1. Amen!! I have been fighting the same thing here. Our local gun rights group is full of whiners that make excuses for doing nothing to help the cause. It is THE most frustrating part of this fight. Join GOA if you dont like the NRA.

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2. Miguel, dead on right, well said. At my gun range if this subject even gets brought up, it divides the group into two camps, one based on emotion and the other based in logic. The people who have a personal attachment to a firearm throw emotion at the problem, while people who treat the gun as ‘any other essential tool to get a job done’ throw logic, reason and possible solutions at the problem.

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3. While on principle I don’t agree with the bump stock ban but I also think losing them isn’t really a loss. In the Marines we were never allowed to fire our M16s on burst, it was an actual offense we could be charged with, and instead relied on open bolt heavier barreled guns for full auto. The amount of movement when firing a bump stock makes them completely inaccurate and I have doubts on control with so much stock movement. To me we didn’t lose really anything. I kind of wish we could invent some other non-full auto thingy so we can all tell the left yes we really love this please don’t take it so they focus on it.

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4. Well said, and right on the money!

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5. BLS, the gun-grabbers are already focusing on those other ‘thingies’

   DiFi’s latest bill is a ban not just on bump-stocks, but ‘hell-fire’ triggers and cranks – by definition – not name (they’re learning)

   What we lose from this regulation is that the definition in a law of a thing can be changed by a bureaucrap on a political whim.

   If this stands, you will see not just the ATF but any other bureau see that they do not have to hold to the wording of a law, in some manner, but can simply hash up some word salad that looks good enough and then go anywhere they want from there.

   The power the regulators have is bad enough now, but current cases before the court about ‘Chevron’ and ‘Auer’ deference may restrict this power. Not fighting this point now is simply giving up.

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   1. DiFi’s latest bill is a ban not just on bump-stocks, but ‘hell-fire’ triggers and cranks – by definition – not name (they’re learning)

      And they learned from us because our side could not keep its mouth shut and made that crap look like the most important shit in our life.

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6. I am a lifetime member, and was a regular contributor until a few years ago. Then I called to talk to someone about why anti-gun Republicans in my State had A ratings. No one was available to take my call, I left my information and was assured that I would be contacted. Called again a few days later, same response. Called every weekday for almost a month, same response. NEVER got a call back, no emails, smoke signals, nothing. I was always polite and professional when I called. No response.

   I haven’t cancelled my membership, because who knows, one day, right after pigs fly, there may come a time when leadership actually listens to members. But I am not sending another dime until that far off mythical date.

   I contribute cash to TFA and GOA, and call, write and email my pols, volunteering time for certain ones, like Mark Green, most recently.

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7. I can make the pragmatic sacrifice to prevent a total loss.

   But sooner or later the anti-gun side needs to start losing something.

   The sum of these pragmatic sacrifices is becoming the death of a thousand cuts where we always lose a little bit and never gain or regain anything.

   We’re experts at a holding action, but have no clue about how to go on the offensive.

   Worse, we can’t even punish the politicians who betray us because their opponents are even worse. I’m weary of the lose-lose choice at the ballot box.

   I am even more weary of the constant refrain to try things which have failed in Florida for decades to change the situation.

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