I’m writing this post because many gun owners myself included have spent alot of time in the past month bitching about gun control. Most however haven’t done one productive thing to stop it. If everyone did these simple steps, gun owners can form a unified front and defeat the gun-grabber element.
Write you elected representatives and encourage other to do the same. With this simple link shared by another M4carbine.net member it takes less than 2 minutes to do. http://www.ruger.com/micros/advocacy/
Furthermore it should be a goal of yours to influence as many people possible to do this simple step.
Contribute to the NRA or at least renew your membership early. Although some will disagree with the NRA’s stand on some issues, they are the only dog in the fight that has the ability to launch a sustained national campaign to pressure lawmakers to protect our second amendment rights.
Learn about your 2A rights and be able to calmly and rationally argue them to undecided non-gun people. Find common ground and educate people how the 2A protects other rights that they may find more important such as 1A rights.
Encourage others to follow steps 1-3
Extra Credit
Stop buying $50 PMAGS and other overpriced items and instead use some of those funds to contribute to the NRA.
Love these threads. Most people have done these things, and wasted their time. I did them myself and the whole time I knew I was wasting my time. If you are in the right state it MAY have some bearing, If you are in say CALI, or NY or NJ. you are fucked. I’m able to just move to PA full time. For now it is a solution, not for long though it will come here soon too. I see forced confrontation leading to nationwide registration.If this is found to be legal in NY. you all have at maximum 10 years left. WE fight back now together or we fall state by state over the next decade or so. Write all the letters you want nobody is reading them. We all see the same computer generated responses. So fuck it, by all means keep writing meaningless letters to Santa asking him for your rights back. Cuomo can kiss my ass along with anyone else who thinks they are in the position to tell me what I can have for my own protection.
I wrote an email to the Police chief of Petersburg, VA as he was invited to the Biden panel and he is anti 2A. He responded to me from his iPhone and said thanks for your thoughts.
I sent through NRA emails to all my representatives. I pretty much heard nothing from that except a thank you form the NRA.
I’m beginning to think that written letters, phone calls and social media such as YouTube are going to be the most effective. I’m getting the feeling emails are simply being stored and not read.
I have also sent links to important videos to a local Conservative 2A supporting radio station and thus far they never even acknowledged the emails. It was the holiday season though so who knows.
At any rate… whatever you decide to do, you might want to verify that your voice is actually being heard by some means.
Nobody’s mind will ever be changed with a letter or e-mail. There are only two weapons available in this fight. The ballot box and cash. We lost the ballot box last November. The only thing left is cash.
This is a different post than the last thread that I posted because this one is focused on action. I decided today to take a more active role in doing my part to defeat people going after my second amendment rights. Besides the usual donating to the NRA and writing letters to representatives, this is what I accomplished in 5 minutes.
I had closed two separate sales on Armslist for one for magazines and one for ammunition. Instead of making a huge profit, I sold them at a much lower price provided that the buyers joined the NRA. Basically I forgo my profit on these two sales and got two people to join the NRA instead.
Now up to influencing and encouraging four people to become New NRA members in which three I have never met. Also, 10+ of my friends are using the Ruger link to contact their representatives.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve donated to the NRA-ILA, joined the Second Amendment Foundation as well as Gun Owners of America. Got a few more people to join the NRA too.
I’m seriously considering going to my State’s Capitol on the 19th–what’s the consensus on the purposed march on State Capitols this month?
I find the level of defeatism amoung gun owners deeply distrubing. Although all over the internet you can find thousands of listings for Pmags for $50+ or $300 BCGs+ yet most people are not contributing anything to organizations like the NRA or Gun Owners of America. The membership fees for these organizations are $35 and $20 respectively. Although the NRA had a record month for new members, only 100,000 people joined the 4 million member organization. That means on average it took 40 NRA members to influence 1 new member joining. Actually the number is probably 100+ to 1 because many new people may have joined despite any help.
I think this is absolutely pathetic that people are focusing in on a losing hording mentality instead of a winning strategy of fighting for our 2A rights.
Alienating all of my FB friends by having a constant pro-gun newsfeed.
Became an NRA lifemember, made a separate donation.
Wrote anyone who “represents me” from mayor to pres. numerous times.
Bought more gun stuff.
Make sure you stress that the Republicans will lose the House (and no hope of getting the Senate) if any of this crapola passes. But if nothing passes, there will be no political downside. 2014 is a long way away for the libs to be pushing this and the general populace is not too keen on gun control as it is according to general polling.