I know there are many on this board that belong to the NRA

but some here worship the ground they walk on.

Hussein with a belt.

I'll dedicate this video to the NRA:

how about something really mean?

Many hang out in the Gungeon and almost all of them spout conservative talking points. The NRA is essentially a Republican ancillary organization.

shame on any Democrat who would be part of that conservative HACK organization

Gramp was a member way back in the day, even he dropped them in the 80's when they got all crazy.

is like that guy who shot himself in the dick.

and voting for the Nazi Party

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The fact that Obama has NOT taken their guns away as the NRA predicted in 2008 and that he has shown no interest in the issue since then. I hope he acted on his idea and spread it in the Gungeon.

Our RKBA members could do this in addition to contacting the NRA as you say. Acting on both of these ideas just be enough to turn them or local people around.

I hope they will chime in on this thread and show what success they think they had or will have with either approach.

and they're not going to give that up anytime soon. The NRA's 'dire warnings' that President Obama is going to take away their guns have been a boon for business. Gun owners are thrilled that so many dipshits believe what the NRA is saying.

No cause to get himself in trouble, just sort of a 'aw, shucks,' kind of talk, maybe.

and am willing to admit to membership.

I do disagree with much of their political stance and let them know that every time the NRA-ILA asks for money. My counselor (Instructor Trainer) has the same opinion and voices it at every session. Much of the NRA membership has much more moderate views, but has been too apathetic to vote out the current leadership.

I also participate on several gun boards of moderate to right leanings. The majority, while not big Obama fans, agree he has done nothing to promote gun control and do not buy into the NRA scaremongering either. Word seems to be spreading that when it comes to guns, 'better the devil you know' than taking a chance on "I'm a hunter too" Romney.

I believe the NRA is talking in the wind and most gun owners do not consider this election a crisis for the 2A

to the fact that Obama has not even mentioned gun control is "he's waiting until his second term." It's enough to make a person scream. You can't reason with the unreasonable.

Can I claim a senior moment mulligan?

Just a guess.

to see more Democrats arming themselves. If the repubs think they can walk around the capitol with firearms draped all over them when a Democrat resides in the White House, I think we should return the gesture if they ever elect another president. We can arm ourselves during a Washington protest just the same way they did and show them it works both ways.

Fuck that.

WTF are you talking about?

a perfectly valid means of controlling the organization, and through that, the conversation. How much do you give to the DCCC every year? Have they ever even come close to accomplishing anything resembling sanity in the area of firearms legislation?

NRA annual dues are still $35 p/yr.

Ain't gonna happen, no matter how many "liberals" join.

choose the Executive Vice President who serves as the CEO. That's Wayne LaCrazy guy.

How many members in the Democratic National Party?

And if as you fear, they refuse the results of the vote, they loose their 501(c)(4) tax exempt status. But hey why would anyone actually do something when just bitching about it is so much more productive.

on NRA. Why don't you start a membership revolt to remove LaCrazy, Norquist, Bolton, Nugent, North, etc. See how far you get.

have to be that way.

Just like the republican party of the 80's, the insane & the stupid moved in and, instead of fighting them, most of the people that wanted the organization to remain the good thing that it was just left. And there isn't even an equivalent to the Democratic Party, so there's nothing to do. I remember when Nugent was reviled in the NRA because he was an avid bow hunter and dissed firearms every time he opened his mouth. Now all is forgotten and that asshole is on the Board.

will be the last bastion of what Todd Snider called: " Conservative Christian, right wing Republican, straight, white, American males, Soul savin’, flag wavin’, Rush lovin’, land pavin’ personal friends to the Quayles, Quite diligently workin’ so hard to keep the free reins of this Democracy From tree huggin’, peace lovin’, pot smokin’, barefootin’ folk-singin’ hippies like me."

As long as the most powerful lobby in DC is run by this crowd, we'll never see any kind of controls, regulations, taxes, nothing. Nobody in DC is going to go up against them in any meaningful way. We'll have the half-dozen window dressing reps to keep the anti-gun contingent in line, but the carnage will just continue.

If NRA were open to change, they'd try to attract more "liberals." Their prime target is the much bigger right wing population that is into guns, bigotry, intimidation, and other right wing pursuits. You'd be better off starting a Liberal Gun Association -- but I think your membership will be limited.

Good luck.

You're the loser in that argument. And you always will be.

while "our side" accomplishes less and less.

I have severe doubts that you and I are on the same side as to this issue........

within my lifetime.

How many real members do they have now?

When I see the tiny crowds for Romney I don't think they are really functioning.
The former Tea Party member, IMO, are paid operatives.
Oops, forgot to mention Mrs. Clarence Thomas -- however, she would be in the 1% and probably pays poor people with no jobs and on Medicare to support RMoney.

Follow the Money, follow the money.

Now, the 1 % are really the Tea Party and they just say their "base" supports them doing these dirty deeds.

The NRA revamped their rules so as to protect Lapierre and prevent such a take over.

We have a better chance at single payer health care...

Thanks for answering though.

pretty good for them and as a bonus they have been able to pretty much stifle the liberal and progressives and block and water down liberal and progressive legislation.

You can even be a faux Dem and get the POTUS to campaign for you!

for anything. Talk about a penile extension, that club fits the bill.

National Restaurant Association, but I'm no longer in or associated with the food industry

I am a life long shooting enthusiast, have concealed carry permits and used to hold a ATF license to deal.

The NRA sucks, always has and always will.. they do nothing unless it will bring in more money,typical rethug mentality.

But I wouldn't give the NRA a nickel.

Bake

I cut my card up, and sent it back to them, back in the 80s....I've moved since then, that's probably why I no longer hear from them....Good Riddance!!

as long as the guns are being made and sold the NRA could care less about the destruction that it causes.

The guns must flow!

They use hate, lies and fear to keep the nutters in line.

Never renewed my membership and won't until they kick out all the right wing loonies.

and quit about the same time I realized my political leanings took a left turn at 21.

"kinder, gentler" KuKluxKlan.

This song goes out to them....

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we both drop out around the time when they started going hard right politically.

The "Three Strikes" laws have not one gods damned thing to do with firearms. Worse yet, they wrote** the California law then successfully sued the State of California for not enforcing it against a first offender. Because, contrary to what everybody believed when they were cheering it, the laws not about repeat offenders. Rather it was written by the NRA to apply to anyone who committed three qualifying crimes. If your first offense included three qualifying criminal acts (e.g. "assault with a deadly weapon", "assault with a firearm", "armed robbery" - one incident with three different crimes attached), you got life without parole.

About that same time the OKC bombing occurred. Next issue of American Rifleman contained a lengthy "don't blame us" article by Wayne LaPierre in which he denied the NRA promoting wild eyed conspiracy theories. That exact same issue also contained a Neal Knox article on UN Black Helicopters rounding up all the citizens of a Chicago suburb in a practice raid as the UN was readying to take over the United States.

** Someone is almost certain to respond "the NRA can't write laws; the legislature has to do that". Actually, a lot of legislatures have no legal training and have people on staff to write the laws for them. And, yes, sometimes even an outside organization such as ALEC or the NRA will write a law and ask friendly legislatures to introduce it. Usually, they make changes, but sometimes they present verbatim.