NRA Benefits?

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Let me start with saying I am all for taking a very pro 2A stance.

About 20 years ago I was an NRA member for several years, at the time money was tight, I had lots of debt from starting a business, family expenses, etc. I felt it was important to be an NRA member, until they kept calling me over and over again asking for more money to fight this bill or that bill. When their telemarketers told me on multiple occasions that being a base level member was a liability to the NRA as I cost them more money than I gave, I told them I could easily solve that problem. I have not been an NRA member since.
 
I love some of the NRA e-mails that I get. Example: If I stop getting the paper edition of "American Rifleman" and take the electronic edition, the NRA can devote more money to defending my Second Amendment rights. My response: Cut Wayne LaPierre's million-dollar plus salary/benefit package in half and that's $500,000 more available to defend my rights.
 
All,
I recently decided that all my shooting buddies MUST be NRA members to continue shooting with me. Sadly, I'm getting resistance. I'm seeking to compile a list of all the good things that the NRA does both for us as individuals and for clubs. Can you guys supply some benefits I can add to my compilation?

Thanks!
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some benefits of joining the NRA:

1. all the junk mail you want, free of charge.
2. free schwag, like useless decorative Bowie knives and nylon gym bags, made in sweatshops in China.
3. having your rights compromised away by a group whose interest is making money.

your buddies should start looking for a new buddy.
 
I politely requested the NRA not to be called or mailed, and they've honored my request.
 
Some folks don't want to join your political cause org....they just want to shoot or hunt.
 
I'm seeking to compile a list of all the good things that the NRA does both for us as individuals and for clubs.
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The search function is your friend. This question comes up with remarkable frequency.

There are NRA people who alienate potential members, and life members like me, with for example a magazine filled with offers for collectible (?) John Wayne dinner plates and shiny watches.

Then there is the ILA branch, which has real clout on Capitol Hill, and which is playing the game as it is played: Get what legislative and judicial advantage you can when you can. Some people call them capitulating pansies, but they have been somewhere near every gain (and sometimes limited our losses too, that's important) in the last decades.

Some shooters do not want to belong to the NRA. The reasons are often enough rehearsed here to need no recapitulation. But: You can send money to the ILA without joining the NRA. That's my pitch.
 
Kendal Black said:
The search function is your friend. This question comes up with remarkable frequency.

There are NRA people who alienate potential members, and life members like me, with for example a magazine filled with offers for collectible (?) John Wayne dinner plates and shiny watches.

Then there is the ILA branch, which has real clout on Capitol Hill, and which is playing the game as it is played: Get what legislative and judicial advantage you can when you can. Some people call them capitulating pansies, but they have been somewhere near every gain (and sometimes limited our losses too, that's important) in the last decades.

Some shooters do not want to belong to the NRA. The reasons are often enough rehearsed here to need no recapitulation. But: You can send money to the ILA without joining the NRA. That's my pitch.
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That is actually close to the approach I take. I become an associate member ($10 per year/no magazine) and donate the balance of a full NRA membership to the ILA.

I figure the NRA proper needs numbers to show legislators, but the ILA does the real work.
 
Friends do not force friends to do things they don't want to do.

That said, I am an NRA member, but not a big fan of some of the compromises they've made in the past, compromises that I feel weren't worth the benefit provided from the situation in some cases. However, they're better than the fragmented crapfest we'd have otherwise.

That said, I understand why some would rather not be part of it.
 
i think if you inadvertently shoot a toe off, the NRA gives you a grand or something

i got the free membership with no benefits only because they do send you a card that sometimes gets you discounts at cabelas. yes, i have selfish reasons :evil:



i have no interest in paying for an NRA membership. i just haven't seen them do anything major for the 2nd amendment that impressed me. don't need a free hat or coffee mug made in china either.

the telemarketing calls are kinda annoying too lol
 
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I recommend the GOA. I'm not a member(just not a joiner for the most part) but I do send them money on occasion.
 
I recently decided that all my shooting buddies MUST be NRA members to continue shooting with me.
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Sadly, I'm getting resistance.
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Gee, why would anyone resist your demands for them to do something they don't want to just to preserve the no doubt incredible privilege of hanging out with you? :rolleyes:
 
What did we do wrong??

@ post#8: I missed the part where the NRA came close to preventing "Obla-bla"from winning the election(?), and its relationship to your friends' membership in NRA. Additionally, do we have credible evidence of NRA gun-insurance ever paying of a claim? Inquiring minds want to know.
 
I think a subtext, not stated, is some people don't want to be put on a list. Any list. It might be inconvenient later. And, yes, the NRA membership roll is a list. Some hypothetical tyranny might come along and round us all up.

Some have the same reason for not getting the CCW permit.

Not sure the logic holds up. Few rights have been lost in history due to an overage of zeal for them. Indeed, I cannot think of an example.

Who are you afraid is watching you?
 
The real benefit to joining the NRA and similar groups is the continued right to keep and bear arms. If your friends don't get that then none of the other benefits are likely to sway them.
 
My feeling is the NRA does not need to give me benefits...
They do what needs to be done for our right to shoot and have our rights (2nd A) upheld and keep the left wingers honest:D

Benefits they offer, bring in others, who are not as dedicated...

If your friends don't want to belong :(

Regards
 
I would really like to speak my mind about those of you who are not with the NRA, but it would not be considered "high road" to do so.
 
Well right now tha NRA is filing a lawsuit against my home state of Illinois. Here's the first link I could find.

http://www.centralillinoisnewscenter.com/news/local/NRA-Files-Lawsuit-Against-Illinois-121816784.html

In addition to this the NRA is a large Lobbyist in American congress. They have a large influence on gun related bills. Now on the other hand I think its rather sad that such a "free" country needs groups like this. I'm sure if the fed government had their way they would ban all firearms. If that unfortunate plan would ever come to fruition what would the NRA do then. Moreover what would "WE THE PEOPLE" do then?
 
Well, I was the recipient of an NRA benefit last month. I had a burglary in February where nine pistols were taken with a value of about $6000 plus some mags and ammo. My HO policy will only pay $3000 on guns and gun related items. After I received the $3000, I filed a claim with the NRA carrier. I received a check for $2200 in about three weeks. I'm taking out a $10,000 policy with them for the future.
 
Without the NRA we would not have the gun rights we have. However, I don't accept as friends those who would put such requirements on me. It is not a moral issue, but just to force membership in an admittedly good organization.

I would shoot alone before I would accept someone to dictate to me what organizations I must belong to.

Regards,
Jerry
 
Some shooting clubs require NRA membership as a prerequisite for club membership.

Private club, private rules. It's their business. As I suggested above, you can donate to the ILA even if you are not an NRA member. Anyone can see the sense of doing that, surely.

Personally, I dug into the old pockets and ponied up the Life Membership fee during the run-up to the Clinton gun ban. I got mad enough to put my money where my mouth is.

Sell a couple guns and buy into the NRA. In the long run, it will do you more good than the spare guns.

The card is good for a discount at certain hotels, car rental agencies and gun stores. You won't get your money back that way, but what the heck. It's fun checking into some hotel in liberal country and asking loudly for the "National Rifle Association Discount."
 
Well, I was the recipient of an NRA benefit last month. I had a burglary in February where nine pistols were taken with a value of about $6000 plus some mags and ammo. My HO policy will only pay $3000 on guns and gun related items. After I received the $3000, I filed a claim with the NRA carrier. I received a check for $2200 in about three weeks. I'm taking out a $10,000 policy with them for the future.
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what was the name of that carrier? thanx :)

(i'm looking for a good insurance carrier for a relative that collects guns)
 
2nd on the endless flow of junk mail and spam you're buddies can expect to receive.

Oh, and the 'free' gifts they send and want you to pay for or mail them back...on YOUR dime!

Last year was my last year with the NRA and AAA.
 
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