Reply #11: The NSSF is the gun manufacturer's lobby; the NRA is the primary gun owner's lobby... [View All]

though if the AHSA ever gets straightened out, it might could someday be a less-rhetorical alternative to the NRA.

Personally, I think the NRA's campaign against Obama is idiotic. There are legitimate concerns about Obama's record on guns that I think he needs to address, and yes Biden as VP worries me somewhat, but the NRA's fixation on hunters and skeet shooters, and its over-the-top rhetoric, have blinded it to the real issues here.

80% of gun owners are nonhunters, a third are women, and half are Dems and indies. The NRA should stop scaremongering about "they's gonna takes yer huntin' rifle" and work to educate the candidates about what the real issues are--i.e., that gun owners are primarily concerned about the "assault weapon" fraud and ammunition restrictions---and spend less time on over-the-top rhetoric aimed at "hunters and sportsmen" that only hurts them. The Jim Zumbo incident (which completely blindsided the NRA) should have taught them that, if nothing else.