I’M AMERICAN, A SHOOTING ENTHUSIAST
👹 And I support the Second Amendment rights with the provision that those rights have rules and are subject to revision if conditions warrant change as provided by the Constitution and “ God Given Right to Own a Weapon of War “ invalid as we checked and God does not own a gun shop, doesn’t need a gun, he has plagues, floods, illnesses, and other weapons when needed.
👹 The NRA — chose a path of behavior not warranted by need and flavored with lies, falsehoods and mis-truths flourishing as a scam and dealing in such a way that people are dying for no reason simply because of ignorance, fear motivation , lies, and motivated by greed while creating a supersaturation of war weaponry to a public where we have more guns than people and the mass percentage unchecked and untrained.
👹 I was a Republican and a NRA member. But I left the NRA when I learned the truth about its corrupt leadership and where the money was going and being used for — And I intend to bring whatever I have learned naming names and scams they are involved in — and I intend to expose them — It began 20 years ago when the children started dying —
👹 In a materialistic world, next to my MAC computers, needed because of what I write as a journalist, photographer word hacker and American consumerist, I jokingly value my personal defense weapons the next favorite thing. Many who are critics of politics, theology and food make an honest effort to protect them selves.
👹 Almost 80, I recently sold my offensive mostly competitive and offensive heavy toys and weapons since I am retired. For defensive use now I have a few small discreet personal arms, .40 and a .380 when on the road but I’ll rely on shotgun for greater personal protection if I run into a situation. My own home built custom Remington 1187 auto with 10 round capacity loaded with slugs and high intensity Tungsten Number fours.
👹 When you write about food as a critic, in my dreams I have a vision of a hatchet crazed chef mad because his Chicken Cordon Bleu tasted like KFC on steroids, and coming at me because I reported it as such.
👹 And always a chance for a nut-case starved wannabe supporting anti-semitic causes or white supremacy threatening me, let me help you get to Jesus sooner a lot sooner.
👹 Some of the products I write about as a religious consumer writer might just warrant protection too. Those who mysteriously get phone calls from God, or their believers get checks for thousands of dollars by praying, titheing, donating, and healings of cancer, leukemia, heart attacks, strokes, or a deadly ingrown toenail could easily rid the world of me. I’ll always defend myself and help them find Jesus a lot sooner. Oh, better tell your Mom not to send them money
👹 Television Preachers or Prosperity Preachers want your money. Do people really believe that crock of bovine excretion. They rape the US of funding for the poor, take money from your moms, grandmas and overseas folks of many dollars last year, and estimated might top 2019 at 65 billion this year. Totally world wide religious donations that never saw the poor topped 65 Billion not million but only 56 Billion can be accounted for.
👹 The NRA didn’t do too bad with 7,000,000 members at 30.00 plus they sucker each year plus donations from corporate gun manufacturers. There are better uses for these funds, real people in need. But funds are dropping off as members find the lies within. Not true anymore, they are busted.
- The Cycle is simple, dues money goes to NRA —
- Little is really spent, their programs are bullsh*t and underfunded — It’s Political
- It’s spent on product for the lucky eighteen Gun CEO’S for sales —
- The money stays amongst the lobby members — Everyone getting rich and singing “ Kumbaya"
- The millions collected is given to politicians to keep them re-elected —
- 31 million went to T-RUMP team-mates — and Congress Members for protection
- Just call it what it is protection money — And the lies about the 2nd Amendment go unchecked --
- The Gun Lobby steps in for disbursement, and the gun dealer kick back per gun funds to the NRA —
- Anything the NRA purchases or funds has to go through the eighteen members who are gun accessories manufacturers for sale to their members —
- Those eighteen are the elite of the NRA and Wayne La Pierre, the ultimate scumbags best buds —
- Some seeing the writing on the wall and are deserting the ship — More rats will go —
Loved Competition, My Guns And My Fellow Competitors — I spent years and lots of dollars as a dedicated competitive shooter earning points, not kills, in state and regional events for the sport of it. The combat defense side, rifle and some simple sniper training was provided by my affiliation with the Armed Services, and well enhanced by IPSIC, and body guard work courses and as a certified range officer. I loaded my own ammunition, in three calibers, like many competitors, and so forth. My garage was alike an ammo dump. You don’t get good watching movies, you burn the brass at the range.
I was fully emerged and the NRA was in a leadership role at one time in the shooting sports, not anymore. I really liked the sporting clays and skeet shooting.
I retired from competition some years ago, my age and related arthritis told me I was done, it means slower reflexes and I couldn’t compete against the kids anymore. My dentist told me I’ll need a new cheek if I kept up with the shotgun.
The long rifle and the shotgun were edging me into a condition called TMJ by displacing the cheekbones my right side. Tough decision but I gave up the large caliber rifle and shotguns. I still use my handguns and retrain once a month at the range with Glocks, Ruger and my Colt keeping fit.
My 1187 with extended mag will send ten slugs and/or hand loaded Titanium shot your way in seconds — Especially my homegrown shells with #5 super hard Titanium pellets which will make Sushi ( looking like a dead fish) out of you.
My armament was never used for harm, simply sport and protection. War was different. They gave us guns, but being aircrew at times I liked the big stuff, 500 lb. bombs and aircraft with nuclear capacity and for what they were intended. We made many golf courses in foreign countries simply as sand traps came with the missed WWII bombs. Some places in Afganistan and Iraq look like 6000 hole golf courses. I worked on charity events for the women’s sporting foundation, potentially meeting some of the younger shooters priming for the Olympics.
I shot sporting clays with the bear, General Norman Schwartzkoph, one hell of a shooter. I met with the Beretta family, even got a hat and borrowed a 20,000 dollar shotgun and fired icon greatness on one stage. I was ready to sell the house and get one.
Challenges, Great Soldiers, And Great Ladies Made The Game —
Then I was introduced to Louise Mandrell, an American country music singer. She is the younger sister of fellow country singer Barbara Mandrell, and older sister of actress Irlene Mandrell.
Louise had a successful singing career in country music from the 1970s, with a string of hits all during the 1980s. She is an extremely good clays shooter in the top ranks. Top drawer.
What a wonderful trio of beautiful ladies each a pretty as a button, and I was gaga over Irlene because she played drums, could do a set with anyone, I took drum lessons till the neighbors threatened to kill me and my parents. I hunted upstate NY and Maine and hunted and supported charities like the Special Olympics, still do.
Irlene Mandrell is an accomplished hunter. She has hunted North America US and Mexico, South America and Africa. She has killed several animals that qualify for the SCI Record Book. Mandrell is proficient with handgun, shotgun, rifle, and crossbow. She is very competitive in many sporting events, including as a race car driver.
She is an active member of Quail Unlimited, Buckmasters, the NRA, Safari Club International, a life member of National Wild Turkey Federation and the Sportsman Against Hunger banquet, the National Whitetail Deer Education Foundation
Irlene Mandrell participates in several charities, such as Pegasus, Special Olympics, American Heart Association, and Easter Seals, but is closest to Wish Upon A Star and the Boy Scouts. The Irlene Mandrell Celebrity Shoot raises a large amount of money for both Wish Upon A Star and the Boy Scouts. As a 501c3 charity event, the Shoot has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to these two causes.
I Loved The Games And Challenges — I loved the game, the competition and as club VP created websites for the industry in the days when the computer was born and supported one company on the web for 34 years. I support the second amendment when it protects people, but not when it is abused and lied about.
The amendment is a relative suggestion, all the amendments have lines of reason. You may own a gun but not a rocket launcher, nor a grenade. (They never mentioned the military weapons as sporters) Gun ownership is a privilege, not an excuse, and safety and proper usage is it’s defining role. Calling it a Colt sporter cost them 72 million dollars and a bankrupsty sell out.
The NRA Went Politically Incorrect — I cried when I saw what happened to those children having kids in that school range, and middle to high school, and thinking it can’t get worse, I was wrong.
It has happened again and again and in my own state three times. Now adding 17 more to the carnage enough is enough. It is a time for action not words, it has turned me against the lies and the politicians bought off by the gun lobby.
One picture here is significant, the guy in the grey shirt shooting an M-16 Shorty with picatinny rails, forward assist, small scope, collapse stock IS ME 35+ years ago when the shorty or correctly designated the M-4 carbine prototype was being field tested, a privilege and had not been issued as yet. Let me explain, the guy in the picture has hair, dark and plenty of it and during the test it was referred to as the M-17. Thirty-five years ago I had dark hair, now what little is left comes from a tube of a new dye shampoo.
Voters Don’t Vet Who They Vote For — Most voting decisions are made in the curtained voter both usually based on a previous decision by what TV Channel you watch or name recognition. This is wrong. Many votes are simply unthought of, unchallenged, unqualified and unsupported, you pick a name and lets see what happens. Lately seven, maybe eight of ten are bad choices.
And year after year, those same politicians will do nothing, respond to nothing, repair nothing, but cheerfully accept very large
“ donations from groups ¨ of semi-humans with small caliber brains that fuel the gun lobby, mainly the National Rifle Association with the complete knowledge of the usual propaganda and mis-truths.
Though a majority of members voted for more stringent gun controls, it went unheard by the NRA hierarchy.
In any other industry this would be called “Bribery”. In other countries, they might get shot. But this not the whole or real picture. This is wrong and it has gone on too long. The NRA recently stands for “ Nothing Real America” and has become in a sense its own militia.
The NRA is a company that talks about rights and freedoms and lies through its teeth to its constituents and members, ignoring their wishes and altering the progress needed to bring forward safety for all in the country. This is wrong. The truth is the position of the good members of the NRA is being ignored when a substantial percentage of 80% plus want to change the gun registration laws, with common sense approaches and enforce the established laws which are ignored. New leadership is needed. I wrote this 25 years ago.
In 2022 from the beginning of the year to JUNE — We have had 232 Mass murders in the United States. We let this go too far and it will escalate out of control with lenient carry laws and no background checks. We won’t need foreign jack-booted invaders to our country we’ll be too busy killing each other.