PA Bill Number: HB335

Title: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons.

Description: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons. ...

Last Action: Removed from table

Last Action Date: May 1, 2024

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Key gun rights questions likely to go unasked at NRA meeting :: 04/13/2015

As gun owners gather this weekend for the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Nashville, two events are scheduled to take place that will have lasting effects on politics affecting the right to keep and bear arms: This year’s meeting of members, and appearances by politicians of national stature, including one announced and several likely presidential contenders. Likely to go unchallenged and unchanged is NRA’s deliberate indifference to the one issue that has the potential to undo and reverse all legislative and judicial gains for gun rights won to date: Amnesty for illegal aliens followed up with a “pathway to citizenship.”

All credible polls reveal a demographic that overwhelmingly supports Democrats, and further, overwhelmingly supports stricter government controls on guns. Couple that with Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson declaring the millions of undocumented immigrants in this country have “earned the right to be citizens.” And then look at what some of the leading Republicans have said about the issue.

No candidate for NRA director has campaigned for office with the amnesty/pathway danger being even an acknowledged issue, let alone the most critical one threatening legal recognition of the right to keep and bear arms. Indeed, quite the opposite has occurred.

Ditto for holding politicians accountable for policies they endorse, despite an admission from a Democrat congressman that immigration “will decide who is in charge of this country for the next 20 or 30 years.”

There’s a real simple way for those in the gun rights community who wish this issue to go away to get those of us who keep bringing it up to stop: Provide credible evidence -- not anecdotes and platitudes, but something that can be independently validated -- that refutes and puts to rest the concerns. If injecting millions of anti-gun voters dependent on Democrat “entitlements” into the electorate will not result in an unbeatable “progressive” super-majority, having a disastrous effect on politicians elected, laws passed, judges confirmed, and decisions upheld, all they need do is share with us how they know that.

There's a chance to do something significant to alter the most likely outcome now, this weekend in Nashville. Chances are, though, no one of import in the gun community will put it to the members, or even allow it to be brought up. The reason for that is something else that ought to be shared.