NRA life membership for 600 bux..

I would join the NRA again but they were sending me at least 20 mailings a month for me to extend my membership or for more money. Now don't get me wrong they do some good the last straw was when I renewed and they called at least 10 times for me to renew which I told them I had and the calls kept coming. I finaly told them one more call and I would never renew again. The next day I got not one but 3 calls. If they use as much time and funds to fight anti gun stuff as they do to ask for more and more money I would join up again JMHO.

dogma512

I don't think they are sending the $400.00 discount check to every member.
Call them at their VA HQ(1-877-NRA-2000)or email:
http://www.NRA.org
and request the extended pay option.

I expect to be respected enough not to be called a freeloader, or part of the problem. Hell, if nothing else IGNORE ME if what I have to say isn't what you want to hear. But to call someone things like that when you don't even know them, or ANYTHING about what they do to help the RKBA, is ignorant, insulting, and pointless. If you read my comment, I made a point to not go into why or why not I was a fan of the NRA. I did so out of a respect for those who are, and because I didn't want to start some pointless go-around. And you see where that got me. Sure, it may not have been on topic, or ultmately very helpful, but it doesn't deserve to be responded to the way it has been.

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Sure, but you still came into a discussion about NRA membership discounts and whether intentionally or not tried to turn it into a discussion about why you don't like the NRA. Saying "well you could have ignored me" after the fact is just a cop out, as people don't normally involve themselves in conversations with the intention of being ignored, rather with the intention of being heard. Your initial post added nothing useful to the discussion as it was. Those of use who are or are considering becoming life members of the NRA would like to continue on with the original topic of the discussion.

I know quite a few people don't agree with the NRA 100% of the time, enough to not consider membership. But I believe that this is the cause of the NRA's tendency to compromise. With only 4 million members (in a good year), they only comprise at most 5% of all the gun owners and pro-gun citizens of this country. Thats what allows the opposition to marginalize the NRA as a group of extremists in the eyes of the general population. So called extremists with so called extremist demands can't do much to change the tide against them. Now we all know we're not really extremists, and we shouldn't have to compromise to gain what we rightfully deserve. But in the real world we have to. If the NRA's membership was even 1/2 of the current gun owners in the US, I guarantee you the NRA's way of doing things would be different, since it would no longer be an "extremist" group, but in the mainstream, with much greater influence in politics.

Wife, myself, and our two sons all have Life memberships....there are those that help pull the wagon, then there are those who ride.

"If you read my comment"

We read it. That's why we were replying. Make sense?

John

I did extended pay

then I got an offer for that leather jacket and paid it off.
I get the catalouge and the freedom first and they never ever bug me for more money.

I wish they'd send me the $400 off coupon...

I might just live long enough to break even at that rate

"..there are those that help pull the wagon, then there are those who ride." Guess I need some help here - are NRA Life Members pullers or riders?

I'm a member, but my cost-benefit analysis tells me life membership doesn't offer much more than an ego trip. I spent the "extra" money supporting GOA, SAF and my state rifle association. I also regularly correspond with my Congresswoman and both of my Senators on gun issues. It takes more than a membership to get something done...........

I got the $400 credit. I'm gonna do it. Will I lose my right to gripe at the NRA if I commit for life? If so - I'm married, so I'm used to it.

If tomorrow they decided to endorse the semi-auto ban the monthly members have the option to stop paying dues causing the NRA to loose members, but the life members are stuck being used as a statistic of the NRA membership. I am a member of the NRA and renew at my local gun show every year for $25 along with getting into the gun show for free, which makes the value $20 per year.

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So, no one's going to hop in with an exposition of how members vote to elect the board? Are we all ignoring those ballots, and then complaining later, or what? The would be a sad situation.

kingpin008 said:

I will, when finances allow, be purchasing life memberships for my fiancee and I with another group. Which one hasn't been decided yet, but it will not be the NRA.

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Do whatever you want with your money.

Though, you may want to check and see if any of the other "groups" you have in mind have elected Boards and are accountable for the dollars you send them...unless you just feel like paying the ammo budget, rent, etc., of whoever cashes the check at one of these other "groups".

Hell, send me the money. I could write a few anti-NRA rants and spew some random stuff containing bizarro logic about random House and Senate bills and then e-mail them to you as a "press release".

Or, you know, you could just join the NRA and vote in a Board that represents your views about the "proper" path to supporting gun ownership. You could even run!

Lurp said:

If tomorrow they decided to endorse the semi-auto ban the monthly members have the option to stop paying dues causing the NRA to loose members, but the life members are stuck being used as a statistic of the NRA membership. I am a member of the NRA and renew at my local gun show every year for $25 along with getting into the gun show for free, which makes the value $20 per year.

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...Life Members are the ones that get to vote for the Board. The Board would be the ones that would have to "endorse the semi-auto ban". Then it would be up to Life Members to vote out the Board members that supported such a thing. The only reason to not be a Life Member is if you just want a nice magazine every month.

Life Members are the ones that get to vote for the Board. The Board would be the ones that would have to "endorse the semi-auto ban". Then it would be up to Life Members to vote out the Board members that supported such a thing. The only reason to not be a Life Member is if you just want a nice magazine every month.

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You don't have to be a Life Member to vote for the NRA Board of Directors.

Once you've had your regular membership for five consecutive years you also gain voting privileges.

Buying a Life Membership is the only way to vote before being a member for five years though.

Lurp said:

If tomorrow they decided to endorse the semi-auto ban the monthly members have the option to stop paying dues causing the NRA to loose members, but the life members are stuck being used as a statistic of the NRA membership. I am a member of the NRA and renew at my local gun show every year for $25 along with getting into the gun show for free, which makes the value $20 per year.

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I am curious. On what issues exactly has the NRA acted in a way that compromises the RKBA? I don't claim to be an expert, and I've only been a member for 13 years now (7 as a life member), but I just don't see it. Furthermore, if you are an NRA life member, and you get that pissed off at them (although I don't know why one would), I am sure that there exists a mechanism for resigning your membership; and if you resign your membership, then you can no longer be carried as an NRA statistic.

Now, it is possible that at the state and local level there are other organizations that are more effective than the NRA in supporting the RKBA at the state or local level. However, NOT ONE OF THEM will have any influence which can be brought to bear at either the national level, or at the level of a differing state. The RKBA is a national issue, not just a local one, and I have yet to hear of any organization which has the clout possessed by the NRA at the national level. Also, the membership of the NRA may comprise "only" 3-4 million people, but the spending power of the NRA far outstrips that of other organizations, and they can get more accomplished because of it. We are lucky if, in a national election, 45% of all eligible voters turn out. That is considered huge. But, I will bet that the percentage of eligible NRA members who vote is much higher because they are strongly motivated to protect the RKBA.

Additionally, the NRA performs an invaluable function as a clearing house for information, and that information reaches more than just the paid membership. I'm guessing that, in my personal circle of family and friends, fewer than half are NRA members. However, those of us who are members diligently share information relevant to protecting the RKBA with those who are not members, and this influences how those non-members vote AND to which RKBA causes they support financially. Thus, the influence of the NRA extends far beyond its paid membership, and that is invaluable in the cause of supporting our 2nd Amendment rights.

However, I think that comments to the effect that non-members are getting a free ride serve no purpose other than to insult the non-member and boost the ego of the person doing the insulting. Just because a firearms enthusiast is not a member doesn't mean that individual won't support the NRA's causes or donate to them, or at least act financially and with their votes in parallel with the NRA. After all, one doesn't have to be a Catholic to donate money to the Catholic Children's Fund or other charities which feed starving children, and at the end of the day, that particular agenda gets served.

Just my 2¢.

I got the leather coat.

Where's my coupon? I'll pony up for 40% off!

Otherwise it's year to year for me.