I'm Dissappointed in the NRA

[Wulf202]

Take the postage paid envelope from their junk mail and glue or tape it to a box, fill the box with assorted goods (bricks work) and drop it in the mail.

A credit card company got their very own piece of the rocky mountains from me after they kept sending me credit card apps that were pre approved and then they'd deny me. Hope they like the 15lb granite rock.

[wyzardd]

It's not that difficult to get the NRA to quit sending all that crap. I told them last time I reupped that I didn't want the magazine, the free gift, or the endless junk mail. I still get renewal notices every month or so, but nothing else from them.

Gotta be a member for the club

[ColoradoShooter]

+1 Dudley is on the ball!

RMGO, GOA, JPFO is the way to go...

another +1, and don't forget the Second Amendment Foundation too!

Sometimes I wish I had joined RMGO as a life member instead of NRA...sigh...at least I eventually learned.

I both regret and yet do not "regret" joining the NRA as a Life Member. I even asked if I could resign and have them send me a refund because I was so po'd by their support of some legislation...So, have I taken issue with NRA - hill yeah, and I let them know it too. But on balance, they still do a lot (NRA ILA, Friends of the NRA, Eddie Eagle, etc).

Let me also say this: There is a constructive purpose in having a more "moderate" gun rights lobby group. It can be a gateway for those who would be "scared" off with harder, no compromise groups. And, the others by comparison make the NRA look moderate, which can also be useful for our rights; for NRA has proven they are willing to say, "hey, you want to keep pushing this hardline, then you will have take us all on" and perhaps then we would not get compromise, maybe one day only a total illegal loss of all our rights...

Do I like that. Hill no! But the world ain't perfect. If you got issue with the NRA then do us all a favor and join GOA, RMGO, SAF, JPFO! Then pick up your pen and start writing you representatives too. I hope you're not just sitting there bitching or feeling smug 'cause your a member of this or that XYZ "guns right group. I am a force of one because I write letters to my reps. I am also part of a team working hard to preserve our rights. Are you?

It's sad to admit that I went for years (actually decade or more) with out renewing my NRA membership because I though they were too extreme. Now, I don't think they're extreme enough...go figure....

My point is that by rejoining the NRA, but that time as a LIFE member (in part for repentance), it turned out to be a gateway to me eventually working through my own philosophy and taking my own personal stand - which now is a very hard line!

If there wasn't the NRA alternative, then I doubt I would have gone straight to GOA, RMGO, etc....and to be honest, the first time I contacted Dudely at RMGO I was a bit turned off by their reaction when I told them I was also a Life NRA member....so I hesitated joining them at first...but now the rest is history.

Now my sig line says it all. And knowing this inside scope, you too know it is also a testament to my own journey in working through and owning this issue for myself.

You have to love this country. Here I also have the right to change my mind as well as make my mind up for myself (by doing my own research, etc.). So I exercised that right too.

Oh, and Pickenup made some excellent points as well, one page back.

'nuff said?

[Gman]

So....the NRA is a gateway 2nd Amendment org. That's a different perspective.