NRA Board Members Told Not to Testify Against Kagan

[JohnKSa]

Olofson wasn't the individual who was caught firing the rifle in "full auto" mode aka malfunction.

I'm trying to decide why you think that's relevant.

1. No one here said he did.
2. He wasn't prosecuted for firing the gun in full auto. He was prosecuted for illegally modifying the gun and illegally transferring it to someone else.

Sounds like you are kind of sketchy on his case details. We could go in depth into his railroading...

No, it sounds like you're the one who is sketchy on the details of the situation. I followed Olofson's thread on arfcom. He never said he was innocent. His whole strategy was that he was going to tell the judge that the feds had no jurisdiction and get his case dismissed.

In other words, he didn't dispute what he had done, he just claimed that the laws against it didn't apply to him. Not surprising. His track record made it plain this wasn't the first time that he had made the decision to break a law because he didn't think it applied to him. He even discussed some of his previous court "experiences" on the thread over at arfcom.

With their stellar track record I'm surprised they didn't jump all over it.

Initially you started by complaining because the NRA didn't step in. Now you're saying that you're surprised that they didn't because they're so incompetent it would make sense for them to take on such an ill-advised challenge. Basically agreeing with me that it would have been ridiculous for them to try to help Olofson.

The bottom line is obvious. You're going to be unhappy with the NRA no matter what they do or don't do. You're unhappy that they didn't help Olofson even though you obviously agree it would have been a really bad waste of funds/resources if they had.

 

[mljdeckard]

I'm absolutely with TR and HSO. I don't want the NRA spending my money on a futile fight with the elections coming up this fall.

If you guys know so much about how to work this system, YOU go to Washington and try to do it yourself. I am not so skilled. I am perfectly willing to pay the NRA to do it for me, and I am glad they do it so well and cost effectively. I not only maintain my membership, when I buy something from Midway or Brownell's, I donate a bit there too.

 

[Frank Ettin]

...1986 ring a bell? During the "conservative" Reagan administration no less. Brady bill anyone?...

Are you suggesting that the NRA is responsible for the passage of the Brady Bill? Are you suggesting that if it were not for the NRA somehow the Brady Bill would have failed passage? Are you suggesting that some other organization could have successfully killed the Brady Bill?

And your dates are wrong. While the Brady Bill was introduced during the Reagan administration, massive opposition, including considerable lobbying by the NRA, managed to stall it. It wasn't actually enacted until the Clinton administration, and the bill was signed by Clinton in 1993, almost 5 years after Reagan left office. And NRA efforts at least helped include a provision in the Bill calling for the five day waiting period to be replaced by the current instant check system.

...Olofson wasn't the individual who was caught firing the rifle in "full auto" ... We could go in depth into his railroading...

He did, however, have his day in court and full opportunity to try to make his case/defeat the government's case, both at trial and on appeal. He lost.

 

[hso]

This has wandered far from the original post, now irrelevant since the NRA has started an effort to stop the appointment.

Read the New York Times article on all the political "sausage making" the NRA is doing "outside" of it's declared 2A scope. The New York Times makes a better argument for the NRA while being opposed to them than most anyone.