What are you talking about? The NRA has cored victory after victory after victory. What has the GOA done? The NRA has 4.2 million members. You won't be missed.
Great recruting tool! Many of us are getting the message loud and clear too. After 25 or more years, my check ain't in the mail.
Just like Wayne La Pierre supported Democrat candidates like Sen. Harry Reid ...
This is exactly why I am letting my present NRA membership lapse in a few days (March 31, 2011).
By supporting Reid and other democrats, La Pierre helped in allowing the U.S. Senate to remain in democrat hands. If you have forgotten, it is the U.S. Senate that confirms all federal judges so from my point of view this is akin to shooting oneself in the foot. Sayonara NRA.
As for your comment to another poster, "You won't be missed", please explain for me then why the repeated nightly phone calls as to renewing my NRA membership? And, what about the deluge of renewal mailings, which thankfully, have become less frequent?
The NRA is not lily white when it comes to the 2nd amendment. The 1968 gun control act was created by National Shooting Sports Foundation member companies with help from the NRA. It is documented and you will have to dig to find it. The NSSF members effectively shut off the imported and cheap weapons to make the domestic market their own and the NRA jumped right on board. The Heller case recently was very telling, the NRA Legal team actually did not support the case till the last minute, they even went out of there way to bad mouth the Heller legal team on many ocassions at several public venues while to case was in pre-trial and at the begining of the trial. The amicus brief by the NRA actaully is not part of the court records since it was sent late, just a PR stunt by the NRA when they realized the Heller case could be ruled in favor of the 2nd Amendment. Those are pesky FACTS.
No surprise here with this sh*tweed Keene at NRA throttles. The NRA is about creating the myth of protecting you, the taxpayer/citizen while making sure little is really done, so the funding to NRA keeps on going to them. The Heller decision was a major threat to this little game. THINK LARGE LABOR UNIONs and what they actually do for the members, ie not alot but they sure do have large slush funds and enjoy the big life in DC while doing very little. Additionally, the NSSF and SAAMI do not want a broad interpretation of the 2nd Amendment either. They just want to protect their markets. How do you think the 922c Commerce ruling came about that blocks barrels and internal parts from being imported came from? NSSF Lawyers with NRA Lawyers being quiet “suggested” this to a Federal Judge and Commerce Department got a “favorable” ruling. Favorable for who? Again, pesky facts....
I have been in the firearms industry for a long time and I can tell you the NSSF and NRA only care about what the SAAMI voting members want, not the 2nd Amendment or you the average gun owner, to them you are a source of revenue and that is all they care about.
Again you entirely missed the point.
I am not a GOA member, you simply bring in a straw man to change the conversation. You brought up the GOA, not me.
The NRA has been behind every major piece of gun control legislation since they began. Don’t take my word for it.
“The National Rifle Association has been in support of workable, enforceable gun control legislation since its very inception in 1871.” —NRA Executive Vice President Franklin L. Orth, NRA’s American Rifleman Magazine, March 1968, P. 22
The NRA currently exists to provide it’s leadership with million dollar salaries and benefits.
Meanwhile the local gun grunts on the ground in state capitals around the country do the hard work.