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NRA annoyances. Nothing changes with these people!
Ram Ringer:
ooBuck,
If you don't want all of the mail from them all it takes is one phone call to NRA HQ to tell them you don't want all the mail and it will stop.
NE Bull:
--- Quote from: Ram Ringer on March 11, 2011, 06:45:35 AM ---ooBuck,
If you don't want all of the mail from them all it takes is one phone call to NRA HQ to tell them you don't want all the mail and it will stop.
--- End quote ---
Ditto, one of the fellas I talked to at the Cabelas event was dicussing that. They haven't hit me too bad yet, I'm just still waiting for my duffle bag from last year!
FarmerRick:
I've been a life member since 2001.
I get a letter from them about 5 or 6 times a year. Pretty easy to just throw it away if I don't want to see what's inside.
While it may seem a bit wasteful, it's not that bothersome to me. The return on the investment must work out to an advantage, otherwise they wouldn't do it.
Wesley D:
While there are a handful of effective national-level activist organizations, I like the Second Amendment Foundation because money contributed to them goes to fight our battles in the courtroom... you've heard of Heller, McDonald, and Heller2 right? Send your thank yous to SAF for taking up those legal battles.
However, there are also some growing state-level organizations that do great work. In fact, we're on one of those organization's forums right now! Forum and website hosting costs money, as does sending watchdog announcements and calls to action on bills currently in our Nebraska legislature. I've found the NFOA forum to be the most useful state-level tool for tracking the legislation affecting my rights - and that's why I started donating money to the NFOA. Instead of sending that second donation to a national-level organization, perhaps consider a grassroots organization in your own backyard. Here's a link to the NFOA Donation Page. Just sayin.
</infomercial> (I don't want to be accused of being as pestering as a certain national-level organization...) ;D
Hardwood83:
--- Quote from: FarmerRick on March 11, 2011, 09:52:42 AM ---I've been a life member since 2001.
I get a letter from them about 5 or 6 times a year. Pretty easy to just throw it away if I don't want to see what's inside.
While it may seem a bit wasteful, it's not that bothersome to me. The return on the investment must work out to an advantage, otherwise they wouldn't do it.
--- End quote ---
I am a NRA Life & Endowment member and Rick's post is closer to my experience, then yours. Sorry you've had an aggravating experience with the NRA. I have no idea why they would send you more then 7 solicitations a month- when I, who actually have given them a lot of money- would get a fraction of that. It certainly is inefficient. There is a means of 'opting out' of solicitations but I've never been inspired to take it.
As to your other issues, unfortunately what makes the NRA (or any other lobbyist) effective is membership size & money. That is why the NRA is THE gun lobby, while other great organizations like SAF, CCKRKBA, GOA, JFPFO, etc are niche groups known only to the hardcore activists (like us). They are more ideologically pure and consistent, perhaps, then the NRA, but completely ineffective on the national stage. No one cares what Larry Pratt has to say while Wayne LaPierre is the face of Gun Owners. Also, we expect the NRA to work for us in Congress, Federal Bureaucracies, Courts, and in all 50 states but never ask for any $$? That isn't realistic. No doubt the NRA could do many things better and I agree there are some priorities that need rearranging but the very reason you love the SAF (they never ask you for $$) is why they are insignificant. I hope all these other groups grow and put pressure on both legislators & the NRA to improve.... anyway several others issues you've raised, but the gist is I think ,while you have a couple of valid points, the NRA isn't nearly as bad as you indicate.
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