[ExSoldier]

This article is why I have been saying that if you want to protect your 2A rights, it is better to support and send money to the NRA and other gun rights orgs than buy an Armalite AR-10.

Why not do both? In buying the gun you are stimulating the economy and putting folks back to work. Of course as much as 90% of the money donated to these organizations goes to infrastructure support rather than directly to the lobbyists. The donations (at least in the case of SAF and CCRKBA) go to pay salaries, employ secretaries and assistants and the like. That's one huge reason these groups aren't as big as NRA nor are they as efficient.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Why not do both?"

Absolutely. You can never have enough freedom guns. What I'm saying is that if you buy your AR-10, but can't afford the $35 (only $25 with a lot of the specials going on) to join the NRA then IMO your priorities are wrong. By supporting the NRA and other gun rights orgs that speak for us, we keep the option of buying that AR-10 for the future.

So many people talk about Molon Labe and I'm going out shooting when they come for my guns. It doesn't have to come to that. Let's fight these people within the framework of the current government first before it comes to a shootout with the ATF. There are something like 180 million gun owners (whatever the number), there should be at least that many members in the NRA.