MagnumDweeb, Post 30...
I see how it could be read that way...
OK, thanks. My concern was that a new group would discourage Person X from joining the NRA and making it the 80
1-pound gorilla.
If I'm not mistaken (too lazy to check it) the cheapest NRA annual membership is $30 if you decide not to get the publications...? Or maybe that was $10?
This is meant to be for, say, several foks in a household who are members, so there is no need to receive multiple copies of the publications. Thus it swells the membership numbers, thereby making it the 80
2-pound gorilla.
I believe there's also a discount for military Service members.
Over the years I've noticed one of the single biggest objections besides that Person X doesn't agree 100% with the NRA (which is kind of silly), is the solicitations they send out in the mail.
Which is also kind of silly, 'cause you can opt out of getting those solicitations. (I'm a life member and a long time ago I "opted out" and almost never get anything besides the
American Rifleman every month.)
The main thing is to increase the raw membership numbers. Not "artificially," but actually.
After all, it has been joked that legislators can't read.... but they can count.
Terry