View Poll Results: Do you belong to the NRA?
Yes
34
60.71%
No
10
17.86%
I did in the past but let my membership expire.
12
21.43%
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Do you belong to the NRA?
08-24-2009, 02:45 AM
#21
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pa.
Posts: 1,062
The NRA scammed me too. I belonged for 30 yrs. I got the video scam too, then 2 yrs later they took my membership dues and gave them to the ILA. Even calling them on the phone several times they would not put the money back to my membership.
08-24-2009, 03:54 AM
#22
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Westmoreland County PA.
Posts: 735
After a long time membership,I quit for awhile for the same reasons Windwalker and Denny already expressed. Unwanted books in the mail and receiving phone calls,four to five days a week!
But, with the growing # 's of idiots trying to take my guns,I renewed my membership.
But, with the growing # 's of idiots trying to take my guns,I renewed my membership.
08-24-2009, 06:10 AM
#23
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Adirondacks
Posts: 1,305
If you do belong to the NRA, do you ever donate any of your money when they ask for it? Do you ever make donations to the NRA-ILA or the NRA political vicory fund?
I will confirm that I am a Life NRA member and that I do make donations to both of these organizations within the NRA.
I will confirm that I am a Life NRA member and that I do make donations to both of these organizations within the NRA.
08-24-2009, 09:05 AM
#25
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 1,862
The NRA tries to portray itself as the voice of gun owners and hunters, but the reality is that NRA members are still a minority among both gun owners and hunters. There are what about 4 million NRA members or so? There are way MORE gun owners and hunters out there than this number. Many will never join because they don't exactly care for their rhetoric or tactics.
08-25-2009, 04:24 AM
#27
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Carbon County Pa.
Posts: 601
The NRA tries to portray itself as the voice of gun owners and hunters, but the reality is that NRA members are still a minority among both gun owners and hunters. There are what about 4 million NRA members or so? There are way MORE gun owners and hunters out there than this number. Many will never join because they don't exactly care for their rhetoric or tactics.
08-25-2009, 04:41 AM
#28
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 1,862
And the 4 million or so members pick up the slack for the rest of them. You may not like their rhetoric or tatics but the bottom line they are the ones with the muscle to stop the anti second ammendment crowd. I am not going to play nice if someone breaks in my home and takes something, and I am not going to play nice when someone trys to take away a constitutional right.
08-25-2009, 06:14 AM
#29
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Adirondacks
Posts: 1,305
Maybe so, but my main point here is that maybe the gun owners and hunters who don't join the NRA just don't see the gun issue with the same level of importance. Most NRA members probably see the 2nd amendment as their most cherished right. Other gun owners and hunters probably don't or just have other things that are more important to them to worry about. Besides, there are more hunting opportunities throughout this country than there ever were. Hunters are needed and many states are trying real hard to keep hunters hunting and trying to recruit young hunters for the future. What exactly will hunters hunt with if hunting guns get outlawed like some people think will happen? Surely bowhunting only won't be able to control game populations as well as gun hunting? I think a good many hunters realize that it is far fetched that hunting guns will be banned anytime soon, thus they don't feel the need to join a group like the NRA. They maybe wrong in their thinking, but as of yet they still have their guns and many don't feel that it's only due to the NRA that they still do.
08-25-2009, 06:35 AM
#30
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Carbon County Pa.
Posts: 601
Maybe so, but my main point here is that maybe the gun owners and hunters who don't join the NRA just don't see the gun issue with the same level of importance. Most NRA members probably see the 2nd amendment as their most cherished right. Other gun owners and hunters probably don't or just have other things that are more important to them to worry about. Besides, there are more hunting opportunities throughout this country than there ever were. Hunters are needed and many states are trying real hard to keep hunters hunting and trying to recruit young hunters for the future. What exactly will hunters hunt with if hunting guns get outlawed like some people think will happen? Surely bowhunting only won't be able to control game populations as well as gun hunting? I think a good many hunters realize that it is far fetched that hunting guns will be banned anytime soon, thus they don't feel the need to join a group like the NRA. They maybe wrong in their thinking, but as of yet they still have their guns and many don't feel that it's only due to the NRA that they still do.