NRA's Montana SNAFU

News Release, Montana Shooting Sports Association

It looks like NRA is sabotaging Montana legislation clarifying "the right to self defense with firearms."

MSSA attributes it to a mid-level staffer thwarting the clear will of NRA management.

Call me cynical, but if NRA doesn't fire the guy, I'd say he's doing exactly what his masters want him to do. I can't help but wonder which legislator(s) they're appeasing?

It's not like we haven't seen a disconnect between what Fairfax says and what it does before.

I'd like to be wrong this time. But the term "SNAFU" speaks volumes.
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Andy Barniskis passes along this on-topic addendum:

Last year in Pennsylvania, NRA employee John Hohenwarter agreed to not to oppose legislation that was very hostile to gun rights (HB 2403) on condition that it be kept in committee until after the 2004 NRA Convention in Pittsburgh. Perhaps he didn't want betrayed NRA members to make a fuss at the convention. Mr. Hohenwarter and his boss Randy Kozuch did this without consulting any grass roots organizations or NRA legal council [sic] and they never responded to inquiries into the matter. Every major sportsmen's group in Pennsylvania united in the largest coalition in our history to oppose the anti-gun rights legislation that the NRA did not oppose.

We have received recent reports that John Hohenwarter replaced a competent NRA state liaison in New Hampshire and NRA members in New Hampshire are now trying to undo the damage.

Now we see that Montana NRA members have good reason to be angry with Randy Kozuch...

Harry Schneider, PSA Chairman
Pennsylvania Sportsmen's Assn.,
NRA Life Member