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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.
 
Just join and never give them another dime. We need the numbers, don't you get it? Donate to whom you believe in more, but just join so we have the voting block we can show Capital Hill. In 2018 we had like 5.5 Million Voters. Now we are down to like 3.9 Million. They think we, and by gun owners that is a we, are losing our resolve. They think we are weak, they will strike. I am not in lock step with them. But they are the biggest club so we need to make it bigger. If you can't understand that, and open your dusty wallet to join, well you will tell your grandchildren about all the fun toys you used to have, but you were too lazy/cheap to join a group that would fight for your right to keep them so now you only have shotguns like England. And they are coming to get those too, just like England. And they got them! Rant over. Not going to debate this. I am right and you are wrong. Support the other groups, they are better in line with our values, but they DON'T have the numbers to get the attention of Capital Hill that the NRA does. So shut up and join.
 
Winchester67 said:
Just join and never give them another dime. We need the numbers, don't you get it? Donate to whom you believe in more, but just join so we have the voting block we can show Capital Hill. In 2018 we had like 5.5 Million Voters. Now we are down to like 3.9 Million. They think we, and by gun owners that is a we, are losing our resolve. They think we are weak, they will strike. I am not in lock step with them. But they are the biggest club so we need to make it bigger. If you can't understand that, and open your dusty wallet to join, well you will tell your grandchildren about all the fun toys you used to have, but you were too lazy/cheap to join a group that would fight for your right to keep them so now you only have shotguns like England. And they are coming to get those too, just like England. And they got them! Rant over. Not going to debate this. I am right and you are wrong. Support the other groups, they are better in line with our values, but they DON'T have the numbers to get the attention of Capital Hill that the NRA does. So shut up and join.
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Unforetunately, you are correct.
The political landscape we live in
 
Like others here, I get requests for money pretty regularly from both NRA and Gun Owners of America (GOA). Always a crisis. I ignore them. GOA is pretty straightforward and just asks for money. NRA constantly tries to entice me with (likely) foreign made junk (knives, bags, binoculars, etc.).

I funneled a lot of money to the NRA 8-10 years ago, working my way up to “Benefactor” member.

  • Life Member
  • Endowment Member ($1,000 as of a prior offering)
  • Patron Member ($1,500 as of a prior offering)
  • Benefactor Member (the highest, often an upgrade from Patron for an additional fee)
Long after I did all that, I continually received invitations to join the various membership levels, although I’d completed them all. It was as if no one at the NRA tracked anything. That seems to have finally stopped after the recent leadership changes - I even got a donation solicitation encouraging me as a “Benefactor” to donate more money.

Every once in a while I even did the $250 a year “Golden Eagles” membership as well, thinking all along I was helping with the goal of advancing 2A rights. Then I learned I was pretty much buying fancy suits for the previous director and paying for luxuries for him and other members. Quite disappointed to say the least.

It seems here recently they (NRA) are making a concerted effort to get back on track, so 🤞, and I do think a lot of the NRA leadership scammers are gone.

I still wonder about fundraising when they ask me for money with one hand and want to give me stuff with the other - I’m sure they get that junk cheap, but I’m also sure it’s not free. I also bristle about the amount of snail mail solicitations I receive from both agencies. If they have the membership numbers they claim, they are spending a fortune on postage in the hopes of getting a few dollars in donations back - not to mention, I’m guessing most members have e-mail addresses.

If I ever felt the need to donate to a 2A promoting organization, it would be GOA - at least until I see the NRA start being directly involved in positive 2A changes in National legislation.
 
Just a tangential note: I have my FPC membership set up for monthly recurring. And a benefit of that, right now, is that it's not illegal for me to carry in a post office. FPC and SAF were part of this ruling... NRA was not.

www.concealedcarry.com

Federal Judge Rules Post Office Gun Ban Unconstitutional — But Not For Everyone » Concealed Carry Inc

On or about late September 2025, U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor of the Northern District of Texas held that the government’s blanket ban on firearms at
www.concealedcarry.com www.concealedcarry.com
 
I will refrain from commenting on the NRA position today, I left them after 30+ years of membership, there are other pro 2nd amendment organizations out there, I belong to the CCRKBA, very good alternative
 
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