NRA membership

[Bob33]

Great idea for a Christmas gift, especially this year.

[jrebel]

NRA life members for 3 of 4 in our family....

[woodswalker]

Gun owners are a stubborn, independent and cranky bunch. They are prone to quarrel with each other over the slightest difference. It takes a very big tent to contain them all. Right now the NRA is it. If we start to splinter, then become our own worse enemy in the face of this liberal onslaught. This is not the time to argue among ourselves.

Look at the respective membership levels.  4+ million @ NRA, a few hundred thousand at GOA, JFPO and Second Amendment Foundation.  Numbers are clout, whether you totally agree with the stance or not.  The REST of the groups total roughly 1/4 of the NRA..

Yes i think that the NRA is a bit too soft at times...but if so...Join one of the hard-over groups ALSO! (what i did, 2A and GOA as well as long term lifer NRA).  as far as i know...no one cross checks the membership records.

We have 3 lifers in my house.

[Jamieb]

A couple of days ago I upgraded my NRA membership to life, I also got a life membership to SAF http://www.saf.org/

[Bean Counter]

Gun owners are a stubborn, independent and cranky bunch. They are prone to quarrel with each other over the slightest difference. It takes a very big tent to contain them all. Right now the NRA is it. If we start to splinter, then become our own worse enemy in the face of this liberal onslaught. This is not the time to argue among ourselves.

Look at the respective membership levels.  4+ million @ NRA, a few hundred thousand at GOA, JFPO and Second Amendment Foundation.  Numbers are clout, whether you totally agree with the stance or not.  The REST of the groups total roughly 1/4 of the NRA..

Yes i think that the NRA is a bit too soft at times...but if so...Join one of the hard-over groups ALSO! (what i did, 2A and GOA as well as long term lifer NRA).  as far as i know...no one cross checks the membership records.

We have 3 lifers in my house.

good points

[Curly]

If you're a life member, does the NRA keep calling and harassing you for donations?  At least I assume they don't keep calling when your membership is about to lapse because it never will. 

I got tired of the phone calls all the time asking for money or asking for me to donate to a particular candidate, sending mailings all the time........seems like they spend a ton of money in postage and paper. 

I do feel a little guilty about not renewing my membership, especially after this latest shooting and the liberals trying to go after 2A rights..............   I might just go the life membership route and give them a fake email address and fake phone number, and I can deal with the junk mail.

[Jamieb]

I've never put a phone number down on anything going to the NRA, even the RSO paperwork. Any mail from the NRA get treated like all the rest of the adds, drop in the trash can on the way from the mailbox to the house.

[300UltraMagShooter]

If you need proof about where your $$$ goes at least in part, just look at the court cases that gun-rights activists have won in the last few years.  ALL because of the NRA.  Now, is the NRA perfect, no... but like has been mentioned, this is not the time to be divided.  If you want to attack the NRA, please wait till the smoke settles down at the very least.

We have lost more than we have won in the last 10 years or so (in the world of self-governance and limited governance)...  the NRA is one of the few bright spots where we see clear successes.  If the left is attacking you as viciously as they are attacking the NRA, you know they are a STRONG front in this war we are in.

 

[chukarchaser]

The NRA is the best we have and right now it is how the *censored*s and national media will judge our strength and resolve.  I was complacent and had not enrolled my two children. but that changed today as I bought them memberships. 

[marlin]

If I had the money, Id become a life member right now to help the fight.. I really hope the NRA or other organizations can save our rights and freedoms from being taken away.. Im watching the news and they have some sort of gun buyback program where the anti's are buying them to get them off the street.. I cant believe gun owners are already starting to hand in their guns.. They said something like 75 bucks for handguns, 100 for rifles, and "much more" for "assault type" rifles??
Dont give your guns to the gov and ppl wanting to destroy them!!!

[Bean Counter]

You guys make a pursuasive argument. I will reconsider my position and think about re joining. 

[christopheri]

I hate all the phone calls at 7 oclock at night asking for more money.

[Sitka_Blacktail]

I can't support the NRA. I gave up my membership years ago. They support too many radical politicians who I would never vote for. I don't believe the NRA really wants a definitive ruling from the Supreme Court on the 2nd Amendment either. It would put them out of business if the Court said gun ownership is guaranteed by the Constitution. The NRA likes the controversy over the 2nd Amendment because it generates the big bucks for them. And like all big organizations, they like the big bucks.

I do support the 2nd Amendment Foundation tho.

[lokidog]

I hate all the phone calls at 7 oclock at night asking for more money.

It would be nice to be able to opt out of the fundraising and letters.  I like the magazine though.

[Mauser]

If you want to keep shooting they are the only game in town; the other washington, with any ability to stop the people that want you to stop. It is easy to recycle their flyers. I doubt that you will find any organization with 4 million members that you can agree with on every topic. If you don't belong to the NRA or other firearms activist group you should go quietly to the lines to turn in your weapons if or when the time comes. No complaining. I was surprised at the press conference. I really thought they might cave-in on some of the issues this time but they are continuing to hold the line. Really it's $35. a year, or the equivalent of one large pizza and pitcher of beer.