By Chris Chumita

If you can’t beat them, join them. Or at least make them think that you did. That seems to be the latest game plan of the gun-grabbers. The anti-gun and anti-hunting organizations are changing their tactics after a series of humiliating defeats at the hands of gun owners.

What better way to defeat the gun lobby than to fool unsuspecting gun owners into thinking that you are one of them? Not only will you being taking monetary donations from real pro-gun organizations, but you could get gun owners to vote for anti-gun candidates by making some key endorsements. That appears to be the strategy of at least one organization, the American Hunters and Shooter’s Association (AHSA). The scary part is that it might work.

When you first look at their web site, the AHSA appears to be a pro-gun organization. However, the devil is in the details. Not only do you not get a clear picture on how they stand on many gun issues, the entire web site is filled with “code” words that set off red flags in the minds of Second Amendment activists. Here are some examples from their web site (emphasis added):

“AHSA is committed to advancing common-sense gun policy initiatives that will have an immediate impact on violence, crime, accidental injury and death and make our country safer.”