock the rifle section, and they said they just did.

Even Midway USA is blown out, as is Cheaper Than Dirt. Things are already getting ugly on the ammo front.

Keep your stinking paws off my guns you damn dirty apes liberals.

PappaMac on January 13, 2009 at 1:13 PM

Fixed it for you!

Looks like we are on our own for real now.

Cowards.

-Dave

Is it possible that the NRA is saving their brownie points to fight things like H. R. 1022? This bill is the reinstitution of the Scary Looking Gun Act, but adding more weapons and features, eliminating the sunset clause (and from what I’ve heard but haven’t found yet) allow the AG to add guns to the prohibited list at his discression.
Additionally, they have to look at the one’s stated intention of eliminating ccw nationally.

Catseye on January 13, 2009 at 1:02 PM

What is more scary is the attempt to control ammunition.

The NRA would be better off flexing its muscles here rather than keeping its powder dry. The Attorney General position can create a lot of problems for gun-rights advocates over the next four years.

The problem here is that from a gun rights perspective, any liberal is going to be equally bad in the AG post. They will all push for stricter enforcement of gun laws, will increase prosecutions of gun dealers for technical infractions of gun dealer laws, and will argue in the courts for whatever gun control laws exist out there. Maybe Holder has been a bit more outspoken about it, but there’s no evidence to believe that Holder has a huge bug up his butt about guns, and will go excessively far out of his way to use his office to reduce gun rights.

Where NRA needs to focus its attention is at the Congressional level and directly to Obama, to prevent an assault weapons ban from being passed or other serious gun control measures. And if NRA jumps up and down and screams at Holder, all they will do is lose any possibility they have of persuading Democrats to keep their mitts off our guns.

Even sissies with GUNS! Ouch!

beththebaker on January 13, 2009 at 10:33 AM

On hold at NRA right now (member) to find out wtf is going on. I keep wondering if they feel that one of Holder’s other ethical and intellectual limitations are going to keep him out of office.

Being stupid and corrupt seems like a bad combination, even for the Obama administration. And they still have that bus warming up.

Who’s abusing the Constitution now?

If they don’t want to do so here, I’d credit that to strategy rather than cowardice — mistaken strategy, I think, but still a strategic decision.

I believe the proper word is “stragedy”.

While the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the District’s ban on handguns, they also made it clear that the Constitution allows for reasonable restrictions on access to firearms. As Justice Scalia said, “the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.” When the dust settles, most Americans — and I believe even most in the gun violence prevention movement — will come to see that there are some positives in this decision.

Elected officials will no longer be able to use a mistaken, absolutist misreading of the Second Amendment as an excuse to do nothing about gun violence in our country. Politicians can’t hide behind the Second Amendment anymore.

Whose definition of reasonable? Holders?

I almost hope the Dems do try a big gun grab. They’d lose seats over it.

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Not to mention that anything the Dems try to do is foiled by their complete incompetence and blatant corruption.

If the Dems try and grab guns, it’ll go just as most of their counterproductive programs run and end up in a net increase in gun ownership.

Might cost us a few extra bucks in bribes, but hey, that’s the cost of doing business in the United States of Chicago.

Thanks a lot Hatch. God how do we have so many rats in this Party?

WisCon on January 13, 2009 at 10:57 AM

The same way we have moronic idiots in PA., OH., VA., FL., MN., that voted for a EMPTY SUIT with ZERO experience, a RADICAL LEFTIST that hates America… That’s how…

With the gradual uncovering of tidbits about Holder’s ties to Blago and other potential conflicts, the NRA might just be letting the nomination unravel itself.

If the NRA is naive enough to think that the Democrats are going to investigate themselves, that the media will press them or that the Republicans are going to raise a big stink over the first black AG in American history, then they are clearly delusional and unworthy of my membership.