Let’s Pretend That I Am An Evil Jackbooted Thug With The NSA And I Have Hacking Skills
Boy Howdy, can I make the worst nightmare of NRA members come true.
How The NRA Built A Massive Secret Database Of Gun Owners
While the National Rifle Association publicly fights against a national gun registry, the organization has gone to incredible lengths to compile information on “tens of millions” of gun owners — without their consent.
So, the NRA, who spends every day fretting over the government getting a registry of guns, has a registry of … damn. That’s pretty weird.
That database has been built through years of acquiring gun permit registration lists from state and county offices, gathering names of new owners from the thousands of gun-safety classes taught by NRA-certified instructors and by buying lists of attendees of gun shows, subscribers to gun magazines, and more, BuzzFeed has learned.
You know how they say that anything is for sale? That list is surely for sale.
Hoisting with petards, are we?
Thanks to Carl for the heads up.
The difference is that the NRA will only provide that information to those who want to sell guns not the evil ATF agents who R Comin’ ter take R Gunz!
1You know, this plays into my belief that anything a Republican says he or she is against, you can bet they are already doing. Day is night and night is day in their world. Whatever they say, know that that the oppostie is their goal (e.g., Blue Sky Act = more pollution, Clean Water Act = more tainted water, etc.). Now, the NRA/GOP is against the fed government collecting gun info – well, well, well, that seems to be becausee they don’t want competition in building theirr own database. Such hypocrites!
2Let’s not forget that the bank’s keep a record of your gun purchases if you pay with a check or credit card, forever!
3The government is going to subpoena those records so they can confiscate members guns.
4But… but… but… that’s THEIR *very own* list, not some guv’mint list. So IOKIYTNRA. It’s OK if you’re the NRA.
5Of course they have a list. All big organizations have lists. Big deal. It’s what’s done with the lists. And hmm, I wonder. Any NRA members here? (Don’t spit; one of my thoroughly Democratic party member relatives is a member of the NRA.) Find out if you could be removed from the NRA list if you wanted to be. You CAN’T be removed from the NSA list.
6And when did the ATF buy the list with periodic updates?
7If only someone would take their guns. BTW the latest bad guy with a gun who entered the Georgia Elementary school wasn’t met by a good guy with a gun, it was a school secretary with a brain who talked the guy out of his mission. God bless school secretaries who are paid peanuts, but actually keep the schools running!
8Wonder if the NSA has the NRA list? Think they do anything by email? ROFLMAO!
9Of course, JJ, YOUR jackboots would have sequins!
10So the NRA builds its membership by acquiring any kind of gun-related list it can, and appealing to those people on the lists to help the NRA eliminate all gun-related lists. Hmmm….
11Yeah, its all that, and they drink!
12I’m getting a headache. Time for an ice cream bar break.
13See, that’s been my concern about the NSA thing all along…. Yea, the Govt got my stuff on a list with a bazillion other folks stuff, requiring mucho data mining to find my little piece(Although in my 21st Century mind I am the center of the universe so I’m sure I’m at the top of all lists.) Much more concerned about all that data in the Hands of Haliburton or Blackwater, or the NRA or anyone else who DOESN’T even pretend to have a FISA court for our protection. I’ll take my chances with the Govt, thank you, I know they have limited funds, them other companies, orgs, well….I got to go take a pill…Dang it
14Now that the sucker has been identified, the NRA may be in for massive cyber attack by anyone who wishes the US, the gun lobby, or slimy reasoning ill. It would serve the NRA right if their big ol’ database ended up online, saving the government the time, bother, and expense of creating one.
15Sigh. The NRA wasn’t always radical. They fought for gun rights like ACLU fights for civil rights. I’ve family members who are Lifetime Members. I always wished I’d bought in when it was cheap. But that was long ago before Charlton Heston was their President. They’ve unfortunately discovered there is good money in being so far out there that middle-of-the-road folks are scared of them.
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