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Why Women in Wyoming were the first to win the right to vote!
The constant NRA bashing is ridiculous.
Why do you think the leftists hate them so much? Because they’re so ineffective?
Constantly crapping on the NRA right now is like detail stripping your gun in the middle of a firefight. It is not helping.
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Plunge? Stock analysts seem to have the need to write with all the histrionics of some gun writers that say the world (gun ownership) is coming to an end. I wouldn’t call a 1.31% drop a plunge. More like a small dip. Christ, the yearly high was 11.02 back in September! If they want to know about stocks that have plunged just ask me. I have owned plenty of them! Save the word plunge for drops of 30% or more please.
Still at under 10 I couldn’t help but buy a couple thousand shares. I have no idea if it is a good investment. It all depends on state and federal politics and who can predict that? However, I like to have what I refer to as a sentimental buy now and then. That is a company I like and am interested in. One where the CEO cares about the product and wants to make a good product for the consumer. I think S&W is such a company and I can afford to lose $20K if somehow the company went belly up which I sincerely doubt. Fun money for fun investments. One can’t just live by the numbers all the time.
I’m a middle-age, lower middle-class, white-guy from an extremely rural area. I’m an NRA member, as is my wife. I’ve been around guns my whole life. Everyone around these parts is a gun owner. I think I am your typical NRA member/”gun guy”. Therein lies a problem. Like it or not we are a dying breed. Everytime the family saves enough money to make a road trip to Jay’s Sporting Goods or Bass Pro Shops I see people just like me. While “gun guys” are almost always friendly and a pleasure to talk to I think we need to expand the brand a little. We need independents and centrists on our side. I believe this is the category the majority of Americans fall into. They are neither liberal or conservative but somewhere in between. While I personally don’t mind Beck, I think the NRA is wrong here. The amount of people turned off by Beck and by association the NRA will far outnumber the people Beck will bring in. Just my opinion.
Greatest. Dominoes setup. EVER.
Time to buy S&W stock :);
The NRA is not “right wing” or “left wing.” The NRA defends the Second Amendment, one of the very bedrock principles in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.
Robert, seriously, you need to rethink the idea of left wing or right wing politics. Some issues should transcend politics. The First and Second Amendment are two of those issues.
For everyone who still identifies Right or Left, Democrat or Republican, that means you still think along party lines rather than what is best for the nation. At this point in history, we can ill afford such divisions.
Government is out of control and both parties are complicit in creating the federal leviathan. At least the Democrats are honest in their goals, unlike the GOP, who tend to say one thing, then do another.
While it’s nice to think politicians on one side or another have the best interests of the public at heart, in the end, their own position and power is what matters most, the public be damned.
I had a C&R a while back, must be why I have a Nagent. Lol. Yes there is the 50 year thing but there is also an exceptions list that is a mile long and has everything I really want listed. Frustrating.
Because there are so many other proponents of smaller government and individual freedoms who reach record audiences, right? Because Beck is crazy for warning us against the perils of Progressivism and all of his themes tooootally contradict the beliefs of most of this site’s materials and opinions?
Beck is anti-Establishment Republican, anti-Progressive and pro-Libertarian. Gosh, what a nut job. No readers (or bloggers) on this site would ever dare think our government would try to take away our freedoms, right?
I suspect anyone referring to GB as a nutjob hasn’t actually formed that opinion on their own without hearing it from Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow first, nor have they heard him speak aside from select YT clips.
Sure there are other charismatic speakers the NRA can use to reach out to minority groups, but Beck has legions of loyal followers and will draw huge crowds. Period. Do you want to turn them away, tell them their dollars and votes don’t help the cause because they happen to agree with a lot of what Beck has to say? Your criticisms of Beck sound an awful lot like the other broken-record elitists in the Northeast.
I agree that demographics are indeed changing and we need to bring new groups into our ranks, but sentiments like those expressed above only perpetuate the feeling among many white males in this country that our votes don’t matter, our disposable incomes don’t matter, and our political views don’t matter. Advertisers, political campaigners and the evening news have all made it very clear that it’s not trendy to be a conservative white male. Let’s try to keep the gun industry from going that way too. After all, as you mentioned earlier, we ARE the gun industry.
The government has no one to blame for the rise of anti-government sentiment but itself. What do you expect people to do when you destroy their nation and rob them of rights?
That act is the perfect slippery slope to tyranny.
Step 1: Enact it
Step 2: Put anyone you disagree with on the “terror watch list.”
Step 3: Tyranny.
The neighbors get my 10-22’s and the like. The serious calibers stay home, yet they won’t be completely defenseless.
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Robert Farago thank you for making notable and important points about the how the NRA must reach beyond its core constituancy to educate and influence the thinking of those who are uninformed about the legitimacy of the 2A and the character of mainstream lawful gun owners.
Conservatives are notoriously deficient about lobbying and persuading the masses almost inversely to the extent that liberals are successful at it.
Emily Miller? Allen West? I’d even take Ted Nugent at this point. I’m a 30-something new gun owner and I cannot stand Beck. I listen to Rush and Levin, but I do not see the benefit of appealing to the OFWG segment. Look, shooting and firearms owners are a changing demographic. Get the new CCW owner on board, the woman who boug her first gun because she works late, the young non-white couple that bought their first pump action… Those people have to be convinced of the NRA’s value. And dragging Beck out for a third time won’t do it.
All those dots?
They are RED Dots!
Ms. Diane Feinstein placed last at the 1897 Junior Women’s Indoor Nationals and vowed to make it her life’s work to stop others from enjoying the shooting sports.
If we place SRO’s into every school, they are no longer the same deterrent as if one school has them when the next one does not. the shooter will just assume this as the norm and deal with it. Just like they deal with locked doors or metal detectors.
we need to make a school to be no-more of a target as your local mall. this does not exclude cops or SROs or undercover security but I think the first step needs to be to remove the gun-free zone aspect for adults in schools. If the adults want to carry just as they do outside the school, fine. If they choose to attend special training, make it available to them.
at least here in FL, one in ~18 people have a cwp. if that ratio is just slightly increased by offering discounts, educations, training to school employees, you could offset the large ratio of minors, compared to a mall. with that making it no more attractive as a target than any place else.
I don’t have much problem with minor students facing stiffer penalties for bringing actual guns to school but the blanket approach of the current gunfree zones is not working. punishing students does not require laws, the schools already have those powers.
Ralph, at the end of this article you said “In our exciting conclusion, we’ll gussy up the furniture, also without altering the rifle.” Does that mean there is a part 4? I certainly hope so! I’ve just recently fallen in love with this Russian Supermodel. I’ve named mine Natalya. I thoroughly enjoyed all three articles. It sounds like we have a similar sense of humor. Keep up the good work! До следующий раз друг! Будьте здоровы!
Seems like the time to invest… a couple ways. Maybe pick up a little bit of stock. And also one of their sw1911 pro series sub-compacts. Only problem with that is that TTAG hasn’t done a review of that particular model. How do I know the truth about it!!
“We gotta do something, before its to late” We do, if you try to kill people or threaten the president you go to jail. By the way, SPLS says if you oppose gay marriage you are a hate groupe. I guess that means the whole Catholic Church.
Nice. Is that the aftermarket stock y’all reviewed from SHOT show? I like it but it dosnt look very erogonamic in terms of the (pistol?) grip. Id like to try it out though.
From his facebook account:
He wrote:
“There are web sites posting my personal information, my moms address, my dads address, and other family members. Other than to be malicious and put people close to me in danger why would someone do this? These are supposed to be the peaceful people. I crack jokes but never attack people on a personal level. Ironically, now I really feel the need to arm my family and friends. #IsItBecauseImBlack?”