NRA, and wasted membership dues

[Master Blaster]

The most important thing the NRA does is promote the shooting sports. NRA affiliated clubs hold training and events for non shooters and teach folks about gun ownership. The NRA provides funding and organization for competitions like Camp Perry, and Registered trap and Skeet and Shooting USA (olympic and international ). NRA certified instructors run the ranges at Boy Scout camps, and other day and overnight camps. NRA instructors provide training and opportunities to try shooting for youth and adults who would other wise only know what they read and see in the media and movies. These efforts teach gun safety and bring new shooters into the sport so it does not die out. NRA certified instructors provide training for law enforcement and staffing for local commercial and public ranges.

Are you involved in your local club?

The NRA does much more than send out junk mail and solicit contributions. Folks who are not members and not involved would not know that.

Please join and become involved in an NRA affiliated club.

 

[Gaffer]

At one time I was on the board of a state sportsman's organization and asked the question as to why we send out so much mail for fund raising and other uses. I was told emphatically that the first time it failed to pay for itself it would stop. Just because you feel it is a waste of funds is not the reality at all. Just because you are a tightwad and a curmudgeon does not mean that everyone is.

Face it the NRA and similar organizations are a business and they do what makes them money and don't do what is a loss. I have disagreed with the NRA many times but they are the loudest and most effective voice we gun owners have. Are they right 100% of the time, no, but they are enough and powerful enough that we still enjoy our freedom to own guns.

Our local club would not have a very successful Junior Rifle program with out the money the NRA has given us to buy target rifles and other shooting gear.

 

[Al Thompson]

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