My biggest concern about this is that they will lobby on behalf of "common sense gun control" and claim they represent "rank and file" gun owners-especially if they get a lot of members. Can you imagine? Anti gunners joining this group, funding it and lending legitimacy to it, so they can claim to speak on our behalf?
Same crap, different day.
Grabbers have been running campaigns like this for as long as I've been paying attention to the gun issue:
- Billionaire Andrew McKelvey ran such an organization called "Americans for Gun Safety" back in the late 1990s.
- Then a few years later there was "The American Hunters and Shooters Association" which was founded by some goofus retired NFL football player. They made a lot of noise about being for gun rights, but behind the scenes, AHSA's leadership was playing footsy under the table with the Brady Campaign.
- Scott Kelly has tried to do this multiple times as well, claiming he's pro gun while supporting every gun control law under the sun.
It's no surprise that they'd try to go back to the well of false-flag "gun rights" groups, as it gives them a couple of advantages:
1.) It allows them to garner some support from the clueless Fudd crowd who are ok with wood-stocked hunting rifles and bird guns, but who don't like pistols or modern sporting rifles.
2.) It allows the grabbers to get their talking points jammed into every tv story, interview, or written article by providing quotes to reporters who are more than happy to signal boost anti-rights talking points by creating an illusion of "balance" while allowing them to avoid quoting real gun owners or organizations like the NRA or GOA. This is the more important goal, as it allows the grabbers to attempt to create the illusion of a popular consensus in favor of gun control, even among gun owners.