Liberty wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2019 6:29 am
Trump was supposed to be different.
There are restrictions put in place by regulatory orders, not by Congress, that he could have been as easily undone as they were enacted. Mostly free up the people lands to allow us to carry on Federal lands. These restrictions were not put in place by legislative means, and don't require legislative means to undo. Instead, the only executive order involving gun rights that he has invoked was the bump stock restriction. Trump has always been at heart a New York Democrat. He just wears Republican garments when out in public.
I had hoped that he could use his business sense to contact the Secretary of the Army and require that the Federal Court decision already rendered about concealed carry on Corps of Engineers property would apply to the entire US and not be limited to the jurisdiction of the court with that ruling. Businesses routinely monitor court cases and I have seen the one that I worked for implement policies based on some of those lawsuits, not wanting to lose a similar case against them. I had hoped that the NRA could help make that argument better than I can.There seems to be a lot more anti-NRA rhetoric and I haven't felt that the NRA is responding to it well. I continue to send them money (PVF, ILA) in hopes that they will mount some more visible measures. I do understand that politics can be a lot of back room deals and that making some of that public would be counterproductive. But the last thing that I want to see it the NRA tearing itself apart over internal strife. I agree with the point made earlier in the thread that the NRA represents a broad group of gun owners and pleasing all of them all of the time is not possible. We cannot let the organization undermine its ability to galvanize voters or Swalwell will win.