I'd heard that the NRA was offering free memberships, and then after making that post I decided I might just post a vanity post about it. So I went to the NRA website and found the same thing that you did - a really well-done website with no mention of free memberships.
Which lead to another page offering one year for $25, two for $50, etc. I would link that page, but it produced an ID number associated with my own access of it --->https://membership.nrahq.org/forms/signup.asp?CampaignID=[number here redacted by me]
Anyone thinking of joining the NRA could still get in under discounted membership dues, it appears.
The multi-tool might be handy to have. But for myself, I'd almost as soon just hand them some money to use for the cause, and let them save the costs, time, and trouble to send a magazine or some other form of wampum.
I'm not sure why I didn't find or notice that the first time. It looks like they are offering with the membership a year's subscription to one of the three magazines.
If they would only limit the "spam" that would coming flooding in, from them, the NRA after joining --- to the electronic version, they could save themselves a ton of money on sending physical junk mail.
Spam is one thing...but endless supplementary requests for donations filling my P.O. Box I simply have no patience for. It's one reason why I dropped membership years ago. Since I wasn't sending extra funds, I didn't want to be just another drag on the resources. And no, I will not agree to offset that, by sending them more money to spend in the efforts of soliciting ever more money from their members. I don't want the magazines, either. Have no place to put them except a trash can (after reading them). What a waste...'cept for the fact they are a bit on the skinny side in the first place, which is good in many ways....
Sorry NRA. You drove me off, years ago.
Now, if they would sign me on, but HOLD THE MAGAZINES and ALL OTHER PHYSICAL mail, then they can "count me in".
Spam away (email versions only) I don't care. Just don't sell the info to other fund-raisers, or any other email mass spammers [string of imagined profanity here].