I’m so angry right now I can hardly type out this email . . .
Why?
Because GOA, NRA, FPC, and 2AF cut an outrageous deal with Senator John Thune SEVEN days ago, refusing to fight the ruling of the Democrat parliamentarian, by collectively signing a letter saying they were effectively giving up the fight to get rid of the NFA.
They got gun owners NOTHING out of the Big Beautiful Bill!
As you can see in the letter below (pay close attention specifically paragraphs two and three), dated June 27, SEVEN DAYS AGO, they agreed to a deal that would take the NFA tax from $200 to $0, but gave up on the fight to deregulate suppressors, SBSs, and SBRs from the NFA.
OUTRAGEOUS!
This is what we call cutting deals with the Swamp, and it’s what the establishment gun lobby (GOA, NRA, FPC, 2AF) are experts at.
What’s even worse, each one of these groups spent the last seven days emailing and texting their members giving them hope that they could make all of their wildest 2A dreams come true if they just sent in a little bit more money.
They were gaslighting gun owners, aka, knowingly giving them false hope. Despicable, but all too familiar behavior so common with the establishment gun lobby.
Collectively the establishment gun lobby has won ZERO victories in Congress in over 50 years. Imagine that.
We REFUSED to sign the letter they all signed knowing that it was the equivalent of a white flag of surrender, giving John Thune and Mike Johnson the green light to screwing gun owners.
I recorded a video entitled, “GOA, FPC, SAF, NRA Gas Lit Gun Owners on the NFA Tax by Cutting A Deal with Thune”, detailing their betrayal.
Be sure to WATCH HERE if you’d like to learn exactly what happened behind the scenes.
AFA spent big and mobilized gun owners in the House to support deregulating suppressors, SBSs, and SBRs, as well as lowering the tax to $0, effectively killing off the NFA … but these establishment gun groups pulled the rug a week ago out from under this fight in the Senate and screwed gun owners.
AFA has only been around for about five years, but we’ve made progress on Capitol Hill, being the first 2A group in history to author and introduced legislation to ABOLISH THE ATF (H.R. 221) and REPEAL THE NFA (H.R. 335).
Just so you know, GOA, NRA, FPC and 2AF have not once lifted a finger on Capitol Hill to lobby or support these bills. NEVER.
They know if AFA is successful in getting these done, they’ll be out of a job.
So instead of supporting them, they denigrate the bills to Members of Congress and staff, usually behind the scenes, undermining the effort.
Today’s passage of the BBB is certainly a landmark for our country and the Republican Party, no matter what you think about the bill, but once again, the establishment gun lobby failed to deliver a win for gun owners.
50 years of failed tactics. Failed strategy. Failed deal cutting with politicians who hate your guts.
If you and I are ever going to change what happens in Congress as it pertains to our 2A rights, the tactics and strategies must change.
Quite simply, the politicians are not scared of the establishment gun lobby. Why would they be? After all, they get endorsed by them every single election cycle.
AFA doesn’t do that.
We have a number of allies, yes, but those allies are used to introduce bills with the end goal being complete elimination of federal gun control, not our job protection.
If you’re interested in different tactics and strategies than what the establishment gun lobby has given you for decades, we invite you to consider joining up or renewing with the American Firearms Association today.
Is there momentum on our side nationally for the Second Amendment? We are optimistic that is the case.
But we won’t win in Congress unless the ways of the old establishment gun lobby are thrown off and thrown away.
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For America,
Chris Dorr, President
American Firearms Association
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