I got the same call here in Rhode Island. I get lots of this type of call at my business; I suspect they are calling small businesses, whom they think might be more supportive. Ha. The caller kept spouting about the 2nd amendment. I asked her to tell me what the 2nd says. "The right to bear arms." I asked for the entire amendment and was told she "couldn't be expected to know the entire amendment." So I recited it to her. Yeah, all of one sentence. Morans.

Gee, I thought when Wayne said at CPAC "Our Founding Fathers understood that the guys with the guns make the rules" he was channeling his inner Chairman Mao.

I got this call last Friday (10/9) in Minneapolis. I can't imagine
what list they are are calling from. I was curious so I didn't cut it off.
They asked for permission to play a message from Wayne LaPierre, then sent me to a different live rep with more dreck.
Wish I could/would have recorded it. It was WAY over the top. I can corroborate what the others in the article and in the above comments said.

No I don't. I don't believe it's any of their business if I own guns or not. The second amendment protects my ability to say no to tyranny, and in my opinion it's settled law.

The NRA has long been one of the most effective lobbying arms of the weapons industry. Every time NRA members vomit out the talking points LaPierre feeds them, they are giving invaluable (and free) cover to Boeing, Smith and Wesson, Northrop Grumman, Colt, Bushmaster, Lockheed-Martin, Raytheon, Honeywell, and a host of other U.S. weapons manufacturers. They make the lion's share of money in the international market, and make the U.S. the main source for arms in the world by an overwhelming factor. This is not the 2nd amendment crowd you hear squealing like pigs, this is the corpocracy itself.

I've been wondering where these guys have been. All summer long folks were toting guns at health care rallies and they didn't say anything about those individuals right to bear arms. A doctor was killed in his own church and a security guard was killed in a museum honoring the memory of Holocaust victims, yet they said nothing about how no gun violence is their fault. Now they're out with this garbage? Ask them about guns at public meetings. I'm curious to know what their stance is on that one since it's clear that they're just going to use fear and paranoia (their usual tactics) over the UN issue.

My reading is this is not about American gun rights. This demonstrates where the NRA's bread gets buttered: the gun industry. These guys realize that a non-trivial amount of their product ends up getting exported legally and otherwise, and don't want to get on that slippery slope.

Of course, it doesn't hurt that the NRA's flush with cash and narry a legislative battle to fight- no one wants to take on guns anymore. So they have to drum up controversy, to show donors they're doing something.

If there's a rule of thumb in this country, it's that if both Republicans and Democrats agree on anything, it is a terribly bad idea without an any redeeming value whatsoever. The right to carry howitzers and sell them to whomever whereever whenever no matter how much of that involves unlawful killing cum insurrection is a pretty good example of that. Unending wars, the supremacy of the executive, free trade no matter the consequences, etc. are a few others.

I received this call at least a month ago, but I think it was more like two months ago. in Columbia, SC

I got the call yesterday. I didn't want to listen to the recording and told the lady I didn't have time for that, and could she just read me the poll question? She was very nice, and read it to me, word-for-word as quoted in the article.

I guffawed, and said worded like that, how could anybody not agree with it? I was chuckling and bantering with her about how they should really re-word the poll question, because they really weren't going to find out anything this way.

I also told her that I had an impish streak, and I was really, really tempted to say, "Yes, I think third-world dictators should dictate our gun policy," just to send a message to the poll writers.

She was nice, and chuckling with me all the way through. Wonder if she was a "true believer" or just someone they hired to do the poll.

Why do they do polls like this? So they can publish it in their magazine? If someone finds out the "results" at some point, can you please comment here? I'd like to know how big the group is that I should've joined, voting for the third-world dictators. Almost makes me wanna move to Pyongyang.