| 
            
              | 
 | 
                
                
                  
                    | 
                              
                                   
                                        | 
                              
                              
                              NOTE! 
                               
                              This is a real-time comments system. As such, it's also a
                      free speech zone within guidelines set forth on the Post
                      Comments page. Opinions expressed here may or may not
                      reflect those of KeepAndBearArms staff, members, or
                      any other living person besides the one who posted them.
                      Please keep that in mind. We ask that all who post
                              comments assure that they adhere to our Inclusion
                              Policy, but there's a bad apple in every
                              bunch, and we have no control over bigots and
                              other small-minded people.  Thank you. --KeepAndBearArms.com
                              
                              
                                         |  
                         
                         The
                      Below Comments Relate to this Newslink:
                         
                                       
                                            
                      
     
  
    | Firearms industry distances itself from Cody Wilson, 3D-printed guns Submitted by: 
			
Mark A. Taff
 Website: http://www.marktaff.com
 | 
			There 
				is 1 comment 
			 	on this storyPost Comments | Read Comments
 |  
    | During the Second Amendment Foundation’s annual gun rights policy conference in Tamp, Florida last weekend, Wilson revealed he was denied membership to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearms industry’s largest trade group, for reasons he is unsure of.
 
 “We’ve been controversial for so long to the point it’s normalized,” Wilson told Guns.com in an earlier interview. “Did Defense Distributed really do anything that is that controversial — especially within the firearms industry and the gun movement? No. They know who we are, they know who we represent. We’re mainline people. We’re represented by people like SAF in the courts. We represent your right to bear arms, we didn’t do anything irresponsibly.”
 |  
 
 
     
  
    | Comment by: 
     mickey
     (9/30/2016) |  
    | Contrary to popular belief, the NRA is not "The Gun Lobby", focused on increasing profits for the "Evil Gun Industry", that's NSSF's job. 
 Defense Distributed's business model is based on helping DIYers bypass the gun industry. It's not surprising that the NSSF is not on their side.
 |  
 
 |  |  
              | QUOTES
                TO REMEMBER |  
              | 
                    
                      | We'll take one step at a time, and the first is necessarily - given the political realities - very modest.  We'll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen the next law and again and again.  Our ultimate goal, total control of handguns, is going to take time.  The first problem is to slow down production and sales.  Next is to get registration.  The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and ammunition (with a few exceptions) totally illegal.  — Pete Shields, founder of Handgun Control, Inc., New Yorker Magazine, June 26, 1976, pg. 53 |  |  |