MORE DECEPTION FROM NRA
Gun owners across Oregon are receiving large orange postcards from the NRA urging them to vote for Gordon Smith.
The cards, which accurately portray Jeff Merkley as an enemy of gun rights, falsely claim that Smith voted in favor of “legislation enacted into law ending bogus lawsuits against gun manufacturers.”
The fact is, Smith DID NOT vote in favor of S 397, “the gun manufacturers and dealers immunity bill.” As you can see by the record, Smith did not vote on passage of the bill at all.
He did however, vote in favor of the anti-gun amendments that were tacked on before the bill passed. Smith went so far as to send out mail claiming to have voted against the “anti-gun amendments” when in fact, he did the exact opposite.
The NRA fails to mention that Smith supported a reintroduction of the Clinton ban on modern firearms, and while warning voters that “if Barack Obama is elected we will face the most anti-gun president in American history” they fail to mention that Smith has campaigned almost exclusively on his close ties to Obama and other gun grabbers like Ted Kennedy and Ron Wyden.
The mailing makes no mention of other candidates for Senate who are solidly pro-gun.
They also urge voters to support John McCain, who they themselves called “…one of the premier flag carriers for the enemies of the Second Amendment.”
The posted ratings for candidates on the NRA website endorse anti-gun Congressman Peter DeFazio while ignoring his pro-gun opponent.
This year gun owners may be facing the gravest threat to their gun rights ever. Obama and Merkley are clearly and openly anti-gun. But the NRA does voters a serious disservice by willfully distorting the records of candidates they back. Furthermore, by supporting candidates who have serious anti-gun records, they make it easy for the anti-gun forces to attack, as in this article by the head of an anti-gun front group.
Voters and gun owners deserve the truth They are not getting it from the gun grabbers, and they are not getting it from the NRA.
