NRA Members Urged to Switch Membership to Gun Owners of America

(Savannah, GA) – Congressional Candidate John Stone today joined supporters across Georgia’s sprawling 12th Congressional district in resigning from and denouncing the National Rifle Association for selling out Americans’ Second Amendment Rights to political expediency in Tuesday’s election.

Anti-gun Democrat John Barrow scored below Republican challenger Stone in the NRA candidate issue survey, but was nevertheless endorsed over Stone by the NRA solely due to Barrow’s incumbency. Stone was solidly endorsed by America’s strongest 2nd Amendment advocacy organization, Gun Owners of America.

But it was the final-week appearance of NRA President Chris Cox in hundreds of thousands of dollars of campaign ads supporting Barrow that has led to lifetime NRA member resignations. The special-interest media campaign to rescue Barrow resulted in a big win for the incumbent, as the Stone campaign could not compete financially with the massive infusion of cash from Washington special interests.

The move by what had been the country’s largest 2nd Amendment advocacy organization was apparently part of a thinly-veiled effort to gain political acceptance in the upcoming Democrat-controlled federal government.

“We have unfortunately seen this same Machiavellian behavior from the NRA before, but never to the shameless extent as in this election,” says Stone. “John Barrow is the former Clarke County Commissioner who tried to ban hunting, and who is supporting plans by Obama, Pelosi, and Reid to introduce and pass new gun restriction laws in the next session of Congress.”

Stone says 2nd Amendment supporters should keep a close watch on NRA activities in 2009, when the group is expected to sign-off on the first series of Democrat bills to gradually restrict gun-ownership under laws similar to those already enacted in Great Britain and Australia, largely eliminating the individual right of gun ownership. In the trade-off deal, NRA would continue to raise funds from members to support ongoing advocacy efforts to “amend” the new laws as they passed over several years, keeping the organization alive.

Stone, an NRA member since the 1970’s, urged all current NRA members to resign and immediately join Gun Owners of America.