I support the NRA. Not supporting them because of their inefficient fund raising is a cop out IMO. If you truly feel that way then you shouldn’t vote for any election candidate.......

mickeyhft, have you considered the rights we have already lost?

Anti-gun politicians mention 1 name above all others when it comes to obstacles in there way of making sheep of us. That name is NRA.

I donate to the Second Amendment Foundation. I no longer want anything to do with the NRA.

I joined the NRA in 2000, was promised a baseball cap (being bald, that is what I wanted) and never received it. For my 5 year membership, they sent me piles of garbage I didn't want or need (2 of the same video, 4 silver bullets, stickers, and other promotional goodies, but never the baseball cap), probably 2 reams' worth of paper asking me to extend my membership starting, no kidding, starting within a month of signing up for 5 years, and were always keeping me up to speed with current events such as critical legislation about 3 weeks after it made news and a couple of times after it had been voted on by Congress.

I honestly would not be surprised if they spent 1/2 the money or more that I paid for joining in trying to entice me to extend my membership. When I contacted them and asked that they stop sending me stuff, they politely explained that such matters were outsourced to another company and it might take a while for them to make that happen. It never happened.

I understand that the NRA fights (when convenient) for our rights. I also understand based on my experience with them that they spend a tremendous amount of money, my money, on trying to get me to give them more money.

As it turns out, my membership money doesn't go toward legislative efforts. Apparently, it can't. You have to make other donations to pay for lobbying to fight for our rights. Maybe had I known that to start with, I would have just given them a donation for that purpose and not actually joined. My money would have been better spend.

mickeyhft, have you considered the rights we have already lost?

Anti-gun politicians mention 1 name above all others when it comes to obstacles in there way of making sheep of us. That name is NRA.

As someone who has made a living that involves guns for most of my entire life, I am aware of absolutely zero gun rights that I have lost. Maybe others have, and in my awareness that is probably good.

I'm not a sheep and never will be, I'm sorry you are so afraid you might become or have become one. I mean we aren't going to solve this debate here, and really I don't believe there is one. And again, I want to remind you, I have personally sold hundreds of guns to hundreds of people back in retail sales decades ago. So it might be hard to understand someone who knows what they are talking about from the inside that isn't freaking out and never has about gun laws. Anyway....

It has been said 2nd amendment rights are going away slowly. That is with many donated dollars going to the NRA, so they are losing the battle? Perhaps we need the NRA without Wayne and his method of operation.

As someone who has made a living that involves guns for most of my entire life, I am aware of absolutely zero gun rights that I have lost.

Did you know you used to be able to legally buy and sell full auto rifles same as any bolt gun today? You've lost that right.
Did you know prior to the Brady Bill you could buy a firearm without the documentation required today? You've lost that right.
Did you know from 1994 to 2004 certain popular rifles were illegal to buy? For a time, you had lost that right.
Anyone who thinks our rights are not being chipped away slowly is not willing to accept the truth, in my opinion.

"The enemy of your enemy is your friend"

I'm not going to hurl any rocks, but I will say this:
I agree in many ways we're much better off now (2A wise) than we were years ago. However, how much of that is because of the efforts of the NRA over the years? We will probably never really know where we would be without their efforts, but I suspect we wouldn't be too happy about it. No doubt there are a lot of greedy douchebags in the organization, but I'll take that over the alternative.