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NRA membership dues mainly cover the magazine subscription. And they are prohibited from using dues for political purposes. Therefore, they have to ask for donations to fund operations and political lobbying efforts.

If you don’t care to receive the mailings, you can call them to opt out or just toss them in the trash. I hate to see people abandon the NRA because they are peeved about the mailings. Our political enemies spend millions to lobby for gun bans, plus they get millions more in free advertising from the media. If gun owners won’t pony up to defend their freedoms, who will?

Yes, the NRA is not perfect and sometimes is not as agressive as I’d like. But they are recognized by all sides as the most powerful, most effective, amd most trusted and truthful of any civil rights/political lobbying group. The other pro-gun groups combined probably have about 1/100 the clout of the NRA.

Don’t forget that in addition to the political side of things, the NRA provides many types of training for citizens, law enforcement and the military. They sponsor and sanction competitions, matches and clinics of all types. They provide guidance for new range development. They have outreach programs to introduce women and young people to the shooting sports. They also have a legal arm that can aid a citizen caught up in a gun law violation.

With Democrat control of Congress and a possible anti-gun Democrat president come 2009, NRA needs all the members it can get.

PS
The BOD is elected. Sometime a dufus like Jackson gets in there. It’s not the end of the world. There is a process to remove someone like that. It works.