2nd Amendment Foundation, Gun Owners of America to name a few. Such organizations used to be flyweights, now THEY take the lead in lawsuits and campaigns and the NRA belatedly tags along.
Also look for your statewide organization. I realize they can’t all be as effective or proactive as my own Virginia Citizens Defense League.
NRA held the line for decades and I’ll always be grateful, but they refuse to acknowledge that the dems have purged all their conservative elements years ago. There are no more pro-gun democrats anymore than pro-life democrats. As with Obamacare, the stimulus and Dodd-Frank; when push comes to shove they will ALL obediently do what the leadership orders.
I don’t know if the NRA has been taken over by leftists and careerists but their time is clearly over.
They also refuse to recognize that any vote for a rat is a vote for an anti-2A agenda/platform.
Not entirely true. Especially in New Orleans, after the post Katrina atrocities against gunowners. Not only did NRA pull the trigger on a lawsuit against Nagin's chocolate version of Hell but they pushed through legislation (quickly modeled by other states) that would prevent any recurrence in the next disaster's aftermath. The critical thing you have to look at is ratio of money disbursements inside the organization as it relates to overhead versus that which actually is used to further the "cause." I used to give money to both SAF and CCRKBA until I discovered that 98% of donations go to infrastructure and the rest to "the cause." I think that the best (forgive me) "bang for the Buck" is JPFO and I'm not even jewish! Yet even that group can't match the clout in political circles that NRA can and does project. Yet, NRA is a beast with flaws. I remember back in the 1980s when they made a public statement that they did not consider the UN a threat to US gun rights or the 2nd Amendment. That changed later on and they even won NGO (Non Govermental Organization) status in the UN itself. With that, they can literally ride herd on antigun moves the organization may be pushing. But IMHO, it took them too long to realize the danger presented by the UN. If you think that either GOA or SAF have a snowball's chance in HELL of obtaining the fear status that the NRA holds over all politicians and can do it anytime in your lifetime, you're dreaming. Those groups really are still flyweights in comparison to NRA.