ETA: What was his voting record in the Senate? That counts too.

You would be correct in a fact based reality. Too bad they don't live in one.

And might help keep a civil war from happening when he gets reelected.

And to clear thinking members (and don't kid yourselves, readers, plenty of 'lefties' are NRA members and/or supporters of TRTKBR), this would be a winning strategy.

And to the others who would never vote for him anyway, their little heads might explode!

The smartest and most progressive friend I have is a member, lives in Santa Cruz, active in the OWS movement there, never owned and AFAOK has never fired a weapon.

If he is a so called progressive why does he give money and power to one of the least progressive organizations in the US?

They are, by far, the most effective organization out there for protecting our 2nd Amendment rights. RKBA is important to me.

group there is. To call yourself a democrat and to give them money is the hight of Stockholm Syndrome.

Sorry about your condition.

As far as I know, there isn't one and that being the case, I'm going to keep sending checks to the NRA. The real problem is the lack of respect that many Democrats have for gun rights. The NRA will support Democrats that have a good voting record on this issue, but unfortunately, there aren't nearly enough of them.

The loonbats are the ones who go to the conventions.

And in fact, Obama's pre-presidential, pre-Senate record on guns is truly bad.

a bunch of right wing nuts. The speakers this year were the worst idiots the GOP has to offer.

The parks gun law was a rider to a very good bill regarding credit card interest rate policies. One of those common practices in federal legislation - attach something extraneous to a bill likely to be passed on the merits of the bill itself.

And, imho, the amendment doesn't seem that onerous, and I'm generally anti lax gun control -

"Under the current regulation, firearms are generally prohibited, but citizens may transport unloaded and dismantled or cased firearms and carry firearms while participating in approved hunting programs and under certain other circumstances," Interior spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff said in a statement released minutes after President Obama signed the credit card holders' bill of rights, which includes an amendment allowing firearms at the nation's National Parks and wildlife refuges.

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The second article notes the spike in sales but attributes it to this -

Buyers in record numbers are flooding into gun stores, retailers say. Ammo, too, is flying off the shelves. The reasons for the spike, last seen in 2009, include fears that a second Obama administration might restrict gun ownership and the popularity of TV shows devoted to doomsday preparation and killing zombies.

"He's never been pro-gun," says Cris Parsons of President Obama. Parsons, 31, owns a Texas gun purveyor called the Houston Armory. So far, Parsons insists, Obama has been "pretty coy" about his antipathy toward guns--and he likely will remain so during the campaign. To do otherwise would "upset a lot of people."

But if Obama wins a second term, he'll have "nothing to lose," says Parsons.

Alan Korwin, author of nine books on gun laws, including "Gun Laws of America," says gun owners are worried that the president, as a lame duck, will clamp down as never before on gun ownership.

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And the third citation has nothing to do with Obama at all.



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"Buyers in record numbers are flooding into gun stores, retailers say. Ammo, too, is flying off the shelves. The reasons for the spike, last seen in 2009, include fears that a second Obama administration might restrict gun ownership and the popularity of TV shows devoted to doomsday preparation and killing zombies. "