The NRA has been catching a lot of heat lately, but it’s lovely when they receive a fan letter.
Gary W. Bornman sent the NRA a sincere thank you! Bornman, a felon with 80 convictions under his belt, is now held in a federal “Supermax” prison in Colorado, wrote to the NRA via an op-ed recently. In the letter Bornman thanked the NRA for killing a bipartisan gun bill to expand background checks earlier this year. Bornman, who currently is serving a 20-year sentence for bank robbery, wrote to the Hartford Courant explaining how easy it will be for him to obtain a gun even though he is legally banned from buying one.
As a lifelong career criminal, although I no longer enjoy the right to keep and bear arms, I’d like to take a moment to express my appreciation to the National Rifle Association for nonetheless protecting my ability to easily obtain them through its opposition to universal background checks.
Upon release in a few years from my current federal sentence on bank robbery and weapons charges, I fully anticipate being able to stop at a gun show on my way home to Connecticut — where new laws have made it nearly impossible for a felon to readily purchase guns or ammunition — in order to buy some with which to resume my criminal activities. And so, a heartfelt thank you to the NRA and all those members of Congress voting with them. I, along with tens of thousands of other criminals, couldn’t do what we do without you.
Read the rest of Borman’s story, and his plans for the future – which is considerably easier because guns are still readily available to him.