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Thank goodnes for the NRA. Been a member for 30 years. If not for them we would be screwed for sure. Everyone needs to join.
Be aware... !!! The membership packet will not be sent in 8 weeks and they refuse to issue any refund. Awful customer service... They refuse to issue and refund. Solution? Call your credit card company and open a dispute...
Don't waste your money.. NRA just can't do anything smart or productive....
You are the typical NRA guy... rude and ignorant....
You are the typical Paulbot. A moron and a troll.
This organization has done nothing but stall and come up with no ideas. They want a police state with armed guards on every corner, they do NOT endorse background checks which IF enforced would keep more guns out of the hands of nutjobs and felons. If you support this rag tag group of koollaid dispersing do nothings then you probably are a felon!
Do you have a little ron paul glued to the dash in your car?
I strongly suggest gun owners to drop the NRA. Their policies and compromises have been terrible for second amendment rights. Do your own research on this before you buy or renew your membership.
There are strong American gun ownership advocates groups that will represent you much better.
Join GOA instead.
http://gunowners.org/...
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not......
I paid like a month ago... still no membership number..... no mail or email... oh wait I started getting junk mails from NRA-affiliated organizations despite that I have unsubscribed several times.... NRA is PoS.... Don't tell me your membership processing is 2 months behind....
The NRA will never see another penny of my money, I joined two years ago and have been paying for a life membership of $1,000 and they are running a special for a life membership right now for $300 I called to get this great deal and was told I would have to cancel my current membership and lose all money paid and then pay the $300 they don't care about their members and only care about increasing their numbers for political purposes.
I have six kids and with times being tuff I barely make ends meet, so this would have been nice to get and they just refused to help me!
I will always be pro gun but I will never again be pro NRA!
Maybe you should call them on your free Obamaphone. You agreed to pay $1000. That money goes to defend the 2nd Amendment. So now I guess you aren't as committed to the 2nd Amendment as you were two years ago? Makes sense to me.
Their new flip flop on background checks is just plain STUPID, Unless of course you are all for felons and mental nutbags arming themselves, which is EXACTLY what they are fight for now.
To answer your question on the new laws passing, I believe anything can happen. We are talking about politicians with agendas who might not be rational or seek what is best for their constituents. A perfect example is the NY ban. The state of NY has many rural LEOs which provide their own on duty weapons. The new law made no exemptions for LEOs which means limited capacity magazines and no rifles.
My biggest concern is the lack of urgency and activism from gun owners. The attitude seems to be of hoarding and assumption that it is someone else's fight. The other interestimg fact, which is evident on this site, is the lack of support towards gun supporters. I agree that leaders and institutions on their best day are immensely flawed and have agendas. However, it is my view that it is time to support anyone that supports gun ownership.
Just want to add my 2 cents....I just recently joined the NRA. I heard good and bad about them over the years as a gun owner, but let me tell you all a quick reason why I joined. Although I will not discredit any other gun groups, I will say that in my state of illinois, during the most recent lame duck session, basically the first week of January, our liberal legislators attempted to pass some of the worst gun control legislation possible. In the process I joined Illinois carry, a group focused on all gun rights including a right to carry, which illinois prohibits unlike the other 49 states in our U.S. of A. During my time on that forum I kept hearing a reference to a guy name Todd who was fighting in our capitol. I had no idea who he was, but during that week while we fought against the gun control attempts, I found out exactly who he was. He was our NRA representative at the state capitol. He was VERY involved with the forum keeping everyone updated even up to the last minute changes the snakes in our capitol tried to pull to confuse everyone. Time and time again he provided updates and was representing us in the capitol fighting tooth and nail face to face while the rest of us sat in via conference calls or waiting to hear word as to what would be handed down. His ability to keep us updated, mobilize the troops, and fight the fight was a great feeling. Regardless of what I had heard of the NRA before, I knew I had to support someone who was supporting and fighting for my rights. Maybe our state is different, only the worst in the country for murder, while having some of the strictest gun laws...yet this guy was in the capitol fighting hard for me!! I joined that same day realizing who he was and what he was doing for us. Is every group perfect, probably not, but we must all combine our efforts and stick together. This fight reminds me of Native Americans who would side with the enemy to wipe out another tribe, only to find they were next!! We must stay united, support other groups if you want, but if the bad guys see the dissent among us, then we are divided, and will not succeed!!! We must stick together to fight for our rights! Don't bicker here about stupid things. Support the NRA or other gun groups or don't, but the last thing we should be doing is bad mouthing any group that is attempting to fight for our rights. They all have different methods, join who you want. Provide feedback to these groups if you have better ideas, some I read here made sense, so I don't disagree more can be done. But we must not fight amongst ourselves. The gun control groups are out there, not here! Give your money and support to the groups you believe in, and be present locally in everything you can! Anything else and you are part of the problem!! In my state, I witnessed the NRA fight hard, and our Representative is continuing to keep us updated daily, and is very involved, no one can say that is a bad thing. He represents us, and he listens to what we say. Maybe you should find out who represents you, and interact with that person more to ensure they are doing what you are paying them for, regardless of the group they represent. Sorry this is so long!
Booo...NRA, the "compromise" gun lobby.
Join GOA instead.
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/...
Got my gift card in the mail today. Took 2-3 week but the 3rd party offer for a bass pro gift card is legit
Thank you gun.deals for the NRA discount link. I was encouraged to get a 5 year membership - and send the link to others (who may have missed it).
Thank you gun.deals for the NRA discount link. I was encouraged to get a 5 year membership - and send the link to others (who may have missed it).
I rejoined - do i get the gift card in mail?
On Ar15dotcom in the general forum there are some people sponsoring others for the $300/Life Membership. We would be better served by a more reasonable, less acerbic advocates than Wayne LaPierre and Ted Nugent. We don't need the mentally insane running around with guns for sure. People with guns need to keep them locked up so that these crazy kids can't get a hold of them. We need a better mental health system and better gun checks. The NRA's response to Newtown was for armed guards in the schools, however sticking "Barney Fife" in every school isn't going to be very helpful. There needs to be a comprehensive training program involving Teachers, School Administrators and Local Police which needs to include an officer on campus 30 minutes before and after school hours, or something similar.
Protondecay123 said: "We would be better served by a more reasonable, less acerbic advocates than Wayne LaPierre and Ted Nugent."
You are a complete idiot.
Akanra said" You are a complete idiot". Obviously you weren't raised in a decent environment nor taught any manners.
protondecay123...I don't need manners and as a matter of fact I refuse to have them when I am dealing with you Leftist trolls. I don't care what you or your anti-gun buddies think. Don't come on here and pretend that you are anything that you are not. I am the NRA and Wayne LaPierre and Ted Nugent both represent my positions very well. No Compromise.
This is the issue I have with NRA....so stupid..... cant do anything productive.... get enemies everywhere and lose support from gun owners.... Apparently akanra has the same problem.... You don't need manners, I guess u don't need brain either....
You need your little phoney god ron paul to guide you through life don't you slickdick?
Concur. Training, individual responsibility, and rights to choose your defense should be the cause. Govt can do more to house the mentally ill rather than trust them to take their dose at home....used to be this way.
I'd like to see less obsurd propaganda. Attack the intellect. A liberal likes to choose to kill unborn children but they want to take my choice method of killing a derranged thug away (who was able to decide his actions).....pffft. Do an ad like that NRA.
Society needs to quit producing crazy kids. Firearms never used to be locked up and generation after generation of kids grew up around them and knew how to use them properly. Crazy liberals need to quit coming after guns when guns aren't the problem. Gun owners need to quit giving in to the left when it comes to gun issues. They don't wan't reasonable gun laws, they want all guns owned by private citizens gone. They will tell you what is reasonable, sort of like you are doing here, and move the bar that much further along. Agree to 10 round magazines then they will want it to be 7, then 5, then 1 bullet per gun.
It also doesn't matter who you have representing gun rights. If it was Mr. Rogers in charge of the NRA they would demonize him.
Registered just to agree with this. The NRA is failing 2A right now. For an organization with its resources and experience in the spheres of PR and politics, they are playing a lousy game right now. LaPierre has been nothing but a liability so far. Violent video games? Movies? Come on. Those scapegoats are just as tired as saying a 7 round magazine limit will solve a problem. They should have immediately shifted the discussion to mental health. The spotlight was on them, and they blew it. Meanwhile all you have on the TV is Ted Nugent and Alex Jones making 2A supporters look like lunatics. It doesn't help anything.
Then after LaPierre's awful news conference, they basically go silent again. Then they are dumb enough to release a video game, after blaming video games. Followed by someone thinking it would be a good idea to drag Obama's kids into the debate. It is like their PR department is full of interns. Rookie mistakes all over the place.
To keep Congress at bay, the NRA needs to make sure the centrists don't flip over to the anti's side. That is the mission. To do that, you should have got out ahead of the debate. They should have immediately shifted the conversation from "scary black guns" to mental health issues in America. They failed there. Now they have to show the centrists that they aren't going to be embarrassed by supporting the NRA position. So they put out a commercial that draws a negative response from just about every corner.
They need to fire LaPierre, clear out the PR/Media department, and get some normal people on TV and radio to explain why a new AWB and magazine limit isn't worth anything. Make it easy for some of these moderate Dems to support the NRA line.
I think our violent culture which includes video games, TV and movies, has a lot to do with why people want to commit mass murders. Why do I think that? ONE, reason is Anders Behring Breivik said he used video games to train with. Another reason would be the Army uses video games to train with. They play "games" which one of the objectives is to kill whatever gets in your way, in HDTV, on their 60" big screen. Just like real life.
Ever think about how a 20 year old kid can be splattering little kids and it not effect him? Maybe because he has already seen it already day after day playing "games". Why was he dropping mags before they were empty? Where did he get that training? He wasn't in the military. It was reported that he went target shooting, but I have not heard that he did any competitive shooting. I'm sure if he had, the MSM would have plastered that all over the TV trying to demonize the sport.
To think seeing violence day after day doesn't effect your thinking, seems ignorant to me.
VicVinegar is 100% correct. I come from a PR background and was astonished at the NRA's amateur response to Sandyhook. Wayne LaPierre cemented the impression that he's lost in the past when he cited the movie Natural Born Killers, which was released the same year Adam Lanza was born. If he's going to scapegoat Hollywood, at least reference something more recent. Attacking Hollywood for producing violent movies is an awkward direction to go with this response, especially considering the RNC's embrace of Clint Eastwood, who introduced the presidential candidate the NRA endorsed. That's the rallying cry we're all supposed to align behind? "Boo on Clint Eastwood for making movies that glorify gun violence!"
The NRA needs fresh leadership.
mtf
Not to happy with the NRA PR so far myself either.
I think there is LOTS of mileage to be explored with the mental health issue.
It would be nice to see the gun control nuts have to explain why we should focus on guns when the mental health issue would help so many more people (gun violence and non-gun violence).
Gun Owners of America gets my money from now on.
i couldn't agree more. the NRA is a fraud. i will not be renewing my membership after it expires this year. there are so many different and more legitimate 2A groups. Gun Owners of America, National Association for Gun Rights to name a few. NRA supported the NFA and GCA both laws that tread on our 2A. now the NRA is calling for the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to provide armed guards at all schools?!?! it's not up to the FEDS to protect our LOCAL schools. how about local government's actually set aside additional money for the PDs to provide school resource officers (SROs). heck i already thought we had SROs after Columbine. I know in my small town in GA we had a SRO. by the way, the city providing a SRO seems more Constitutional than the FEDS putting armed guards in our schools. don't our schools already seem like prisons? cameras, medal detectors, etc. take your money elsewhere..heck the NRA supports any candidate that is "pro2A". just ask harry reid who the NRA supported. yet harry reid treads on our Constitution ALL THE TIME (just like the rest of the clowns in the GOP and DEMS). Ron Paul said it best..."GOA is the only no compromise gun lobby in Washington" that's what i want!! the Constitution isn't up for debate or compromise. it is the FOUNDATION of our REPUBLIC, what it outlines is what we need to govern by. that includes equality for all and gun rights...LIVE FREE
Just a little food for thought: a $25 membership covers 2.3 minutes of Wayne LaPierre's paycheck (based on publicly available 990 filings).
This is big-money corporate lobbying, and individual gun owners and our rights are drops in the bucket.
Like it or not, NRA is still our strongest proponent today. Look around and see if you see any alternative large pro-gun organization out there. All I see are a bunch of small groups with disparate agenda. Some has too broad of a scope, such as wanting to include government fiscal responsibility, pro-life, pro-religion, school reform, etc., all of which are good, but the pro-gun programs become much lower in priority. Then there are some others that are too narrow in scope, such as the pro-hunting lobby, or a concealed carry group. Of course we can choose not to support the NRA, and sit silent at home.
Well, call it what you will"silent at home etc." But I'm a 21 year retired military vet who's given his LAST dollar to Wayne LaPierre and his loudmouth fear mongering do nothing agenda. he's Glenn Beck minus the tears and none of the publicity, and he's done NOTHING for me lately.
I'm thinking troll. You don't like the NRA fine, there are plenty of people who don't. Most of them don't support the 2ndA though. Personally I'm not going to get picky, If someone wants to take on Congress over the 2nd A, I'm with em. Who do you suggest represent gun owners in Washington?
You are exactly right wasntme. I just got done writing the same thing up above. There are a bunch of anti-gun trolls commenting on here that are pretending that they are pro-gun and anti-NRA. I guess since they don't work they don't have anything better to do.
troll? how about not a sheep anymore...the NRA is a fraud. who represents the 2A and gun owners??? there's quite a bit and plenty tht don't compromise like the NRA (NFA and GCA) or how about calling for the FEDS to fund armed guards in schools. that's not their place, let the local PDs and governments do that. there is Gun Owners of America (the one guy that debated Piers Morgan By the way), National Association for Gun Rights...just look
Gun Owners of America: http://www.gunowners.org/...
Second Amendment Foundation: http://www.saf.org/...
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms: http://www.ccrkba.org/...
The Second Amendment Sisters: http://www.2asisters.org/...
Women Against Gun Control: http://wagc.com/index.html...
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership: http://www.jpfo.org/...
Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership: http://www.claremont.org/projects/pr...ect_detail.asp...
The Pink Pistols: http://www.pinkpistols.org/...
Armed and Secure: http://www.armedandsecure.org/...
plus this doesn't unclude your local state's groups. in georgia they have Georgia Carry and in Colorado they have the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners...don't let the NRA fool you into thinking they are the only group. this group could give two sh*ts about the Constitution as long as their pockets are lined..
So, "not a sheep", how many of those are you a member of?
I'm a member of the NRA, NSSF, SAF, Gun Owners of America, NAGR, and National Association for Gun Rights. There might be more I can't think of right now. I am not a woman, a jew, or a doctor so I'm, not a member of those. Looks like you did a search and posted the results. I'm still going with troll.
And the question still remains, who do you suggest represent gun owners in Washington? We know who you don't like, tell us who yo do. Don't just post a listing, stand up for something instead of trying to knock down others..
wasntme...I am not a Jew either but I have paid dues to the JPFO in the past because you don't have to be a Jew and they will not compromise. Now I focus on giving my money to the NRA and GOA because I see them in action and I know my money is furthering the cause.
I see libertarian posted the homosexual group Pink Pistols as one of his favorites. Go figure. I dropped my subscription to Shotgun News a while back because they were trying to force the Pink Pistol homosexual agenda down everyone's throat.
Paulbots drive me insane.
libertarian...that is all fine and dandy. You support all of those other groups and I will support the NRA. I am all for as many uncompromising pro-gun groups as we can get. As a matter of fact I am also a member of the GOA and I have been a member of the JPFO in the past. My opinion is that every Constitution-loving American should join the NRA. If you don't like the NRA then shut up and go on about your day.
Already a member, but it is very good to see this at the top of the page. :)
Call 18886787894 to get a lifetime membership for $300. Promotion is running until Mar 31 as far as Icould tell. You don't need a current life member to "sponsor" you using that number.
The NRA's go stealth duck & hide response to Sandy Hook for a week after the shooting was UNFORGIVABLE. Then when they do pop up, their response is to put armed guards in schools. Ok.........ask yourself where have the mass shootings taken place. Malls, churches, universities, schools, post offices, parking lots etc etc etc..............so what happens when you put armed guards in all of them nation wide? I'll tell you what. A POLICE STATE, which is the exact opposite of what anyone wants, even tin foil helmet wearing conspiracy theorists nutbags. So the NRA, hasn't got a clue how to proceed, except to take your money, and hide when they need to speak the loudest, and surface scratching their heads and PUNT!
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