This is a copy of a letter I just mailed to Mr. LaPierre of the NRA. I am interested in your reaction, good or bad, to my letter.
Dear Wayne LaPierre,
I do not agree with everything the NRA does but I still feel I am a loyal member. I believe in the basic American right to keep and bear arms. I recently upgraded to an endowment membership to support the efforts of the NRA. We will have many challenges in the next four years.
I recently received the March 2009 issue of American Rifleman and read the article on the DS Arms B&T TP9 pistol. I just cannot keep quiet. We buy firearms for target practice, competition, hunting, personal defense and sometimes just for the fun of it. In my opinion the only category this pistol possible fits is the fun category. By publishing an article in a national magazine you are inferring that you support the sale of such weapon. Do you really want to put the unofficial NRA stamp of approval on this pistol? To me this is just free cannon fodder for the anti-gun establishment. You know better than I how hard the legal battles are to preserve our right to bear arms. I just do not understand why you published a review on this pistol. Surely your editors are acutely aware of the damage this article can do to our side.
This raises the larger question, where do you draw the line? Do we support the right to own all firearm or only certain ones? Somewhere in this question common sense should prevail. I wish I were a more eloquent writer. I do not have all the answers but it is my hope that this letter will get the leaders of the NRA and gun owners thinking and talking about what sensible and safe gun ownership in America should be. You have my permission to publish and distribute this letter as you see fit.
Respectively yours,
Dear Wayne LaPierre,
I do not agree with everything the NRA does but I still feel I am a loyal member. I believe in the basic American right to keep and bear arms. I recently upgraded to an endowment membership to support the efforts of the NRA. We will have many challenges in the next four years.
I recently received the March 2009 issue of American Rifleman and read the article on the DS Arms B&T TP9 pistol. I just cannot keep quiet. We buy firearms for target practice, competition, hunting, personal defense and sometimes just for the fun of it. In my opinion the only category this pistol possible fits is the fun category. By publishing an article in a national magazine you are inferring that you support the sale of such weapon. Do you really want to put the unofficial NRA stamp of approval on this pistol? To me this is just free cannon fodder for the anti-gun establishment. You know better than I how hard the legal battles are to preserve our right to bear arms. I just do not understand why you published a review on this pistol. Surely your editors are acutely aware of the damage this article can do to our side.
This raises the larger question, where do you draw the line? Do we support the right to own all firearm or only certain ones? Somewhere in this question common sense should prevail. I wish I were a more eloquent writer. I do not have all the answers but it is my hope that this letter will get the leaders of the NRA and gun owners thinking and talking about what sensible and safe gun ownership in America should be. You have my permission to publish and distribute this letter as you see fit.
Respectively yours,
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