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Lamps3

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Yesterday I saw that the day before was the NRA anniversary, so I started looking around on their website. I chose to take the plunge in getting a membership with them. Got subscription to AR and I am also supposed to receive a pretty good size bag, pin, and decals. The only thing that was a little disgruntling for me is it didnt take them but about five seconds to hit me up for more money to donate to them to help them out. That wasnt cool after just paying them several hundred dollars!!! I hope this is not what it is going to be from here on out always asking for donations. You long term members does the NRA constantly hound you for donations???
 
Yeah while I don’t get much in mail fear mongering anytime I renew my Instructor stuff (which is off years of my membership) they still are not bashful on hitting me up.

And the fact every edition of American Rifleman has a Turkish Tsias, Girsan or Canik on the cover so maybe they should rename it Turkish Rifleman!
 
Lamps3 said:
Yesterday I saw that the day before was the NRA anniversary, so I started looking around on their website. I chose to take the plunge in getting a membership with them. Got subscription to AR and I am also supposed to receive a pretty good size bag, pin, and decals. The only thing that was a little disgruntling for me is it didnt take them but about five seconds to hit me up for more money to donate to them to help them out. That wasnt cool after just paying them several hundred dollars!!! I hope this is not what it is going to be from here on out always asking for donations. You long term members does the NRA constantly hound you for donations???
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Yep. GOA does too. Any group you become a member of these days does. I ignore them.
 
Lamps3 said:
Yesterday I saw that the day before was the NRA anniversary, so I started looking around on their website. I chose to take the plunge in getting a membership with them. Got subscription to AR and I am also supposed to receive a pretty good size bag, pin, and decals. The only thing that was a little disgruntling for me is it didnt take them but about five seconds to hit me up for more money to donate to them to help them out. That wasnt cool after just paying them several hundred dollars!!! I hope this is not what it is going to be from here on out always asking for donations. You long term members does the NRA constantly hound you for donations???
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I’m a NRA lifetime member and can honestly say I don’t get much solicitation for donations except sometimes through the mail. Since WLP left, I’ve not donated, wanting them to reduce the board which I think is over 70 people currently (almost all boards of major corporations are in the 10-12 range, so why is the NRA’s that large?)
Now I can honestly say that the worst group for donation solicitation for me is the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), which I’m an annual member of. I do donate to them as they do good work (along with the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) which I’m a lifetime member of)), bringing lawsuits forth to help the 2A cause. I’ll usually get 2 per day emails asking for money that I just ignore (you can opt out, but I just delete them and occasionally will give them some $$$).
Gun owners of America (GOA), I’m an annual member of, asks for $$$ more than the NRA but not more than the FPC (at least in my case).
 
Lamps3 said:
Yesterday I saw that the day before was the NRA anniversary, so I started looking around on their website. I chose to take the plunge in getting a membership with them. Got subscription to AR and I am also supposed to receive a pretty good size bag, pin, and decals. The only thing that was a little disgruntling for me is it didnt take them but about five seconds to hit me up for more money to donate to them to help them out. That wasnt cool after just paying them several hundred dollars!!! I hope this is not what it is going to be from here on out always asking for donations. You long term members does the NRA constantly hound you for donations???
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That's all it is now... but they're trying to get better.

Congrats on a very cheaply made Chinese bag. :)
 
I have often been at odds with the NRA over the years, but they are the one organization over the years that have kept the lawmakers in line with the Founding Fathers. We came within a whisker of losing handguns in the Gun Control Act of 1968. I am an Endowment Member, but every gun owner needs to be a member. We have to have numbers on Capital Hill. I am not going to argue this or debate how you disagree with them. Numbers matter. If you are not a member, you are not doing your part. You don't have to be in lock step with them, but if everyone that owned a gun was a member they would be the biggest voting block in this Country. And that is the only thing that matters on Capital Hill...those guys are only concerned about staying in power. If we were as big as we should be, they would not dare cross us by proposing unconstitutional bills. Freedom is one election cycle away. Always.
 
I am a Patron life member of the NRA. As another member here said , without the NRA we would not have our gun rights today. NRA has the numbers , through membership , that the other gun rights groups just don't have.

Yes the NRA hits members up to donate or upgrade their membership status. All of the other groups do the same.
 
NRA is a big animal. I need them to maintain my civilian and LEO instructor certifications and have received some first rate instructor training through the program over the years. I don't pay much attention to the political side of the outfit and ignore the panhandling
 
Welcome to the fold, Lamps3! The NRA is currently being changed into what most of us would like it to be. I think we almost lost it, but the people we have running things now are getting things back on track.
 
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