NRA membership?
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If you own a firearm or understand their need you should be a member!
If you own a firearm or understand their need you should be a member!
Amen, brother!
sgt.207
Member
Signed my wife and three kids up as new members last week
627 city hunter
Member
Joined last month.
Joewisc
US Veteran
I'm thinking of letting my membership lapse. Can't justify Wayne LaPierre being paid $1.5 million a year. For what? He's the face of the NRA and not a very effective spokesman. Surely, the money could be spent much better on a public relations/ad campaign to persuade people that self-defense is one of the pillars of American freedom.
Did the same thing and will continue.
JaPes
Member
I just added another year to my membership. I'm good to go through 2015
Steve in Vermont
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I considered this also; however, I don't see a "Plan B" in the future. What I do see, and I believe it will be this year, is a change of leadership in the NRA and, with it, better PR.
Joewisc
US Veteran
I thought Chuck Heston (RIP) was a fine rep for the NRA. LaPierre comes across as way too didactic.
tomtheturner
Member
I have heard plenty of reasons not to like the NRA, but in my opinion, they are the best we have to defend our rights.
I just sent in my dues, plus extra.
Best Wishes,
Tom
I just sent in my dues, plus extra.
Best Wishes,
Tom
Big Fred
Member
Well I don't know what didactic is but I realize Wayne may not be the best public speaker. I DO KNOW that the NRA is the best thing we have going to retain our gun rights.
And we need to FULLY SUPPORT the NRA............
Joewisc
US Veteran
di·dac·tic (d-dktk) also di·dac·ti·cal (-t-kl)
adj.
1. Intended to instruct.
2. Morally instructive.
3. Inclined to teach or moralize excessively.
How much do you think the head of the largest and most effective lobbying organization in history should be paid? He has been placed in impossible circumstances in the last few weeks. I agree, it might be time for a change, but your reasoning just doesn't make sense.
Biginge
SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
Boys, dissin Wayne at this time is like gripin about the life ring they just threw you, after two days adrift, is the wrong color and chipped. Come on. The focus is on the issues not the oration skills of a single person. "Divide and conquer" is not that hard to understand.
Great analogy.
madd matt
Member
I agree being a member of the NRA is important. But dont forget to write ( e mail ) your congressmen, senitors, and the president. This could be as equally important to saving our second amendment rites.
italyguy01
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Everyone needs to constantly harass all you congressmen, senators, and the president.
I have been calling and emailing them all, EVERY DAY!
I have been calling and emailing them all, EVERY DAY!
italyguy01
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I really would like to send a nasty nasty nasty email to Senator Feinstein, but would it even do any good? This low life needs to be removed from office.
Squarebutt
Member
"We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately."
-- Benjamin Franklin
This year is going to be a rough one for gun owners. The NRA is the heavyweight in Washington, and the more members we have, the stronger our message. My message to the congresspersons is real simple: "You passed a ban in '94, and we threw 55 of you out of office. With all these new members we can top that." Something about having to go out and work for a living strikes fear in their hearts.
-- Benjamin Franklin
This year is going to be a rough one for gun owners. The NRA is the heavyweight in Washington, and the more members we have, the stronger our message. My message to the congresspersons is real simple: "You passed a ban in '94, and we threw 55 of you out of office. With all these new members we can top that." Something about having to go out and work for a living strikes fear in their hearts.
longslide10
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Well, I'm never going to send in any more dues to the NRA for my membership! Of course, since I bought life memberships for each of my two grandchildren on their first birthdays, I'll have to do the same for any future grandchildren.
Stop looking for reasons not to join. If you're here, reading this, you should already be a member.
Stop looking for reasons not to join. If you're here, reading this, you should already be a member.
Just the way I think!
Only new member I could get in the family was the grandson when I said he could have one of my SS 1911 .45 he had to join the NRA.
That he agreed to....
Pointshoot
Member
$1.5 Mil/year ? You gotta be kidding.
That is ridiculous. A little too fat & happy IMO.
That said, I'm an NRA Life Member. They are the biggest out there & the most visible. Its a good idea to be a member.
I don't think they are the best out there. For that reason I'm also a member of Gun Owners of America
Gun Owners of America
I'm also a member of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (though I'm not Jewish, & you don't have to be ). Those guys are very informed as to what happens to people when they are unarmed by governments
Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership
And no one can claim they are 'paranoid' for citing history.
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Edie
Member
I'm sending $300 Monday to become a Patron Member. I think it's that important and I'll sure take that $1200 discount!
Addition:
A quick Google search got me this quote from Forbes: "As for salaries, fifty-six people in the organization earned more than $100,000 in 2010—and 10 made more than $250,000. Lapierre does not top the list. Kayne B. Robinson, the executive director of general operations does. He was paid just over $1 million. Lapierre was second, pulling in $970,000 in reportable and estimated comp."
Addition:
A quick Google search got me this quote from Forbes: "As for salaries, fifty-six people in the organization earned more than $100,000 in 2010—and 10 made more than $250,000. Lapierre does not top the list. Kayne B. Robinson, the executive director of general operations does. He was paid just over $1 million. Lapierre was second, pulling in $970,000 in reportable and estimated comp."
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