NRA-Hater Voicemail

Again People are NOT against the organization they are Unhappy the Management.

Please read the New York Law Suit; Mr. Lapierre answers the questions like he was William Jefferson Clinton.

i've been an NRA Life Member since 1960. For decades i contributed until it hurt. Then WLP took the NRA into political stuff not related to firearms, and i lightened my contributions. My contributions stopped after the dumpster fire began at the NRA convention in 2019. i might resume my contributions if WLP were to disappear along with the board of directors.

Send your money to the NRA, they need your donations, the lawyers that are costing $100,000 per day.

frogfurr said:

I read it because our phone rings off the hook with spam voicemail and found it disturbing that NRA hate voicemail has been added to this list. I'm not under duress. Maybe, if you need a little extra cash, you can join the NRA hate voicemail club. After all you seem to have no love of the NRA.

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And that’s why I got rid of our landline.

I found family and friends all called my cellphone, the only calls I was getting on the landline were requests for political donations, opinion polls, questionable charities, and wacko calls.

I felt I didn’t to support any of those at my expense.

Craig_VA said:

Both calls had Caller ID blocked.

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If I don’t know who it is, they must leave a message for me to return a call to them or they didn’t really want to talk to me.

Way too many people trying to peddle their scam to actually answer and announce my disinterest to them personally.

Mk-211 said:

Maybe they should explain that part of the organization is about fighting for people's rights. That and if the 2nd Amendment can be taken away, so can every other Amendment.

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The reason that's not successful is because people just don't believe it. And the only thing that's going to convince them is when the Second Amendment does go and every other right goes with it. Unfortunately, by then it will be too late

Craig_VA said:

I do not know if Android phones have this option, but on iPhones you can set them to check incoming caller numbers against your Contact list.
Settings>Phone>Silence Unknown Callers>[slide to ON]
If a number is not already in a Contact, the iPhone silences the call and sends it directly to voicemail. As you said, they have to leave a message if they really want me to talk to them.

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Android has the option.

It's been my experience that the second or third time the robo calls go to voicemail your number drops off the list

Night Rider said:

The reason that's not successful is because people just don't believe it.

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Actually, I think they don't believe it because the public school system hasn't taught American Civics and American History with any detail at all since the 1960's. Our kids and grandkids have never been taught to understand and respect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and how and why this beautiful country and its government came to be.

Poper said:

Actually, I think they don't believe it because the public school system hasn't taught American Civics and American History with any detail at all since the 1960's. Our kids and grandkids have never been taught to understand and respect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and how and why this beautiful country and its government came to be.

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WHY they don't believe it is irrelevant.

What's important is that they don't believe it and that the government is using that to their advantage.

This is political as hell but I'm going to say it anyway I've absolutely no hope for the future of America. I give our constitutional republic 20 years tops

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

History is scary, don't want our children being informed and upset!

Night Rider said:

WHY they don't believe it is irrelevant.

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I disagree. We absolutely need to remedy the situation (fix the WHY) so that the USA may have a future. If we do not remedy the situation, it will be lights out for freedom and liberty, for there is no where else on God's green Earth to go from here.
I have hope, but I also admit that hope is waning.

Pretty simple actually, they set up an account on a site much like this one. They then have access to any information in your profile, I've seen where a single post on another forum's marketplace that had been archived and was very old got me a rude phone call about the item I had sold (AR parts).

Craig_VA said:

Yesterday I received a couple of rather vile voicemail messages about my NRA affiliation and hoping for bad things for me and my family. Both calls had Caller ID blocked. I am a bit curious how these folks connected me to NRA and got my #, although I make no serious attempt to hide either. The callers never used my name, so the calls may have been blind-call spam. I am not feeling threatened by this silliness, just observng how emotionally unstable some folks are.
Has anyone else received such messages?

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just treat it like SPAM… with bacon and eggs and a side of “ Who Cares “

Don’t put anymore energy into it! lots of haters out there, out best bet is to ignore it

gobsauce said:

I'm not affiliated with the NRA, mostly because I never got around to it, but I am associated with being Pro 2-A.

My ex girlfriend and her friends, however? Oh boy.

I was getting gas when lo and behold, one of her friends recognized me. Maaaaaan, I just wanted gas.

She walks up and says "i bet you have a gun huh? I bet you're going to shoot me,etc etc etc." I don't even carry a gun in the car, i don't CC (even though incensed), I'm just an enthusiast like y'all. While I'm pumping, her friend walks out of the store, and throws her drink on my car. I just said "thanks for the carwash, the NRA approves" , got in my car and drove away.

They both said a few choice words, but I got harassed for liking guns.

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This is why they do this kind of thing. Because the last guy just walked away and let them off Scott free. Like you did. Now they will work the next guy a little harder and the next guy after him even more until they finally just FAAFO they finally pick just the right wrong guy.

Mk-211 said:

The only way to fix the NRA is for people to quit giving them money and walk away.

Once Wayne and the BoD are gone, the NRA can be rebuilt. Until the members are willing to do this, Wayne the dictator and his commie cronies will continue to destroy the NRA!

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However we can't, many of our clubs require the membership and they know it.

We live in an era of "professional" protestors that are funded by the likes of Soros and the titans of tech.

I think it's going to get a lot uglier. One more reason I like living in the woods and working for a private business with conservative owners and managers.

We make products for the defense industry every day and the idea of running away with our tail between our legs is antithetical to the owners ethics.

Craig_VA said:

Yesterday I received a couple of rather vile voicemail messages about my NRA affiliation and hoping for bad things for me and my family. Both calls had Caller ID blocked.

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Report the threatening call to law enforcement.

Jack Ryan said:

This is why they do this kind of thing. Because the last guy just walked away and let them off Scott free. Like you did. Now they will work the next guy a little harder and the next guy after him even more until they finally just FAAFO they finally pick just the right wrong guy.

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So what would you rather I do? Prove them right? I was taught long ago that PRO means Professional, Responsible Owner.

If I went off on them, had I given into their harassment, would that have made me Professional?

If I had pulled a gun, or anything at all, would that have made me Responsible?

Besides, my car smells like cherries now, which is alright because my car's red.

gobsauce said:

So what would you rather I do? Prove them right? I was taught long ago that PRO means Professional, Responsible Owner.

If I went off on them, had I given into their harassment, would that have made me Professional?

If I had pulled a gun, or anything at all, would that have made me Responsible?

Besides, my car smells like cherries now, which is alright because my car's red.

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Those are the only responses you could come up with to deal with a couple women and a cherry coke?

Jack Ryan said:

Those are the only responses you could come up with to deal with a couple women and a cherry coke?

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Answer the question, what would you have me do?

You think I care what they did? It was just annoying as hell. It was actually a cherry slushy, so she just wasted cash. Again, my trunk smells like the color of my car, so whatever.

No, of course not, it's what they wanted me to do. Wasn't much I was going to do, they were harassing me for the sake of doing it. Call the police? Over a slushy? I'd rather they finish that investigation down town. If they started harming my car, throwing rocks and all, yeah, something other than driving away.

But dude, they were throwing words at me. I had much worse done to me as a kid, I was beat as berated till it eventually stopped bothering me. This? This was childs play. They were acting like children.

I feel I did the right thing by not sinking to their level.

I haven't gotten any such calls. Of course, my personal phone is a cell phone and the area code on it I haven't lived in for two decades. So it's very convenient for screening people spoofing numbers using my area code, because I don't have any numbers of people from that area code any more.

If it's an unknown number, they can leave a message. If they don't leave a message, then it must not be very important.

If I answer a call from an unknown number, I never say anything...whoever is calling me has to speak first. Automated calls often wait for someone on the receiving end to speak, then the call gets shunted to a live person.

I never answer with clear affirmative answers, such as "yes". "Is this the head of the household?", a seeming innocent question gets responses like "who wants to know", "why are you calling", "could be", "she's not here at this time", etc. That's if I don't just hang up in the first place.


I can remember two threatening calls of the top of my head. One, especially hilarious, was one of those IRS scam calls saying I owned Uncle Sam money...hilarious, because it was to my work cell phone, which was a government phone, not my personal phone. I had been just hanging up on them for several days. Finally, at their last call, I said "Let me get this straight: Uncle Sam is calling a U.S. Government phone to tell Uncle Sam he owes Uncle Sam money, and if Uncle Sam doesn't pay Uncle Sam, then Uncle Sam is going to arrest Uncle Sam and take Uncle Sam to court and sue Uncle Sam until he pay's Uncle Sam the money Uncle Sam owes Uncle Sam? How's that work?"

No more IRS calls to that phone!

The other one I can recall actually had my stomach tied up in knots, but it wasn't because of the threats. It was a call "requesting" any information I had on the whereabouts of my ex-wife (by name) and any refusal to cooperate would result in criminal charges against me. This from a robo-caller. I hung up...and kept getting calls periodically. So I blocked that number...and the next 3 or 4 numbers used over the next few days. I knew were my ex was...but I had had nothing to do with her for more than 2 decades at that time and that's the way it needs to stay. And if I could find out were she way, anybody capable of levying charges against me certainly had the resources to find her themselves.


As for threats in person...if they're not a credible threat to my safety, then I walk The High Road. Their BS behavior isn't worth any legal hassle on my part. I refuse to take the bait.

Words are just... well, "words". Used to be an old saying about "Sticks and stones, etc...".
If you want to get into a verbal "battle of wits" with me sure, I'm your huckleberry.

But remember, don't get into a pissn' contest with an old guy who has prostate problems.

Craig_VA said:

Yesterday I received a couple of rather vile voicemail messages about my NRA affiliation and hoping for bad things for me and my family.

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If you feel the calls were threatening I would report it. While the number was blocked it's out there for investigation. Personally if I don't know a number I just let it go to voicemail. If I were to get anything threatning to me or my family I would report it. Wow, and they think the conservatives are psycho?

Ron

My cell phone has a message when the IRS fakers, car warranty bunch and other scammers call: "Scam likely".

I've never heard of anything like this. I would be more than happy to field such a conversation with a caller in person. The phone is so impersonal.