Think about it. Not one of the FR GOA members have ever been able to explain what they have actually accomplished in all the years I have been on FR. No one. The only thing I have ever noticed they do is sell novelties and t-shirts. Sending money to the GOA for occasional emails that mention the NRA half a dozen times isn't getting your monies worth.
GOA's most recent accomplishment is bringing to light the back room deal the NRA made with the democRATS to get HR 2640 passed in the house! I'd say that's pretty big. There are a lot of us NRA members that aren't happy with that! I'm tired of the NRA compromising away my RIGHTS. If the leadership had any balls at all they could help to roll back the unconstitutional infringements on our gun rights instead of cozying up to the communist/socialist/leftist gun grabbers.
NRA Bylaws
Article II
Purposes and Objectives, Section 1
The purposes and objectives of the National Rifle Association are:
1. To protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, especially with reference to the inalienable right of the individual American citizen guaranteed by such Constitution to acquire, possess, collect, exhibit, transport, carry, transfer ownership of, and enjoy the right to use firearms, in order that the people may always be in a position to exercise their legitimate individual rights of self-preservation and defense of family, person, and property, as well as to serve effectively in the appropriate militia for the common defense of the Republic and the individual liberty of its citizens;