Yeah. It means you get to give more money to Harry Reid.
I think you could count on getting more fundraising junk mail from NRA-ILA .......
Once you upgrade to a higher level, then they come back and ask you to upgrade to an even higher level. The only thing I get is more mail begging for more money.
When LaPierre kisses Harry Reid’s butt, they’ll send you a Scratch-n-Sniff.
Gun Owners of America.
I am going to be honest. I have been a Life Member for many years. I also have contributed extra funds until I am blue in the face, and the only thing that I have gotten from it is a jacket, a hat, and a whole lot more requests for more money.
You ask: “Is it worth it?” In one word... NO!
After throwing their support to Harry Reid, it is fair to say that the NRA has been co-opted. This happens quite often when open (or closeted) progressives take the reigns at an organization.
I’m a Life Member and other than getting kudos at the range from the men it’s done nothing much for me.
I don’t join groups, particularly one for guns. That’s one list I don’t need my name on.
I’m a Life Member. No.
NO! A life member for quite some time, they won’t send me the magazines unless I re-up. Sorry Charlie Tuna, not again. s
I am a proud annual-fee NRA member as well as a supporter of the harder-line JPFO and GOA.
But -
Why does the level of “benefit to you” determine how much you give?
Unlike some of the dolts on this thread, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you’re (further) supporting the most effective civil rights, training and shooting sports organization around. Note that I didn’t say the “perfect organization run by unpaid angels that you’ll agree with 100% of the time”.
The NRA has supported every single solitary piece of anti-gun legislation for the past 100 years. Why give such a creature a dime?
In that time I have also written and emailed numerous opinions to my elected reps on the gun issue.
I have the pleasure of knowing that I have personally done more for the pro-firearms movement , along with my contributions to NRA ,than most of the anti-NRA ignoramuses who post on these threads have if they were all put together.
--I also understand that, if in two years the political situation changes to a Republican wipeout , which I think is a distinct possibility, that the only gun organization which will have any clout with Congress whatsoever will be the NRA---
No.
NRA wants permitted, revokeable concealed carry. They want this because they want their trainers to have a monopoly on training classes.
Because they want this (above), it is why they will not fight for people who live in open carry states and have the law harassing them for open carry, they are not for ‘constitutional carry’, meaning no permit to carry either open or concealed, depending on what makes more sense for you to do at any given time and place.
You’ll get free tickets to events at the Annual Meetings. Other than that, I haven’t seen any additional benefits...
Join if you want,,, but never give that bunch more than a year or two. Keep em always begging,,,, they supported far too many socialists last election.
When they proved that they would back Dingy Harry Reid and other RATS, I dropped my regular membership, even though I had an active NRA-Certified Range Officer rating.