Inside the N.R.A.: An Expose

In this book Jack Anderson points out what he sees to be the fanatical side of the NRA. He appears to have some personal issues with members of the NRA leadership and relates some racial and class discrimination antecdotes to make his point. He does make a good case in reference to a second amendment rights issue where a man claimed to have the right to own any weapon that the Army had in its arsenal. He makes other solid arguments as well. As a moderate NRA member for several years I agreed with some and disagreed with other opinions. I own the HC edition and found it to be an good quick read. A well written book to help form your own opinion.

Jack Anderson claims to have done an investigative report on the NRA.What we really have here is a highly biased editorialization of the NRA,with every effort to make it look ridiculous,and just does a lot of derogatory name calling in an effort to convince the reader that there are logical arguments to prove his biases.He portrays the anti-gun people as racist,country bumpkins and if they were as intelligent and sophisticated as the elitist leftist establishment in the cities they wouldn't fight gun control.If Anderson would only get real he'd see that the criminial activity that takes place with guns is mainly in his astute cities ;and fighting the law-abiding,gun collector,target shooting and duck hunting gun owner of mid- America,from whence most of the NRA hails;will never solve the problem.He even admits that about half the households in America have one or more guns,however he rants on about the 3 million or so members of the NRA and ignores all the rest.He also rails about the the Second Amendment rights. This is the real red herring issue;and I'll tell you why.In Canada there is no such statement of rights in our constitution,in fact,we don't even have one..The leftists and anti-gun lobby have pushed through gun control and registration and have created a 2 Billion dollar boondoggle,all the while promising it would not cost more than 2 Million,which would be covered by registration fees.That would be bad enough in itself, but there hasn't been any sign of any reduction in crime involving guns.Why would one expect there to be?Guns are still being used in crimes and to the surprise of nobody,except a few stary-eyed liberals,the criminal element continue to get guns as they did before.So,all this gun control is nothing but a red herring,the liberals have created to avoid tackling the real problem of crime, whether in the US or here in Canada. Now,instead of fighting the real enemy they make the NRA the enemy. One might find some benefit from all this gun registration,in that maybe the duck will feel better having been shot by a hunter with a registered firearm;but,somehow I doubt it.I also doubt that the next killing in some lonely alley or robbery will be by a criminal with a registered handgun. Why did I rate this book 5 stars?For the simple reason that it completely exposes the gun control elitests as hell bent on an agenda totally devoid of any likelihood of solving the crime problem with guns. Since we do not have an NRA here in Canada , we might as well blame the our gun control boondoggle on the NRA too.That would only be fair,since our liberals probably got ther misguided ideas from your liberals. Update! Update! Update! December,2005 If you think all this is unbelievable;wait till you hear this! Since the $2B boondoggle failed to acomplish anything as evidenced by the out of control gun related murders here in Toronto,now 'they'have decided to conficate all the handguns,that the law-abiding citizens dutifully regis

I believe in 95% of the information and numerous sources that Mr. Anderson uses to make his case, which is this - the NRA is consolidating and perhaps increasing its political power in Washington D.C., but it is RAPIDLY losing the confidence of the general public.Mr. Anderson has an objective view toward sensible gun legislation. He does not advocate registration, or confiscation, or any other ultra-radical anti-gun stance. However, he does expose the NRA for what they appear to be - ultra-conservative, ultra-right radicals, who are unwilling to compromise on, or even suggest sensible gun legislation and/or safety measures that would benefit the average citizen, without comprimising their rights, constitutional or otherwise.BTW, I am a former member of the NRA and consider myself a conservative.Anyone thinking about this ongoing gun debate will benefit from this book.My review is from the audio version of this book.