ORIGINAL: Californiadoctor
ORIGINAL: JagMagMan
4 million NRA members out of almost 100 million gun owners, if ONLY half the gun owners were NRA members you would NEVER hear the words "gun ban" again!
The fact that only 4% of gun owners have elected to join the NRA speaks volumes about what kind of an organization the NRA is. If the leadership of the NRA was capable ofeven a minimal amount of introspection they would be asking themselves why in a countryof100 million gun owners and 13 million hunters only 4 million peoplehave become members of the NRA. It is certainly not for lack of trying on the NRA's part; who hasn't recieved invitations in the mail askingthe recipientto join the NRA and warning of dire consequences ifthey do not?Yet after decades of intensive recruiting the NRA has only enrolled a very small percentage of both gun owners and hunters as members. There has to be a reason for this.
Caldoc
I suspect it's because the vast majority don't own weapons that have been targeted by bans and confiscations yet. So, they figure they'll sit idly by on the sidelines letting other pull their weight. The Brady Bunch has started talking about "sniper rifles" now... They're after .30-30's for pete's sake. They're talking about bans of rifles that are so accurate they can hit "within millimeters at distances over 100 meters." Come on. That's every hunting rifle on the market. But don't worry. You can sit back and let others do the work.