Please be careful of what Ammoland and Narwatch put out until you investigate who's running them.
The lawsuit at NRA Watch reads the same as the one on the DC attorney generals website.
My beef with the NRA is that when I have renewed it has thoughtfully been for a nice five-year term.
Within six months the breathless "URGENT - YOUR NRA MEMBERSHIP IS EXPIRING!" letters commence.
That makes decent and honest people feel if NRA cannot be honest with simple stuff they are compromised.
The wise and pragmatic technique would be to simply ask for financial contribution or scheduled giving.
I find it amazing that so many are paying dues just a year at a time!
The NRA has specials all the time, about 20 years or a bit longer ago I bought my Life Time Membership for $300 … regular price at that time was $700, so it just made good sense.
The range I belong to gets our insurance from the NRA so membership is required anyway.
i became an NRA life member in 1960. For over 50 years i contributed until it hurt. My contributions were reduced after Wayne La Pierre took the NRA into partisan politics and began whining and railing about stuff outside the NRA charter. My contributions ceased after 2019 NRA convention: They may resume after WLP is canned. the bylaws revamped and the current BOD gone; but not until.
i've followed the now blazing NRA dumpster fire since the first wisp of smoke appeared. Josh Powell and WLP are cut from the same piece of soiled cloth.
On 2 May, 2022 the NY attorney general filed the Second Amended Complaint against the NRA. This complaint is updated to include the dirty NRA laundry exposed during the phony bankruptcy that cost NRA members $20 million dollars.
Read the Causes of Actions beginning on page 163. You can't make this stuff up:
NYAG2ndAmendedComplaint.pdf (firearmscoalition.org)
The trial will likely begin in summer, 2023.
The NRA sponsors our youth activities at the range by paying for the guns & ammo for all the events we have. So your membership dollars not only pay for Mr. LaPierre's suits they pay to teach our youth to shoot & to be safe handling guns.
When you figure the price of 10 or 20 suits compared to the price of preventing one child having an accident with a gun. I would say let LaPierre to have all the suits he wants just teach the children to properly handle guns, so they don't have accidents or worse yet become anti-gunners.
Have you read that document; we are so far beyond suit's.
I guess some organizations are using that practice to collect the money earlier. AARP starts dunning me around May or June trying to collect next years' dues by a similar tactic.
These merchandising tactics almost seem to run like fads. The latest ploy in merchandising seems to be "threatening" that the company is going under or otherwise shutting down and once the inventory is gone you'll be SOL, you poor slob.
Due to covid and supply problems and so on and so forth. The covid excuse has become a mantra, like "computer error" used to be.
Buy now!
People hsve to learn to "catch on": to these things. I'm not sure any of it is actually "dishonest," but are really just merchandising fads.
Thank goodness the fad of using cutesey animal mascots seems to be fading... I guess we'll see. That really irks me. Geico (Government Employees Insurance Company) is kind of forgivable with their stupid gecko mascot, so I'll give them a pass.
Observing the advertising industry can be highly entertaining.
Terry, 230RN
The NRA sponsors our youth activities at the range by paying for the guns & ammo for all the events we have. So your membership dollars not only pay for Mr. LaPierre's suits they pay to teach our youth to shoot & to be safe handling guns.
Personally I am always amazed that NRA members and Pew Warmers are members of AARP.
What is one child's life worth??
"It's for THE CHILDREN!"What is one child's life worth??