Michael Blanding has an article on American Hunters and Shooters Association on The New Republic’s website (this will also presumably be in the print issue as well).
Mr. Blanding’s article does a nice job of sugarcoating AHSA, but in order to do, he left out a few pertinent facts. In the interest of fairness, here’s just a couple of things that bother me about the article (why do I always find these things an hour before I’m going on the air?).
- John Rosenthal isn’t just some guy who left the Brady Campaign in 2004 because they were too “anti-gun”. He’s also the head of Stop Handgun Violence in Mass. Mr. Blanding has to know about this, considering he wrote a glowing profile of Rosenthal six months ago. But pointing out that Rosenthal is still the head of anti-gun organization doesn’t really fit the piece in TNR, so I can see why he’d want to leave it out.
- Robert Ricker isn’t just an attorney who used to work for pro-gun outfits. He’s also been a paid expert witness for anti-gun groups trying to sue firearms manufacturers.
NRA-ILA head Chris Cox wrote an excellent piece about American Hunters and Shooters recently. You can find it here.
For an organization with 100-150 members, they certainly are getting a lot of press. Something tells me the anti-gunners really want to see this organization succeed.
By the way, I put in an email to Mr. Blanding this evening, asking if he’d like to come on “Cam and Company” to discuss the article. I’ll let you know if I get a response.
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Saw somewhere (maybe David Hardy) that the AHSA is bankrolled by the Joyce Foundation. Yeah, that Joyce foundation.
Just when I think they’ve hit thier pinacle, they outdo themselves again. I nearly choked on my venisen when I saw Kerry in blaze orange with a shotgun. Of course we didn’t buy it, and I thought that was going to be the peak of thier deception efforts. What’ll try when they realise nobody’s been fooled by AHSA? Handgunners for Public Safety? There’s got to be a ceiling to hit at some point. I wonder what angle they’ll use when they’ve exhausted the deception tactic?
American Hunters and Shooters Association…
The New Republic, like the Washington Monthly before it, is hyping this newly hatched groupuscule which aims to woo gun owners into an anti-NRA coalition. Trouble is, it’s a bit of an uphill slog convincing……
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You might want to check out gunlawnews.org
click on AHAS.
Yahoo is my home page,don’t know if that’s needed to find site.
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I thought the best part was the “group’s” web domain being registered to the DLC’s PR firm, with a mailing address in the same office building. Hasn’t anybody in the Democratic party heard of “cutouts”?
Of course, it probably would be a waste of time for the Democratic party to expend too much effort on these propaganda fronts; They’re not intended to fool anybody who doesn’t want to be fooled.
If you’re an anti-gun reporter looking for some fake “ballance” in a story you’re writing, fronts like the AGS or AHSA are useful resources, and you probably don’t much care that they’re fronts.
[…] You can tell the American Hunters and Shooters Association is full of it when they refer to the National Rifle Association as extremists. Of course, the American Hunters and Shooters Association is headed up by a bunch of anti-gun hacks and is no friend to gun owners. The press, of course, seems to love these guys. The NRA is extremist, you see, for actually being a pro-gun group that, you know, doesn’t advocate more gun control. […]
As this is my first comment here, might I quickly interject that your byline is counterproductive from a RKBA perspective? Many of us liberal “moonbats” are pretty pro-gun.
However, I think your larger point is spot on; as I patrol the “moonbat” pages like DU and HuffPo, swatting the gun controllers in the name of true personal choice (the whole point of my site, after all, is that you can’t be pro choice when it comes to abortion, free speech, marriage, drugs, sexuality, freedom of expression, etc as most liberals and progressives are…and then not support the freedom to choose to DEFEND YOURSELF), I frequently find discussions on the AHSA as an “alternative” to the NRA.
I guess some moonbats who happen to be virulently anti gun think we gunnies (even weenie progressive ones like me) are dumb enough to fall for the AHSA’s sock puppetry.
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