Why Gunmakers Fear the NRA

**BadAtScreennames** · March 14th, 2013, 03:44 PM

Interesting article today about the NRA-gun manufacturer relationship:

...The companies that make and market firearms might prefer a softer tone, but they rarely complain publicly about NRA fear mongering because it’s been so good for business. Corporate donations to the NRA, which together with its affiliates has annual revenue of $250 million, have risen during the past decade, a period when the organization has taken increasingly absolutist positions. Still, it’s not the industry that muscles the NRA.

“NRA leadership worries about two things above all else: perpetuating controversy to stimulate fundraising from individual members and protecting its right flank from the real crazies,” says Richard Feldman, author of a feisty 2007 memoir, Ricochet: Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist. Feldman has worked in various capacities for both the NRA and the industry. “The idea that the NRA follows orders from the gun companies is a joke,” he says. “If anything, it’s the other way around.”

http://www.businessweek.com/articles...s-fear-the-nra

Same author also critiqued a gun control advocate's book today:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles...-book#r=auth-s

**GunLawyer001** · March 14th, 2013, 04:29 PM

Richard Feldman is not trustworthy.

Remember that bogus "gun rights" group that never saw an infringement on your gun rights that wasn't "reasonable"? The "American Hunters and Shooters Association"?

http://www.nssf.org/share/PDF/AHSA.pdf

**tsafa** · March 18th, 2013, 01:23 PM

They might have been some chance of fooling a few people with this last year before the election... but right now there are active bills in Congress to reduce our gun rights.

This is not Fear Mongering... This is a Real Assault on our Liberty !!!

**bigandy1966** · March 18th, 2013, 03:51 PM

Sooo You read that Bloomberg rag and quote it as truth? I trust them with actually reporting without bias as I trust ol mayor democrat/republican/independent flipflop Bloomiesinabunch himself.

**Berks_Iraq_Vet** · March 18th, 2013, 04:38 PM

People like Bloomberg and Obama are the reason the first Revolution was fought.

**steelerfan** · March 18th, 2013, 04:50 PM

Assaults on the 2nd amendment are sure the real thing, more so today than I have ever seen, our rights are under a very real attack. I would never trust the likes of Richard Feldman.
As a side note, Glenn Beck has listed moved Bloomberg up to the most dangerous man in the US & he very well may be