Why Did the NRA Build a Massive Database of Gun Owners?… At the Same Time Opposing National Gun Registry?

August 23rd, 2013

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

The National Rifle Association has frightened Americans about the
prospect of a federal registry of firearm owners. The NRA itself has
secretly created a database with information from tens of millions of
Americans who do not hold a membership.

The NRA has spent years secretly collecting information about gun
owners from state and local offices and has built the country’s
largest privately held database of current, former and
prospective gun owners, according to a BuzzFeed report.

News of the NRA’s database is particularly surprising, since the
pro-gun agency heavily protested the idea of a federal gun
registry after the Newtown massacre led to debates on increased
background checks.

Even though 91 percent of Americans supported
universal background checks, lawmakers were unable to push such
an initiative through Congress.

At the time, the NRA’s Wayne
LaPierre instilled a widespread fear that universal background
checks would lead to a national registry of gun owners, which
critics said could lead to taxes on guns or confiscation.

“That’s what [the feds] are after, the names of good, decent
people all over this country, who happen to own firearms to go
into a federal database or universal registration, every lawful
gun owner in America,” LaPierre said in a speech at the
Conservative Political Action Conference. “That’s their answer
to criminal violence… are they insane?”

That’s exactly what the NRA has been doing for years. The
organization’s database includes personal information from people
who have attended gun-safety classes taught by NRA-certified
instructors or gun shows.

The NRA also collected gun permit
information from state and county offices, as well as the names
of gun magazine subscribers.

Three million Americans are members of the NRA, but the database
has information from tens of millions of people, NRA lobbyist
Richard Feldman told BuzzFeed.

NRA officials refused to share an
exact number or go into the detail about their data-collection
methods, but documents obtained by BuzzFeed indicate that the NRA
may have bribed state officials into turning over their lists.

In 2009, a firm called Preferred Communications asked the
Virginia State Police to purchase the names of concealed carry
permit holders “on behalf of the National Rifle
Association.”

“Can you please let me know if you offer 2008 and/or 2009
names?” the group’s representative wrote in a message.”Can you please let me know the address to send the check to
and also whom to make it payable to?”

Officials in Arkansas, Oregon and Iowa also reported requests for
such lists.

The NRA’s database gives the organization the ability to contact
tens of millions of gun-owners to lobby their causes.

The data “gives the NRA more power,” Jon Bond, co-founder
of the ad firm Kirschenbaum Partners, told BuzzFeed, noting that
the NRA has an advantage over anti-gun groups.

“It’s valuable
politically because what it does is, it extends the reach of its
political leverage beyond NRA members. They have gun owners, not
just NRA members. There’s multiple purposes for it.”

With a national gun database containing names and addresses, the
NRA has the power to target certain markets and influence
Americans to support them.

Even if the NRA only uses its
database for marketing or advertising purposes, their secret
creation of a registry they long stood up against might prove
difficult to defend.

August 22, 2013 – posted at RINF

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The NRA is no friend of the 2nd Amendment. They signed on to the 1934 gun control laws, the 1968 GC act and the 1994 AW ban.

Gun Owners of America (GOA) are a no compromise outfit that deserves your membership and money!