In this video, we take a hard look behind the public image of the National Rifle Association—an organization that claims to be the guardian of our Second Amendment rights. But as the evidence shows, their words and their actions tell two very different stories. While politicians mock ordinary Americans for “clinging to guns and religion,” and the NRA poses as the bold defender of liberty, their own history reveals a long trail of compromises, government funding, and support for gun control measures stretching back a century. This isn’t about left or right—it’s about truth versus illusion. Because the power to defend our freedoms has never belonged to bureaucrats or lobbyists. It belongs to We the People.
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TRANSCRIPT
So now let’s look at another organization, one of these, you know, people, the
National Rifle Association that states that it’s there to protect your Second
Amendment rights. What, I mean, I think it’s known, but I think it’s good to
illustrate what is the public image of the National Rifle Association? In a recent
closed door speech to donors, politicians, and media, Bill Clinton spoke about
American gun owners. Quote, A lot of these people, all they’ve got is they’re
hunting, then they’re fishing, or they’ve been listening to this stuff for so long
that they believe it all, unquote. And we all remember Barack Obama’s 2008 comments
to a room of San Francisco elites. Quote, it’s not surprising then they get bitter.
They cling to guns or religion, unquote. The arrogance in their superiority requires
this reminder. They don’t rule us. They don’t give us rights. We grant them power.
They don’t make us safe. We pay to protect them. They don’t make us free. We’re
free already. And as long as we have the Second Amendment, we always will be.
We are America. And our politicians are only as powerful as we, the people,
allow them to be.
In an effort to energize the gun rights activists, he released this incendiary
fundraising letter. That the semi -auto ban gives jackbooted government thugs more
power to take away our constitutional rights, break in our doors, seize our guns,
destroy our property, and even injure or kill us. Aren’t you concerned when you say
Nazi bucket helmets, government thugs, kicking down doors,
killing maiming people?
your God -given rights. And that, oh my, look at, look at, he is, you know, calling
out the government for being the jackbooted thugs that they are. And he is standing
up to that liberal Tim Russert, man, he is going to show him what’s up. That’s the
public image. Again, words versus fruits. So we look at the real NRA,
according to their own records, their own words. They received government funding From
their inception in the 1800s, all the way up until the 1970s. In the 1920s,
they actually pushed for gun control measures in nine states requiring a permit to
carry a gun. The NRA, before the NRA gets involved, there’s no permit.
You don’t have to get government permission to carry a gun. NRA gets involved, and
they push a bill that says, you need government permission to carry a gun. and a
waiting period in a record of purchase going to the government. So because the NRA,
we now have records of who purchases guns. They lobbied to ban mail order sales of
guns in 1967. Prior to 1967 and the NRA’s pushing of a bill,
you could buy a gun just right over the mail. In the 1968, they lobbied for
tracking of guns and banning the shipment across state lines unless you were
licensed. You’ve got government permission to do so.
In their own publication, the American Rifleman in 1968, they bragged about their
involvement of pushing more government intrusion into your right of self -defense,
saying, the NRA supported the National Firearms Act of 1934, which taxes and requires
registration of such firearms as machine guns, sought off rifles, and shot off
shotguns. NRA’s support of federal gun legislation did not stop with the earlier Dodd
bills. It currently backs several Senate and House bills, which through amendment,
would put new teeth into the National and Federal Firearms Acts, bragging about their
taking away
zones and now the NRA who is supposed to be supporting your Second Amendment is
saying, we want you to have Second Amendment free zones where you’re not allowed to
be able to protect yourself. We think it’s reasonable to expect full enforcement of
federal firearms laws by the federal government. That’s why we support Project Exile,
providing five years federal prison for violations such as having a folding stock or
bayonet. The NRA wants you to spend five years in federal prison for simply having
a stock that folds or a knife at the end of your gun. This is the guys standing
up against Jack Boot Thugs. The Constitution authorizes zero restrictions on your
right of self -defense. But the NRA promoting themselves as defending the Second
Amendment, wants to destroy the Second Amendment and is working to destroy it. Now
they’re actually, you know, back after the Patriot Act, after the 9 -11 attack on
the Twin Towers, the demolition of the Twin Towers, they actually opposed gun owners
and expanding the government’s powers in the unconstitutional Patriot Act. You had
Rand Paul actually introduced legislation to stop this, and the NRA opposed Rand
Paul’s amendment, saying there have been no reports of the current Patriot Act being
abused, being abused. The whole thing’s an abuse. With respect to firearms records,
however, supporters suggest a far -fetched scenario in which every firearm sales record
in the country, tens or hundreds of millions of documents dating back to 1968 could
be sought. Of course, it’s being put into databases at this time. And so they
opposed actually preserving your right to privacy and your right to defend yourself.
They backed language that allows the BATF now to get access to every gun owner’s
purchase going back decades.
