How anti-gun is AARP ?

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I got an application in the mail today from the AARP, because I just turned 50 in March. I am going to send it back to them and tell them I will never join their association because of their anti-gun propaganda. Does anyone have any info or facts on their anti-gun tactics? I need some info to put in my response to them. Thanks
 
They are on record as supporting the BRady bill and assault weapons ban. I saw a copy of a letter from them to this effect once, but cannot remember who it was addressing.
 
The membership is across the spectrum on the issue of gun control. A cross section of the population; just older.

The administration and lobbyists for AARP are anti-gun.

The membership ignores this because of the cheap insurance and the motel/hotel discounts.

Art
 
if you do some research on AARP

I think you will find that its history includes roughly the following:

1. It was originally started by the Insurance Industry--I think along the lines of an AAA-type 'support group.'

2. I think the board still contains a number of insurance industry executives.

My elderly mother 'belonged' for a number of years--and on several occasions, there were firearms editorials that would basically reflect the insurance industry attitudes--the last one I remember reading essentially pointed out the wisdom of NOT protecting oneself and just going along with the (assault), not keeping guns in the home, and generally limiting your exposure to danger. IOW, Insurance industry perspectives.

I'll never belong to it until I see something that indicates they are truly an independent non-profit.
 
I don't ever join organizations that practice anti-Second Amendment bigotry. I send back one or two pieces of junk mail a month from that bunch with an explanation. They can't be very smart, or they'd have detected a pattern several years ago.
 
The membership ignores this because of the cheap insurance and the motel/hotel discounts.
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There is an old Irish legend that the devil will only come into your home if you invite him.
 
no offense to old people who are members, but the AARP is a union for old people. Same politics at work. Unions and the AARP both want to use the guiding hand of government to take from some and give to themselves. Don't support socialism voluntarily. Oh, and they are also big time antigun.

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If you are persistent, you can get them to take your name off their mailing lists. Took 3 tries; I've had one thing from them, just recently, in the last 3 years.

Their anti-gun position used to be available on their website, but thoroughly buried. I believe they have taken that down, but I haven't looked in a long time.
 
I was a member for five or six years. All I ever got from them was a
never ending stream of junk mail selling one thing or another. Plus
their anti-gun editorials. Told them to go away. Still get the occasional
"we miss you" letter. I don't bother to respond, doubt if anyone reads them.

allan
 
Question is, how did they know your age? Does anyone here have a guess as to the source they use to gather their mailing list?
 
I've been getting applications from them for a few years now and I'm nowhere near 50. Due to their anti- stance, I let them waste their money on postage instead of getting off the list. I have no intention of joining when I do get old enough.
 
I think they have access to Social Security demographics (not numbers, but names, ages, addresses as an "advocacy group" provifding "services" to a "victim class" (i.e. older people.)

The first time they wrote me I used their reply envelope to thank them for reminding me to send a donation to NRA-ILA and to please keep doing so, as they would never see a dime of my money themselves.

Haven't heard from them in a while now :evil: :neener: :cool:
 
On their web site you can read their 'public policy' adgenda. Lots of stuff to keep you awake at night.

Oh, yeah, VERY anti-constitution.
 
My father-in-law dropped his memebership when he found out about their
Anti-2nd stand. He sent them a nice LONG letter about why he was
dropping out. Had himself removed from their mailing list and that was the
end of it. My parents have not joined because of AARP's Anti stance.
 
I borrowed a line from a THR member (Standing Wolf, I think), and boldly wrote accross one of the applications (In Jumbo red Sharpie)

"I WILL NOT EVER CONDUCT BUSINESS WITH ANTI-SECOND AMENDMENT BIGOTS! ! ! "

Nothing else from them in a year, untill a couple of weeks ago, they started sending stuff to Mrs. Foggy. Returned that app marked in the same way.
 
You can get many of the same discounts with a AAA membership. By joining AARP, even if you just want the discounts and are pro-2nd, you give them and their message undeserved credibility, which allows them to make the false claim that their membership is anti-gun.

Let's not even consider how they support legislation to shake down younger workers to pay for US Govt.-supplied freebies to retirees.
 
My grandfather was a member of AARP for a couple of years until he learned about their leftist stance on practically anything. He immediately dropped his membership.
 
AARP vs. NRA

For what its worth, the your NRA membership also qualifies you for discounts on car rental, motels, etc. Look over your membership benefits folder. I'd much rather use that discount code (which is tracked by the companies in question) than ever take one for being an AARP member. You might not get as large of a discount, but that's only because not enough of us use it! The more people use the discount, the bigger the discount. There's strengh in numbers!!!!
 
I've been trying for several years, without success, to get taken off their mailing list. The first two or three solicitaitons I got, I sent back a letter saying their philosophy regarding firearms was inconsistent with my beliefs, and that I was donating the equivalent of their membership cost to the NRA. Didn't work - I still get their junk, which goes into the trash unopened.
 
no offense to old people who are members, but the AARP is a union for old people. Same politics at work. Unions and the AARP both want to use the guiding hand of government to take from some and give to themselves. Don't support socialism voluntarily. Oh, and they are also big time antigun.
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No offense, nor any intention to highjack the thread, but there is nothing wrong with organization. Corporations are organized capital. Unions are organized labor. The AARP is organized lobbying and is no more inherently socialist than the NRA.
 
I've been getting applications from them for a few years now and I'm nowhere near 50. Due to their anti- stance, I let them waste their money on postage instead of getting off the list. I have no intention of joining when I do get old enough.
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