Phone calls from the NRA???

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This morning I got a call from a guy who said he was from the NRA. He said there were two bills in Congress, one that was going to bring back 'Clinton Era Assault Weapons bans' and that they needed to 'Stop them before they passed'. The guy sounded a little like a 'pro' phone solicitor, but not quite.

Is this the latest scam or has the NRA started soliciting funds by phone?
 
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I regularly get calls which show as "NRA" on the caller ID. I just let these go to voicemail.

I also regularly get NRA text messages (from "Wayne") - "ALERT", "FINAL REMINDER" and "High Priority Message" - to solicit membership and other "offers" (knife set and such); 11 of these messages just in August and September. I just renewed a 5-year membership earlier this year.

At least the snail mail solicitations have stopped...for the time being anyhow....
 
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I was at work one afternoon when my desk phone rang. I answered the phone and it was the NRA calling me at work to solicit funds. I don't have the slightest idea how they got that phone number. I'm not even sure that I knew that phone number because we were issued a company phone and anytime I had to call work that was the number I called.

So I told the solicitor to put me on the Do Not Call list. I don't remember the whole conversation but a very distinctly remembered him telling me that in order to get that number off their list I would have to go to every phone on every desk in the building and call the NRA from each of them and have each individual phone put on the Do Not Call list.

I think my NRA membership expired 20 years ago and we still get mail from them.

My cheap, walmart, Family Mobile Samsung Galaxy has a feature on it so that if somebody calls me and it's not my wife, my sister-in-law or my daughter my phone doesn't even ring it goes straight voicemail.

If my cheap phone will do that I'm sure the more expensive phones that some of you guys carry will also do it
 
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I feel......

I used to get the occasional NRA solicitation phone call, but I do not remember the last time. I normally contribute $100 every year by regular mail. I feel that is reasonable.

I feel that my dues are reasonable.:D

And if my phone says 'scam' I don't answer it, but if a number pops up that I don't recognize it may still be a legitimate call so sometimes I have to answer it. Usually if they start in with scam language I just say, "Not interested" and hang up. Usually they are still talking when I hang up the phone.
 
Regardless of the nature of the telephone solicitation, they will call you relentlessly until you actually tell them to "stop". I stand behind a lot of their causes and fund raising, but they can really be annoying.
 
Apparently there is a guy that talks and sound like Sam Elliot. he is making a fortune doing political ads for the right leaning candidates at least down here and for asking for donations to charities like "police dogs injured in the line of duty" I suspect the voice guy is making a fortune. I think he has called me once or twice for the NRA.
 
Thank you NRA for doing what you can to fight the good fight, I know it takes funding and a little inconvenience is no big deal to me whether I donate or not.
 
I’ve been getting several calls from “NRA” on my cell phone in the last month or so. I finally answered one the other day and it was legit. It was a fund raising campaign. I also re-enlisted for another year. $40 plus a $10 donation. They already had my card number from my last payment and read the last four digits to me to confirm method of payment.
 
I tell them I will contribute again when the crook, Wayne LaPierre quits and refunds all the money he has squandered over the years.
 
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