Gun Control & RKBA

National Council to Control Handguns (NCCH)

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Brady Campaign

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence are affiliated American nonprofit organizations that advocate for gun control and against gun violence. Together, they are commonly referred to as the Brady Campaign. They are named after James "Jim" Brady, who was permanently disabled as a result of the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt of 1981, and Sarah Brady, who was a leader within the organization from 1989 until 2012.

The Brady Campaign was founded in 1974 as the National Council to Control Handguns (NCCH). From 1980 through 2000 it operated under the name Handgun Control, Inc. (HCI). In 2001, it was renamed the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, and its sister project, the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, was renamed the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_Campaign

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The effort to ban handguns failed so it was decided to try an incremental approach to banning firearms. At that time "assault rifles" were not all that popular so they became the first target. Perhaps because of this effort a lot of people in the shooting sports grew curious about such weapons and discovered they more accurate and reliable than was commonly believed . Support for weapons such as the AR-15 grew and now they are quite popular and many variations were manufactured and now many shooters prefer them over the once very common bolt action rifles.

The Democratic Party unfortunately became known as the "Gun Control Party" and many gun owners decided to vote against any and all Democrats. Unfortuately this has cost the Democratic Party many elections over the years and will continue to do so as long as the party keeps pushing gun bans. The effort to ban firearms has cost the Democratic Party as much as the Republican efforts to ban abortions. Both issues are a ball and chain attached to the ankle of the Party who favor them.

Hillary was a strong supporter of gun control measures and even mentioned the Australian gun buy back program was worth considering perhaps not realizing that it was in reality not a voluntary program but instead mandatory. That statement might have been one of the major factors in why she lost the election to the often obnoxious Trump.

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The Australian Law Banned and Confiscated Guns

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The crucial fact they omit is that the buyback program was mandatory. Australia’s vaunted gun buyback program was in fact a sweeping program of gun confiscation. Only the articles from USA Today and the Washington Post cited above contain the crucial information that the buyback was compulsory. The article by Smith-Spark, the latest entry in the genre, assuredly does not. It’s the most important detail about the main provision of Australia’s gun laws, and pundits ignore it. That’s like writing an article about how Obamacare works without once mentioning the individual mandate.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/06/25/the-australia-gun-control-fallacy/

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The NRA made sure gun owners were aware of that fact. You can bet that most gun owners fear the possibility of any mandatory confiscation legislation and will show up at the polls to vote against those who support it. Since there are an estimated 80,000,000 gun owners in our nation that can make the difference in a close election.