GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[Jimbone]

IDK. If I were a national lobbyist or strategist for the NRA, I would recommend focusing all effort at the fed level right now. What gets passed at the federal level will essentially be the minimum for state-specific laws.

I would expend less political resources and monies on New York and California which already have laws that exceed the current federal minimums and heavy anti-gun coalitions in place as is stands.

Instead, I'd be working the reps from pro-gun states like Texas, Az, Florida, etc.. to help block the most objectionable of the proposed federal bans from passing Congress.

After finishing the Fed war, state by state focus would make more sense and would need to be jumped on quickly (some of the state-specific lobbying would be going on in parallel to the fed lobbying; but mostly as feed-in to the war at the fed level). The NRA may have an entirely different game plan, but that's what I would do anyway. New York state laws wouldn't be a high priority in the short term, at all.

The NY ban is ridiculous IMO, and I think you are likely right about the strategy they will take. Why waste resources in states that are too far gone indeed! They'll leave that to local upstate gun groups to challenge - maybe they'll provide some tactical support.

And again you are likely right that they should just focus on federal laws. What happened in NY is simply to pave the way for King Cuomo to run with something big on his record in 2016, and was red meat for the NYS politicos.

I'm all for more thorough and cross-dataed background checks (as long as it didn't turn into a gun registry), and even would be okay with a 10 round limits on a magazine. As I've said in the past, most higher round magazines are shit and jam constantly anyway.

But beyond that, banning weapons on cosmetic appearance - and that account for only 2% of the problem - is stupid.