Well here's another fine kettle of fish I've gotten myself in to!

When I actually began to shoot and enjoy owning handguns way back in 1979/1980, I had no ideas what or who was the NRA. Once I found out, I joined up. I was a student in seminary. Money was tight. But, I joined and as soon as possible, began payments on a life membership. I've been a life member for about 30 years. I've been proud of what the NRA has been able to do for our sport and our country.

It is with surprise and disappointment that I read of your less than positive experience as a member of the NRA. I regret that you have been disappointed. I do not think this would be typical of the broad experience of those who are members of the NRA. Hopefully if you in the future choose to renew membership with the NRA you will not experience a repeat of what has led you to discontinue your membership. Sincerely. brucev.
 
When it comes to shooting sports, training, education, etc, the NRA is outstanding.
However, the ILA has been pissing me off for years. They've gotten so wrapped up in playing the political game that they've lost sight of the goal. They speak of strength, yet only seem to want to deal and compromise. Losing the fight a little bit at a time.
The reason they keep begging for money is because we have the best government money can buy and politicians don't come cheap. :mad:

Its time to go back to Cincinnati.
 
Been a Jr. member since 10. Now Life Endowment.
If you contact them, polite phone is best and ask to be removed from solicitations and additional fund-raising they will comply and the calls, e-mails and mailings will cease.

It's not rocket surgery, nor brain science. Be polite and they will be too.
 
the NRA is our big gun that defends our common interest.

any of the mail I receive, from the NRA or multiple others, that I don't wish to keep goes directly into the recycling bin. its not a difficult or time consuming process.

Join, Contribute, Support the NRA...........there IS strength in numbers.....
 
People who badger me for money because their computer says so get short shrift from me. I'm not fussed what organization it is.
 
Goes without saying.......

Walkin' Jack said:
Nice catch Ringo. :) I wondered if any one would snap to my Laurel and Hardy reference. If I'd had on a tie I'd have given it a little twiddle and said, "Why don't you do something to help me?" :D
Click to expand...


SURE we caught that. You think we are a bunch of whipper snappers???:p
 
I'm sorry many of you are having issues with the NRA. I did want to address the issue of advertisements and solicitations that you are receiving. I am a Life Member, and I receive my monthly magazine, however, I receive NO solicitations or other mail from the NRA.

The reason that I don't receive the mailers, is that I opted out and it was easy. If you go to the NRA website, click on member services and then under the privacy policy there is a section on control of personal information. You may OPT OUT by calling 1 800 672-3888 or consider 3 other options. I called the telephone number a while back and they took me off the solicitation list, and so far it has worked.
 
Last edited:
Walkin' Jack, Have you contacted your NRA Regional Rep.? They are listed in your magazine.
I got tired of phone calls and contacted mine requesting no more calls and they ended. I'll bet the Rep. could help with your problem.
 
Maybe Wayne needs a raise.:D



Between 2008 and 2010, the NRA paid LaPierre compensation in an amount ranging from $948,858 and $1,263,101 per year.

Base Salary: $845,469

Other Compensation: $125,615

I also have been an NRA member for many years and, in general, support most of what they do. Now I never agreed with them on who they suggested to vote for. I guess I opted out of the extra fund stuff as I don't get any, I also don't get my magazine every month but that could be the mail person reading it.:eek:
 
rimfired said:
If you contact them, polite phone is best and ask to be removed from solicitations and additional fund-raising they will comply and the calls, e-mails and mailings will cease.
Click to expand...

This was not my experience. I always start out being polite, and I almost always remain polite but become more serious as the situation demands. I made multiple contacts, in various ways, before the deluge of mail and contacts ceased. It shouldn't have taken more than one.
 
When I receive an envelope from them asking for money, I just
tear it up and toss it in the trash can. Of course, the envelope
I got from them today contained my new NRA membership
card! I took it out, and tore up the envelope and the rest of
the contents. The membership went into my wallet. :D

I believe they do good work in keeping the liberal progressives
from doing away with the 2nd. Amendment.
 
By way of clarification I'm not quitting the NRA. I'm getting kicked out. I have tried for 3 months to get the problem resolved. Phone calls, e-mails, hand written letters via snail mail. No effort was made on their part to resolve the situation. All they did was continue to send me bills and threaten me....and sermonize how important my membership was to them.

I dislike loosing my NRA membership but all my wasted time and effort has left a bad taste in my mouth and I'm ready to put it all behind me.
Onward and upward......
 
Walkin' Jack said:
I have just PMed Lee and asked him to remove the NRA icon from my posts. It's a long sad story and I'll spare y'all the gory details but I explained it to Lee in some detail. I knew some of y'all would notice that I no longer had the NRA icon over my posts and wonder what was going on.

In a nut shell, they claim I am over due to renew my membership. But my membership card has an expiration date of Jan, 2017. I got conformation on that date from a lady I spoke with at their main number. They have been pushy, rude, unresponsive to my emails, hand written letters and calls.

Today I got a "final notice" to pay up or my membership would be "suspended". Things are very tight right now and I do not have any extra money and I refuse to send them another dime until Jan, 2017.

I still believe in the NRA and encourage everyone to join and/or continue their membership. I don't want to lose my membership But I just got into this mess and I don't know how it happened and evidently there is nothing to be done about it so.....stick a fork in me brothers, I'm done. :confused: :mad:
Click to expand...

I have read several threads/posts here in the short time I have been a member complaining about problems with the NRA and fundrasing tactics. I can't speak to the NRA, but I do know that many organizations have gone to third-party, professional solicitation companies that are paid a percentage of what they collect. This is what leads to the abuses because these companies don't get paid if they don't collect. So you really aren't dealing with a salaried staff person invested in the organization or it's purpose--he or she calls under the auspices of the NRA one day, the United Way the next, ACLU the next week.

I had this exact problem with a State Trooper's Association recently. They were literally ringing my phone off the hook (I still have a landline--none of the posts I have seen have mentioned if these calls are coming to landline phones, I suspect so. I have read with the declining number of landlines, that these calls are becoming increasingly focused on the landline holders left). I am on the state and national Do Not Call Registry, so I should not have been getting the calls. I simply called the state police, got the association president's number and called him to put a stop to the calls. He said they started using the professional fundraiser because the felt every dollar they collected was a dollar they did not have before--with no consideration that the fundraisers were taking 40 or 50% off the top. Not to mention the loss of good will from infuriating those who have helped your organization in the past.

I would bet the NRA is using one of these groups working on a percentage of collections and that is what is generating all the hard-core calling I have seen so many complain about in my short time here. I am not being critical of the NRA for so acting--if that is indeed what is going on, I am simply guessing--but I do thing using these organizations engender a lot of bad blood.
 
Will this go on your record? To start with I am a member of the NRA yet I never had the desire to post the icon on my headings or whatever. For the most part I never buy caps and shirts advertising someones products. Maybe I do have a old Indian MC logo shirt and a John Deere cap. I dont have any bumper stickers or tatoos. When I was a lot younger I probley had the bumper stickers etc. I also was more of a sucker and would politely listen to phone call solicitors etc. Not anymore. You do get grouchier as you age. Maybe a little wiser too. Ever notice how activists are always young? The older I got I found out I aint going to save the world and solicitors are out of luck with me.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

RM Vivas
NYPD - M&P #S812894 - How I Research The NYPD Guns
2
Replies
22
Views
2K
dobegrant
dobegrant
ddeanjohnson
For Sale WTS: 17 guns -- all offers respectfully considered -- collection liquidation
2
Replies
34
Views
20K
TLflag
T
ddeanjohnson
  • Locked
WITHDRAWN -- Collection reduction: 40 guns (15 S&W + Colts, etc.)
2
Replies
26
Views
11K
ddeanjohnson
ddeanjohnson
ddeanjohnson
  • Locked
WITHDRAWN. WTS: Collector downsizing-- 26 collector handguns
Replies
10
Views
7K
ddeanjohnson
ddeanjohnson
the ringo kid
  • Locked
Here's the scoop getting you LTC in Texas.
2 3 4
Replies
61
Views
7K
Tinhack
Tinhack

Latest posts

Back
Top