Once-relevant music mag tries to “blow the lid off” of country music’s ties to the NRA and their NRA Country brand – and drive a wedge between them . . . Inside Country Music’s Uneasy Relationship With Gun Control
Immediately after the (Las Vegas) shooting, the country music community was overwhelmed with a prevailing sense of silence on the issue of guns, with nary a single recording artist willing to speak publicly about the topic.
Since then, Nashville has slowly, if hesitantly, begun to reflect upon its relationship with firearms. Rolling Stone spoke with a dozen artists and industry veterans about their evolving, often conflicted feelings about country music’s economic and cultural relationship with the gun industry, a relationship informed and made complicated by country’s formal ties to the gun lobby via NRA Country.
Although every artist interviewed for this piece stresses that they’d like to see changes in the nation’s gun laws, they all expect any change in country’s ties to gun culture to be gradual, slow and subtle. “I know the NRA works with artists, and I also know that many artists love to hunt and none of that is necessarily going to change after Las Vegas,” says songwriter Lori McKenna, who’s written hits for Little Big Town and Hunter Hayes. “We can’t change the things that are threaded inside of us that quickly.”
Read the whole thing here.
I found a recent issue of Rolling Stone one of my co workers brought into work, I was leafing through it and discovered they had a “bad to good” style graph on one page, detailing recent political events. Literally everything they listed as being bad/negative I found to be overwhelmingly positive, and the stuff they listed as good/positive I found repugnant and awful. It’s a weird feeling, leafing through a periodical written by people who are almost your exact opposite. I also thought it was weird that political events were being discussed in a magazine that ostensibly covers music, but I guess there’s a lot about liberals that is weird.
IMHO, overall it’s more a question of how much ammo I can practically store.
As far as JHP/expanding/non-FMJ rounds… At least 500 rounds in each pistol and rifle cartridge and several times that in the primary cartridges.
And those country clowns Timmy McGraw and wife will lose their azzes opposing their “fans”. Does ANYONE buy RS on a newstand anymore?!?????
The AK-47 is just a simplified M1 Garand turned upside-down with a magazine attached to the bottom, and worse sights and controls. Alot of people talk about copies of the AK, but very few designs are wholly original in concept.
It’s far too subjective to say, what is more than enough for one person may be not nearly enough for another. I try to keep enough on hand for another shortage, but again that amount is different for everyone.
I disagree with JWT on this one, though. If you have 300 rounds and then shoot 300 rounds you should immediately replace those 300 rounds. Of course I live in the woods far from town so it is a bit more of a hassle for me to make a trip to buy more ammo.
So EVERYTHING including CC ain’t legal in Joizey?!? Oh well…the rotund governor has bupkiss to lose by vetoing this. Unless he plans on turning Dim…
There’s something ineffibly sad about a bunch of superannuated hippies passing judgement on what regular, unenlightened (in the sense of not “lighting up”) folks think. Possibly they forget that their own forebears once inhabited “flyover country” before being driven out by the dustbowl of the 1930s, and herded like cattle to the promised land of Californication. They yearn for the drugged out haze of the 1960s when they were briefly relevant. Neither their opinions nor their pontifications are of any interest to those of us with actual lives to lead, which don’t include anything of interest to them. We have what we need, and we don’t need them.
If this happens I’m going to NYC just to walk around carrying.
199? BC or AD? Or is that not PC enough these days?
this lady who did nothing wrong
in a majority of other states. DoubleB bullshit is what this is. Support your Local Law Enforcement, have nice a day
I’m calling BS on this F$&@ stick oath breaking POS who wraps himself in his uniform in order to try and give legitimacy to his anti gun bullsh%t.
First off idk what the hell M16’s he’s used but the M16 hasn’t been fully automatic since 1985 when the M16A2 was introduced. Second if they’re so inaccurate at over 100 meters then why the hell am I able to hit pop up targets at 300? Third they’re easier to handle than a shotgun and the 5.56 is far more controllable than a 12-gauge shotgun.
And in closing to the good colonel, I qualified Expert on the M16 myself last time I went to the range, and you obviously don’t any sort of military doctrine. You sold your soul to the gun grabbers to try and weasel your way into a position of power to further their agenda, so f&@$ you, a£%*+•#! And no, you’re not in the military anymore so I’m not calling you sir.
And the only thing I apologize for is how all over the place my reply is.
And if anyone wants to accuse me of being a valor thief, I’m not a badass, I’m just a reservist who’s been in since 2008, and I’m an 88M (previously a 91D).
I wonder if RS has discovered that Rap glorifies violence with guns?
“Yes, we glorify guns. But that’s only in our music. In our private lives, we hate guns.” Said no rap ‘artiste’ ever.
Ir’s the hidden ball trick. While we’re busy defending against AMA gungrabbing, doctors are getting away with a million murders and assaults every year.
Physician, fvck thyself.