It may be the new format fooling me, but you roused a two-month-old dead thread with a warning about this initiative to complain that it was the ILA crying wolf? I suppose you would rather no mention had been made until now, when it had had time to gain support, or those pushing it had found a way to sneak it through under cover of dark? I'll bet you think the warnings pushed out in Illinois whenever a 'shell bill' (to be filled later in the legislative process with actual content via amendment) is being driven by anti-gun blowhards is also a false alarm?This is a bill introduced by a minority member of the Michigan legislature that - based on prior experience - has no possibility of being enacted into law. It is, in my opinion, nothing more than an attempt by the ILA to generate panic amongst people who slept through their High School Civics class and thus don't realize they are being "shaken down" by the ILA to defend them against a law that has no chance of being enacted in the first place.
It does mean, as Mr. Brown points out, that they are funded separately in the sense that they don't get member dues and are dependent on contributions.That doesn't mean that they are actually separate.
We did? From the moment word got out, I spent every spare minute I had e-mailing, writing, and calling my representatives and the governor's office. So did many of the people I know.Sounds to me like a Michigan version of the New York SAFE Act.
Which was passed.
New York gun owners ignored warnings about that one.
Yes, that's true -- it was rushed through under a "message of necessity," and we only had a few days to respond before it went to vote. There was a period after it passed when it got tweaked somewhat, and I believe the pressure was more effective then. If we had had a few months to really get the ground game going before passage, we could have been more effective. The governor knew it, and that's why he pulled the fast one.I sit corrected. Not all New York gun owners ignored that one. I did have the impression the Governor pushed that one through before adequate warning could be given or action taken.