Word: nra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...caving into the demands of a big lobby with big bucks, passing a National Rifle Association-sponsored bill to drastically weaken gun control. The vote in the House is as much a comment on the way Congress does business as it is a comment on the power of the NRA...
...House's 292-130 vote in favor of the NRA complements the Senate's overwhelming vote in favor of lax gun laws last year. Neither the Senate nor the House would allow complete hearings, with the majority of both bodies accepting at face value the NRA's word that gun control had been debated enough already. Ironically, in defending its interpretation of the Second Amendment, the NRA is willing to subordinate legislative process. And, as the vote has shown, that's okay with Congress...
...Congress also showed last week that it cared more about the NRA's dollars than it did about the lives of policemen, who swarmed Capitol Hill to defeat a bill which their organizations had labeled "cop-killing...
...NRA claims that its bill would make gun laws more enforceable. But if they really cared to see that gun laws are enforced, they would not consider surprise inspections of gun dealers as a violation of man's natural rights and would support a mandatory 15-day federal waiting period on all purchases of handguns. Such a provision would not prevent any "honest citizen" from defending himself and would not violate the rights of gun dealers. It would merely give an angry gun purchaser time to cool down and the government a chance to check the background of potential...
House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino has introduced a bill mandating a waiting period. The NRA opposes it, claiming that the public would be better served by McClure-Volkmer. As the NRA applies pressure to representatives, let us hope that congressmen have the courage and vision to accept the NRA for what it is--a narrow special interest which seeks to benefit gun dealers and users with little regard for the public welfare...