In one sense of "gun safety" the NRA is the biggest proponent of it; they give a ton of free gun safety classes.

be available in a combat setting.

Last I checked, the NRA supports opening the NICS background check system for private-party sales (this is the "gun show loophole", though it has nothing to do with loopholes). If we could stop rhetorically beating each other up over this we would see that there's not really that much daylight between the NRA and Brady on this.

Military weapons (assault rifles, machine guns, etc.) have been for all practical purposes illegal since 1934, and have killed I think 2 people in the US since the 1950s.

How about requiring any private party sale to check the NICS? How about full registration for all firearms?

If at least *allowing* it is what we can get, that's a step in the right direction, no?

Any type of weapon that shoots more than a certain number of bullets without having to reload most people would agree should only be used in the military.

Let's say 10 times.

The problem is that the way most guns are built, the magazine that holds the rounds is
a separate thing from the gun and is very easy to make: it's just a box with a spring in it. It's also possible to change them pretty quickly, so 3 ten-round magazines don't take much longer at all to fire than 1 thirty-round magazine.

But, yes, it would be possible to limit all new magazines to 10 rounds, and it would be somewhat possible to go around and get the ones that people currently have (unlike the bullets themselves, the magazines don't get used up when you shoot).

It would be making precursors (to borrow a drug war term) to mass shootings more difficult to acquire. That might be effective on the margins, though our experience with the war on drugs makes me pessimistic about that. But maybe it's what we can do.

By your logic, the entire MMM should be held accountable for the actions of that one woman.

I'm not a member of the NRA, and I do not approve of Nugent's tirade, but you've gotta be careful with the whole "guilt by association" meme.

You may have had a point if the NRA had fired Ted Nugent after this outburst, but he remains on their Board of Directors to this very day. Is that Million Mom March activist associated with any gun control organizations today or did they do the right thing and disassociate themselves with her?

Don't try to pretend these two situations are the same, it is very different to have a current board member than a past activist.

They make no revenue from gun sales

Their books are open...take a look

The difference is crucial though it seems you do not know the difference and why it matters

The PACs may be seperate from the rest of the NRA by law, but for all practical purposes they represent the same murderous organization.