Harry Reid worked very hard to bring a shooting park to Nevada pleasing the National Rifle Association. The NRA even donated $4,950 to his campaign and favored the Democrat campaign finance bill in exchange for being exempted from the bill’s requirements. How nice to pay off the Majority Leader for a little favor on the back side of the legislation.

Chris Cox, chairman of the NRA Political Victory Fund, the group’s political action committee, said it would not be endorsing the majority leader. He cited Mr. Reid’s push to confirm Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, whom the NRA opposed.

“The vote on Elena Kagan’s confirmation to the Court, along with the previous year’s confirmation vote on Sonia Sotomayor, are critical for the future of the Second Amendment,” Mr. Cox said.

The NRA most likely had second thoughts since Erick Erickson of RedState.com urged his readers in July to pressure the NRA not to formally back Mr. Reid.

“Both people at the NRA and people in the Senate are telling me the NRA will be endorsing Harry Reid later this year and the only way to stop it is to be very vocal about it right now,” Mr. Erickson wrote.

It should still be noted the NRA is willing to pay off politicians so they can receive favored status for legislation similar to Wal-Mart looking for favors from Sen. Blanche Lincoln, one of the chief architects of the financial-regulation overhaul, who pushed for a change that would benefit a bank in her home state of Arkansas. The bank, Arvest Bank Group Inc., of Bentonville, Ark., is predominantly owned by the Walton family, of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Unfortunately, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that the NRA does not plan to endorse Ms. Angle either. The Conservative voices seemed to apply enough pressure on the NRA to back off of its Reid support so now they have decided it’s politically safe to stay on the sidelines. Keep in mind the NRA put money toward Reid and not Mrs. Angle.

My advice – don’t become a member of the NRA, don’t join the NRA, don’t contribute to the NRA. If they wish to support candidates in any manner that are dangerous to the US Constitution then despite the rhetoric, organizations like the NRA have leaders that are dangerous to the US Constitution and must be stopped. Indeed!

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