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I'll just let the NRA tell you about themselves.

BTW, the NRA invented the phrase "workable gun laws", and "Sporting purposes of firearms". The Brady Campaign did not invent those phrases.

When my friend's like-new .44 magnum Colt Anaconda was stolen in a home burglary he notified NRA and filed a claim on the gun loss insurance that comes with membership in that org. NRA sent him a $400 check but the Anaconda, which was discontinued by Colt a couple of decades ago and is now a collector's item, was worth over $2000 according to a gun collector handbook. He argued with NRA for months and they finally raised their offer to $600. Rather than spend money on a lawyer to fight for a fair settlement my friend finally accepted the $600 and then canceled his NRA membership.

I didn't renew my NRA membership when it expired a couple of years ago and I don't intend to rejoin unless it returns to what it was in the early 1960s when I first joined. NRA served a good purpose back in those days, but somewhere along the way it has changed a lot and no longer represents what most gun owners want most of all. And that is to simply have our 2nd Amendment rights honored and safeguarded by the courts and lawmakers at every level of government, nothing more, nothing less.

Good get on the NRA article.

Looks like old Sen. Dodd of Connecticut eventually got everything he wanted. Now, how'd that happen?

What this article writer at NRA did not realize is that now gun owners (even then) were up against liberals, i.e. statists, whose ideology cannot tolerate a free, armed people, and whose methodology is relentless and pitiless with respect to the damage they do to people's rights and to the concept of liberty. They're all about power, even dystopian power in the case of "Progs" (Stalinists) who associate with other grabbers. They just don't care about people and their liberties and their problems.

Having been attacked many times by militantly ignorant FR mouth breathers for my frequent criticism of the NRA as a bunch of sell outs I greatly appreciate your positng these condemnations of the NRA from their own mouths

I also remember a position paper published by the NRA in the 1980s that emphatically stated that they considered the United Nations NOT to be any sort of threat to the 2nd Amendment. I'll try and dig that one up. Could have knocked me over with a feather at that moment. But by that time I was a member of JBS and well read in their library so I knew the tremendous threat posed by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg group.