American Rifleman Warning

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I am sure many, if not most of us here are NRA members and subscribe to American Rifleman.

However, I just want to post this, just in case some folks don't know the deal yet.

President Sigler's column has warned all readers of this very important issue.

American Hunters and Shooters Association is not really a friend of the 2nd Amendment. They are actually a bogus "organization" working against us and everything we worked so hard to achieve. Posted on second page of June issue of American Rifleman.

If anybody is a member of the AHSA, PLEASE LEAVE THEM NOW. They are sugar coated and may look like candy on the outside, but their inside is filled with venom.
 
It seems they've been mentioned here before:

http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=372077
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=215868
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=195542
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=246384
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=218779
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=272261
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=219494
http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=150420
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=211761
http://www.thehighroad.org/showpost.php?p=3144095&postcount=34
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=236818
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=263741
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=295941
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=240774

I suppose mentioning it again can't hurt.
 
OK, sorry for the duplicate.

I actually got time to read June's edition of AR, and saw the President's Column.

Mods, feel free to lock this.
 
Only one of two of those threads mention the recent NRA article. The rest are some of the longer threads discussing that group from the past two years.

Also, for those looking for more info, the current Wikipedia article seems pretty good:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hunters_and_Shooters_Association

More here:
http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/02/29/american_hunters_and_shooters_association_screech-2/

And an older one:
http://fieldandstream.blogs.com/gunnut/2006/09/meet_the_americ.html
 
Every new member who sees this thread is thenceforth armed against "American Hunters and Shooters Association's" predations.

A wolf in sheep's clothing, indeed.

The subject needs redundancy for this reason, and for this reason President Sigler brought it up again in The American Rifleman.

Part of their purpose is no doubt to set up a "Straw Man" (or a "straw organization") to cite things like, "See, even the American Hunters and Shooters Association is against..." EBRs, or semiauto hunting rifles or hunting rifles over .XXX caliber, or sidearms while hunting, or permitted firearms in Parks, or hollowpoint bullets,..." Etc.

Given the number of gun owners who had not even heard of the Heller case, it would seem that reiterating information on this organization from time to time is a good thing.

Thank you Rachen.
 
Aye. The ASHA magazine is filled with propaganda. Which is nothing like "America's First Freedom." Or the bold-faced, underlined letters the NRA sends out every week, about how a liberal politician in Wisconsin is going to eviscerate, deflower, drink the blood of, defenestrate, then take away a right that God himself gave to you, after summoning the assistance of demons from hell that are clearly depicted on the front of their magazine covers. Letters that are sent out about every two weeks, complete with shiny and colorful stickers to make their members feel important.

-Sans Authoritas
 
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Well, many of these anti-gunners' activities are decidedly "wolf-like," and while they are sheep in the sense that they are anti-gun, they are not in the sense that they are expert in anti-gun tactics... they are in fact looking for the "weak" among us gunnies.

Point well taken, Sans Authoritas. We all have a tendency to self-confirm our pre-established positions.

Something we should all look out for in ourselves. In all matters, besides just firearms.

ETA: Written and posted before your edit regarding shiny stickers etc. I was responding only to the sardonic first part of your original post, which went:

Aye. The ASHA magazine is filled with propaganda. Which is nothing like "America's First Freedom."
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I was pretty sure for a while that former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani actually resembled like a loathsome worm in a big apple, because one of the NRA's magazine covers maturely depicted him as such. Then, about three years later, the organization invited the depicted person to give a speech filled with platitudes about respecting rights, and gave the man a big round of applause for his obvious hypocrisy. That's why I love the NRA. Always upholding the highest standards of good taste and ideological consistency.

-Sans Authoritas
 
Something we should all look out for in ourselves. In all matters, besides just firearms.

ETA: Written and posted before your edit regarding shiny stickers etc. I was responding only to the first part of your original post, which went:

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Aye. The ASHA magazine is filled with propaganda. Which is nothing like "America's First Freedom."
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No worries. Are you intimating, however, that the colorful and shiny stickers are actually necessary to the process of mailing in a donation, as opposed to a simple checkmark in a box?

-Sans Authoritas
 
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