Rather than a review or general airgun related article this time, let me hop up on my soapbox for my last blog posting of the year.\u00a0 My hope is I\u2019m \u201cpreaching to the choir\u201d here, but since we are entering an election year where our gun rights are under attack more than ever, I want to make it clear to readers \u2013 if you as an airgunner do not belong to a recognized organization that supports the 2nd<\/sup> Amendment, get off you\u2019re backside and join now.\u00a0 The NRA is the largest and oldest, but if you like another organization that has a legitimate goal of keeping guns available to law-abiding citizens of this country, then go for it.\u00a0 I say legitimate because gun-grabbers have used the old \u201cwolf-in-sheep\u2019s-clothing\u201d ploy in the past to masquerade as a pro-gun group. I believe their thinking was hoping to dilute membership and dues to pro-gun organizations and spread their propaganda to an unsuspecting public.\u00a0 Whatever their twisted thinking was if you go with an outfit outside of the known pro-gun groups, check them out carefully.\u00a0 One of these phony groups was the \u201cAmerican Hunters and Shooter\u2019s Association (AHSA) and it was headed by a member of the Brady campaign.\u00a0 Its Board of Directors was a Who\u2019s Who of the gun control cabal.\u00a0 They were exposed by the NRA and social media and have since closed their phony operation.\u00a0 I guess I begrudgingly have to give the gun-banners credit.\u00a0 They are a creative lot for certain.\u00a0 Since they\u2019ve had a tough time putting the Second Amendment out of business legislatively, they find other ways to chip away at it.<\/p>\n So, bottom line and I\u2019ll get off my soapbox:\u00a0 If you value the airgunning hobby and you\u2019d like to have unfettered access to lead ammo, powerful airguns and even realistic air soft replicas, get in the game.\u00a0 Support pro-gun organizations and candidates anytime you can.\u00a0 You may be thinking \u201cI only like airguns and nobody is after them; they even come with \u2018silencers\u2019 now and aren\u2019t on the gun-grabber radar\u201d.\u00a0 That is dangerous thinking.\u00a0 The gun-grabbers just haven\u2019t gotten to them yet.\u00a0 Keep standing on the sidelines and they will. \u00a0Some overly emotional argument will be promoted about \u201cthe irresponsible use of all things airgun”. \u00a0We the People all of a sudden cannot be trusted with them because serious airgunners will be lumped into the same bucket as irresponsible and unsupervised youngsters who shoot out car windows and any other negative angle they can come up with.<\/p>\n There is an old saying: there are 3 kinds of people \u2013 those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those that wonder what happened.\u00a0 Which kind will you be?<\/p>\n The above statements are my personal opinion and not necessarily those of AOA.\u00a0 However, for questions you can reach out to Airguns of Arizona at www.arigunsofarizona.com<\/a> or leave a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rather than a review or general airgun related article this time, let me hop up on my soapbox for my last blog posting of the year.\u00a0 My hope is I\u2019m \u201cpreaching to the choir\u201d here, but since we are entering an election year where our gun rights are under attack more than ever, I want…»<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3660,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions\/3660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}