Michigander
Regular Member
Q, You stated you helped write SB59 and I'm not calling you a liar, but it ******* WREAKS of being the NRAs idea. What we are talking here about here is, over time, MILLIONS of dollars going directly to the NRA from royalty fees from classes alone. Just like usual for the NRA, but this time with a freshly doubled market! It's really quite a devious plan. When you factor in the full cost, you are talking about taxing the people of Michigan tens of millions of dollars, and making them take an additional class, all for a constitutionally protected right! Please tell me you and a few law makers didn't come up with this yourselves!
It's fairly simple math. There are, if I remember right, hundreds of thousands of CPL holders already in Michigan. Even if we pretend that the NRA wouldn't get a big payout from this, and additionally make an unrealistically conservative estimate, say 100,000 people paying 100 dollars each over time, never mind the range and ammo fees, does that represent anyone striving for liberty? What in the hell gives us, the under dog freedom fighters, the right to tell the people of Michigan that they should have to spend multi millions for a constitutionally protected right? If you further consider that the NRA is a dedicated enemy of ours, having consistently fought very hard to stop the spread of open carry, and to instead promote licensed through them CC, this is perhaps the greatest mistake MOC has ever made.
If the NRA doesnt have it's dirty little mits in the mix here to push this through, that would shock the hell out of me because it stinks to high heaven of them attempting a power and money grab. If it passes, it will turn into just that regardless of who wrote it and why. No matter how much if any of it was their idea, I consider it an exceptional disgrace for MOC. I helped to found MOC to PREVENT this type of thing!
For Gods sake, we need to try to pull the plug on this trash!
It's fairly simple math. There are, if I remember right, hundreds of thousands of CPL holders already in Michigan. Even if we pretend that the NRA wouldn't get a big payout from this, and additionally make an unrealistically conservative estimate, say 100,000 people paying 100 dollars each over time, never mind the range and ammo fees, does that represent anyone striving for liberty? What in the hell gives us, the under dog freedom fighters, the right to tell the people of Michigan that they should have to spend multi millions for a constitutionally protected right? If you further consider that the NRA is a dedicated enemy of ours, having consistently fought very hard to stop the spread of open carry, and to instead promote licensed through them CC, this is perhaps the greatest mistake MOC has ever made.
If the NRA doesnt have it's dirty little mits in the mix here to push this through, that would shock the hell out of me because it stinks to high heaven of them attempting a power and money grab. If it passes, it will turn into just that regardless of who wrote it and why. No matter how much if any of it was their idea, I consider it an exceptional disgrace for MOC. I helped to found MOC to PREVENT this type of thing!
For Gods sake, we need to try to pull the plug on this trash!
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